Roger Lee Trust "The Black Mamba" Mayweather

Curious to see what the scoring posse thinks of the Baltazar & Tyson decisions, which is the worse robbery. I can't decide; they're both awful, though.

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Minor retraction:

I cited the USBA title as his first in the professional ranks. This is technically not the case; he captured the vacant Nevada State 130 pound title versus Sparrow. When he fought Muñoz it was for his first title at national level or higher. Roger himself called it his first pro title during his "Ring Magazine: Best I Faced" interview - whether merely forgetting or intentionally disregarding the state belt - whence I duplicated that error.

 

No worries, man. I have utmost respect for you as part of the Classic forum posting gentry, and wouldn't figure that malicious derailment was your intent. Just didn't want your post to become a catalyst for the usual anti-Mayweathers pile-on that almost seems inevitable with threads on any of them. (and to reiterate for the benefit of yourself and omnibus/whoever missed in my OP my hope that focus could remain narrowly on Black Mamba, the fighter).

 

The first page - which is essentially one long post broken into 15 parts due to character limit constraints and media embed restrictions (five per submission) under Xenforo - might be longest-ever OP. By far.

It clocks in at 16,184 words (97,138 chars) - this blame fool IB went and wrote Infinite goddamn Jest about Roger Mayweather of all people! If you'd told me a few weeks ago that I'd spent my first week of COVID-19 isolation doing so in every waking hour not spent on classwork or parenting, I'd have popped an eyebrow for sure. I'd seen a number of his fights (although well after the fact, since they mostly happened in my early childhood and casual-fan adolescence - he, admittedly, didn't appear on my radar until the "most people DKSAB" era, when he was HBO's second most colorful trainer after Freddie Roach) and while they were decent enough watches and his style not offensive to my sensibilities, he certainly wouldn't have made a list of my favorite top forty of his era - nor was he someone it would've occurred to me to do a comprehensive retrospective on, prior to his passing. I needed something to sink myself into for that week, however, as on that same day he passed (3/17/20) we had to put my cat Midnight down, in a harrowing experience that involved her seizing violently in the car until we reached the veterinary hospital. In my numbness a few hours later I read the news about Roger - which didn't come as that big a surprise, given his long-deteriorating constitution - and saw an opportunity to both shed light on an underrated champion and preoccupy my brain from the anguish of idleness.

Needless to say, the "St. Patrick's Day" holiday is forever ruined for me (eh, no great loss; there are several other "excuses to get drunk" on the calendar: New Year's Eve, Cinco de Mayo, Thanksgiving... and those ones don't idealize the wholesale butchery of Eyrie pagans by Mc-Xtians, hardly something to be that chuffed about). It now carries the blot of mortality for me - and the date of Mayweather's death will always stick with me, if for no reason other than coinciding with my little furry companion's.

 

Ah yes, the Cool Kids' table™, where saying so much as a single non negative word about any Mayweather is utterly unfashionable.

 

(although tbf Roger does a fair amount of clinching in both of those fights - but neither is a particularly bad watch, I'd say ...right, @Inglis_1?)