Yes, he did, he was the lineal Super-Featherweight champion in the 80s.
Some might consider his win over Rene Arredondo worthy of also making him lineal champ at Light-Welter, following on from Arredondo's fights with Hamada, but personally I wouldn't say there was a lineal champion till JCC beat Mayweather as they were IMO the 2 best guys in the division at that time.
Even then you could even make an argument that it was the Taylor-Chavez fight that was the 'real' lineal championship fight.
Actually, the Mayweathers are much deeper than people realize. Roger was a champ for a little while there. JCC definately sparked him good. Take a look on you tube and there's a vid of the 2 rds that lasted.
Mayweather Sr gave SRL his first fight with a world champ. And he fought Marlon Starling.
Anyone realize ODLH beat up Jeff Mayweather in 4 rds in just his fourth fight?
Brandon Mayweather is Floyds youngest brother. He's getting started in the heavyweight ranks. Floyd Sr had him from another girlfriend on the side.
Adam Mayweather is Floyd's twin brother. He is very shy. He decided to switch to WWE wrestling because of a broken finger in his second fight. He is a cross dresser and has "tendencies."
For more about the mayweathers, just add some rep to my name and I'll dig up some more dirt on them.
"Floyd needs to inject Xylocaine into his balls to gain the courage to fight Pacquiao."
- and I quote from some random guy on the internet
Roger "Black Mamba" was a good fighter who was a legitimate champion. And Floyd Sr. got his career cut short but he was an average figther who could make some noise. He also started off training Chad Dawson. They were better fighters than they are trainers.
Roger was a very tough fighter who had a 59-13 record. He had heavy hands and had a ton of clean icings. He won the WBA Americas Light Welterweight Title, the WBC light welterweight title, the WBA World super featherweight title, the USBA lightweight title, and the WBC Continental Americas lightweight title.
He may be a blithering kook outside the ring, but he knows his boxing and has had great success with it. Numbers don't lie.
Jeff Mayweather went 32-19-5, but lost every time he stepped up.
Senor had a 29-6-1 mark, but did not come close to Roger's success.
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Roger Mayweather was a very good fighter. He gave a young Pernell Whittaker a very tough fight, beat Vinny Paz, and lasted with an up and coming Kostya Tszyu. He was the first man to go 12 rounds with him Roger at his best was as good as anyone. He also beat an incredibly tough fighter in Harold Brazier who was on a 20 fight win streak at the time.
Floyd Senior wasnt bad but his best fights were usually losing efforts. He was very game against Leonard and Starling.
Jeff was a solid veteran. He was pretty cagey but far from elite.
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Roger could fight,he just had a chin with the predictability of a jack in the box...still don't know how he made it 12 rounds with a streaking Tszyu.Could be caught ugly in the blink of an eye....Pineda,Pendleton,Lockridge,Lovato all one punch KO losses and Brazier all but had him Ko'd.He had one of the better straight right hands in his weight range when he was hot,and could starch or stun many,including Chavez for a moment......Jeff was somewhat a passive boring cutie who never found the next step up.
I've already answered that earlier, he's good, not great. My problem was you saying he wasn't much of a fighter, which just wasn't the case for anyone who's seen him.
Obviously as you haven't seen him fight you will go with the only one you've seen, but Mayweather-Chavez was the real lineal fight, the 2 best guys going at it. Although more knowledgable posters than myself have said it should have been the Arredondo-Hamada second fight, & the lineage goes from there.
I have seen a few of his fight, and in relation to my first statement about him I admit I was comparing the other mayweathers to floyd jr. Roger of all the other mayweather besides floyd jr, is an accomplish fighter but is far from great compare to floyd jr.
I forget sometimes it can be very sensitive around here, i should of worded my sentence better.
Back to the topic,...right you did say the Mayweathers are good trainers but not great.
Thats because so many people judge a trainer by the fighter he currently has...
A good example of an over rated trainer is Emmanual Steward....What was the last fighter he actually had from the ground up? Hearns I think
Yet he is given credit for being a trainer of so many world champions....Most of the guys he has trained in the last 10 years had all the goods he just tweaked them a bit....Not to say anything bad about him because I think the guy is a great trainer but guys like Lewis, Taylor etc would have been a world champion regardless..
Same thing with the Mayweathers....Ask some people and you would think that Floyd SR built DLH yet Oscar was a multi division before Sr ever became involved....Roger is not solely responsible for PBF becoming the fighter he is today
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