Whicker: Roger Mayweather, the original Mamba, was just as outspoken and lethal

Back when Kobe Bryant was dunking on 3-foot rims, Roger Mayweather was watching a nature special on TV and learning about the black mamba.
When the snake strikes, there’s no need to count to 10. Mayweather liked that, so he became the original “Black Mamba.”
His nickname would be upstaged, and so would his own surname, because nephew Floyd Mayweather Jr. came along to go 50-0. But in the ’80s, Roger brought honesty into the ring, the kind that reverberated all the way to