Koraun wrote a statement for the police in block letters: “I saw my dad was on my mom said go to the office he was hiting my mom.”

To extrapolate an indictment of boxing from the misdeeds of a single fighter is unfair. Boxing is a naturally brutal sport; not all pugilists are naturally brutal. Some are strikingly gentle outside of the ring, and most of those men appear to carry that manner behind the closed doors of family life too.

Pretty Boy is certifiably not such a man. You drive over to the Las Vegas Justice Court and rustle through the papers of the criminal charges placed against him, and soon enough you’ve got enough paper to stuff a file cabinet.

Let’s pull out one from August 2003, when Mayweather encountered two female friends of his girlfriend, Harris. In the argot of the criminal complaint, Mayweather “did unlawfully use force or violence” upon Kaara Blackburn “by punching said Blackburn.”

He did the same unto Herneatha McGill.

He pleaded guilty and got a suspended sentence in that one.

He’s not so terrific to men, either. Mayweather threatened one fellow that his “homies” would come over to take care of him. Mayweather was not being solicitous. His homies, he told this man, had guns.

Another fellow made the mistake of smack-talking with Mayweather in a nightclub on the Strip. Witnesses said the talk appeared friendly until it wasn’t. At this point, the man got “somewhat uncomfortable.”

With good reason, as it turned out. The man turned and began to walk away. Mayweather, according to the account of several witnesses, picked up a champagne bottle and brought it down on the back of the man’s head.