Floyd Mayweather put adopted son in chokehold during argument at Las Vegas home

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The 38-year-old pugilist allegedly strangled the teen boy he raised as his own at his massive Las Vegas mansion on Halloween night last year, according to a police report obtained by The Sun.

Devion Cromwell, 19, reported the incident after “Money” Mayweather held him in a “rear naked choke” during the Oct. 31, 2014, altercation. The teen is apparently reluctant to press battery charges against the flashy champ, who faces Pacquiao May 2 in a long-anticipated bout, because the fighter provides cash for Cromwell and his mom, Mayweather’s ex-girlfriend Melissa Brim.

Despite their rocky past, Cromwell, his mom and 14-year-old sister Iyanna, Mayweather’s daughter, live in a home owned by the boxer.

When the fighter showed up there unannounced last Halloween and ordered Cromwell’s friends out of the house, the teen yelled out, “You’re not my father!” according to The Sun.

That’s when the trained fighter flew into a rage and put on the wrestling hold, which involves “one arm encircled around the neck causing carotid and venous decompression and the other arm on the back of the head applying downward pressure,” according to the report.

Cromwell spoke to cops about the incident, as did the two witnesses, who backed up his account. But Cromwell has only until Oct. 31 of this year to make an official complaint and press charges, a Las Vegas police spokesman told The Sun.

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