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Floyd Mayweather Jr. was near ringside, visible to the perceptive eyes catching his mug on the periphery of the television screen. A big fight was taking place in his adopted hometown of Las Vegas, and he was in attendance, ready, like most boxing fans were, to watch “The Mexican Assassin.”
Yet unless the Pretty Boy’s vision was hindered and his mind was gone, there was no way the three-division titlist could confuse the man in the ring, Manny Pacquiao, with the original owner of the nickname, Floyd’s uncle and trainer, Roger Mayweather.
Nonetheless, Floyd was present, as were 14,617 others at the Thomas & Mack Center, to watch Pacquiao and Morales, the latter a legendary Mexican champion, the former a budding Mexican Assassin.
Roger Mayweather had taken the “Mexican Assassin” moniker in the second half of the 1980s when – in-between stoppage losses to Julio Cesar Chavez – he had gone on a 13-2 streak, losing only to Freddie Pendleton and Pernell Whitaker, and knocking out upper-level contenders Rene Arredondo, Mauricio Aceves and Rodolfo Gonzalez, all three hailing from south of the border.
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Yet unless the Pretty Boy’s vision was hindered and his mind was gone, there was no way the three-division titlist could confuse the man in the ring, Manny Pacquiao, with the original owner of the nickname, Floyd’s uncle and trainer, Roger Mayweather.
Nonetheless, Floyd was present, as were 14,617 others at the Thomas & Mack Center, to watch Pacquiao and Morales, the latter a legendary Mexican champion, the former a budding Mexican Assassin.
Roger Mayweather had taken the “Mexican Assassin” moniker in the second half of the 1980s when – in-between stoppage losses to Julio Cesar Chavez – he had gone on a 13-2 streak, losing only to Freddie Pendleton and Pernell Whitaker, and knocking out upper-level contenders Rene Arredondo, Mauricio Aceves and Rodolfo Gonzalez, all three hailing from south of the border.
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