Roger Mayweather was born on April 24, 1961. His name has become famous thanks to his great achievements in professional boxing. We will talk about the most interesting facts of Roger's biography in our article.
Childhood boxer
The future boxer was born in the city of Grand Rapids (Michigan) in the north of the USA. Roger is one of three Mayweather brothers who are also well known for their achievements in professional boxing. It should be noted that only the middle brother, Roger, managed to achieve the most significant success. The rest could not reach the main goal - to become world champions.
As Roger himself said, the craving for victory was present in him from early childhood. The future fighter never missed the opportunity to take part in a fight with his peers. Roger Mayweather put on real boxing gloves at the age of 8. Since then, this sporting attribute has always been with him.
First successes in boxing
Already at the age of 20, Roger embarked on the path of professional boxing. The first and successful debut of the young athlete took place in 1981, when he knocked out Puerto Rican Andrew in the ring. Ruiz. For Roger, this fight was one of the easiest, because in less than one round, the opponent ended up on the platform of the ring.
First championship belt
After his 13th professional fight, Roger Mayweather, whose photo you can see in our article, won the USBA lightweight title. After that, the boxer had two more fights. At the last, he knocked out Puerto Rican Samuel Serrano. With this fight, Roger won the WBA lightweight championship belt.
It should be said that Serrano had a good track record behind him - 15 victories in championship fights. But, unfortunately, he was powerless in front of Mayweather - a novice pro.
The next few fights Roger had also successfully. Panamanian Jorge Alvrado and Chilean Benedicto Villablanco did not have the strength to fight Mayweather's punches.
First defeat
The third defense of the championship title ended in defeat for Mayweather. Nobody expected such an outcome of the battle. Roger's rival was his compatriot Rocky Lockridge. It should be noted that the bookmakers did not predict victory for the latter - the stakes were 1:4.
The fight ended in the first round when Roger was de alt a surprise right hand. Mayweather had to be carried out of the ring.
Disease
Only later did it become known that Roger Mayweather was ill. Unfortunately, the illness of the Black Mamba (this is the pseudonym Mayweather took for himself for the ring) is known to many fighters firsthand. The fact,that the boxer has a weak jaw. Roger Mayweather, whose illness prevented him from successfully finishing many fights, then announced his main drawback to the whole world. It is worth saying that Mayweather did not have an athletic physique anyway. His body is rather thin, and his legs are long and thin. Mayweather's illness and physique forced the coach to develop a different fighting tactic, which was based on working as the second number from the distance.
By the way, his nephew Floyd Mayweather, the son of his older brother, became the embodiment of some of Roger's fighting manners. It should be noted that Floyd is much faster than his famous ancestor. The fact is that Roger in his work lacked the speed, reflexes and aggressiveness that are inherent in Floyd Jr. In general, the nephew of Mayweather-average took all the best from his relatives and left them (professionally) much further.
The story of Roger's nickname
We should talk separately about the nickname of the famous boxer. As Roger said in an interview, on the eve of the next fight, he watched a documentary about snakes. He focused his attention on the black mamba, which had lightning speed and was very aggressive.
After some thought, he decided to name himself as he found many similarities to this "interesting special wildlife".
Falling
After losing to Rocky Lockridge, Roger Mayweather, whose biography is full of interesting facts, decidedgo to light weight. But even there such a familiar … failure awaited him. In the next battle, he lost miserably to Tony B althazar.
The following fights ended on the same note. In the ring, he was knocked out thanks to a powerful blow from world champion Freddie Pendleton.
We should also talk about the fight for the WBC world title, in which Roger Mayweather also failed. Chavez Julio Cesar - that was the name of the next opponent of the Black Mamba. Unfortunately, already in the second round of the fight, Roger was destroyed in every sense of the word.
New rise
All subsequent fights Mayweather spent losing to his opponents. This difficult period continued until 1987. Then he knocked out the Mexican Rene Arredondo. After that, Mayweather ended 4 more fights with success, until the same Chavez met again on his way.
In 1989, already at the 10th round, Roger had to voluntarily end the fight, because the boxer could not withstand Chavez's signature blows.
After that, he failed to take away the champion's belt. In 1991, he lost to the Colombian Rafael Pineda, and in 1995 he was defeated by the Russian Kostya Dzyu, who, by the way, was only gaining momentum then. It seemed that in this fight he was not going to fight, but all the time he was trying to defend himself from the powerful blows of a young professional.
Calm
After that, Roger began to enter the ring less often - once a year. Twice he won victories over little-known and unremarkable boxers.
After the last success induel with the Mexican Mendes, Roger Mayweather decided to seriously engage in coaching. A young and promising Floyd Mayweather Jr. fell under his sight. By that time, the guy already had a good track record behind him. Roger was lucky - he began to train the already held world champion in the first lightweight.
It should be noted that Floyd's first mentor was his father, Floyd Mayweather Sr. In 2000, there was a huge scandal between the son and the father. As the young fighter said, he was tired of his father's eternal missteps.
Then Mayweather Sr. was actively involved in the transportation and sale of drugs, for which he was imprisoned more than once. After another trip to places not so remote, Floyd Jr. showed his father the door, taking expensive gifts from the old man.
By the way, the average Mayweather didn't like his brother either. Their strained relationship lasts from early childhood. According to the former boxer, the closest person to him is his younger brother (who trains the Russian fighter Sultan Ibragimov).
From that moment on, Roger took the helm of coaching. True, not everything went so smoothly here. During one of the fights of his ward, due to another trick, the Nevada Athletic Commission forbade the coach to be in the corner of the ring and fined the brawler $ 200 thousand. he nearly choked to death during an argument in a hotel room. Why the girl did not please him so much is not yet clear. But Mayweather is not out of this situation either.came out whole. The girl turned out to be a tough nut to crack and smashed her coach's head with a glass lamp.
It is not yet known what punishment Roger will suffer for this, because he was once already convicted of domestic violence.
