K.O.W. - Uncle Rog

This coming Saturday is Floyd Mayweather's birthday. To help the Pretty Boy celebrate (Lord knows Floyd needs help in the endeavor of celebrating himself) I thought I'd throw him a little K.O.W. love. But there's just not much to go with in terms of beautiful knockouts with Floyd. I thought of putting up the last two rounds of the Jesus Chavez fight, because it's an interesting war and there's a lot of give and take, but in that the Chavez corner stops it in between rounds, it's really not Knockout of the Week material.

But that got me thinking about another fight against a man named Chavez, this one involving The Black Mamba - a.k.a. Roger Mayweather, Floyd's uncle and trainer. Back in '85, he took on a 22-year-old budding Mexican star named Julio Cesar Chavez, who despite his age was already a veteran of 46 professional fights. The fight was for Chavez's WBC super featherweight belt. Mayweather looks lethal at first, dominating the action with his rattlesnake jab. Of course, as we would all learn over time, you had to hit Chavez about a thousand times with a telephone pole to hurt the guy. Uncle Rog gets caught with a couple of lunging rights in the second and the inevitable mosey down queer street ensues.

As a side note, check out the Mamba's legs. It's amazing the man can even hold himself upright.