Still my favorite Mosley performance....He looked like superman vs Shannon Taylor [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Hc4GTyofA"]Shane Mosley vs Shannon Taylor - YouTube[/ame]
My favorite fighter of all time....Glad he is going out now. Hope he stays retired, bangs Bella and lives in peace. A fighter who will surely be remembered for many many decades and a HOF for sure. ATG lightweight also.
His first fight that I saw was the John Brown fight. Showed us what he can do and how he can adjust. Shane is really an underrated technician.
Watching this now! Damn was he good. I remember he used to do that hand rolling thing beautifully. A mesmerizing dance of deception! That knockdown on the end of the first was ****ing times beautifully!
Thing is Rummy,that this Mosley fight is underrated even amongst Mosley fans who never seem to mention it much, if at all......I have always championed this fight as Mosley's best performance, not best win obviously.
18:45 Larry Merchant's P4P Chart at that time (March 2001): 1. Mosley 2. Trinidad 3. Jones 4. Hopkins 5. Mayweather I remember a time where my list looked more or less the same except I think I actually had Hopkins in the lower half of my top 10, and perhaps Mayweather too. I remember having my top 3 like that. Without remembering the sequence and chronology of things, I imagine Barrera and/or Morales were highly rated by me around this time as well. Amazing to think two of those guys (at least for Hopkins until very recently) were arguably still in the top 5 10+ years later.
The last portion of the Diaz KO is mesmerizing. 1:13 in [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ooK1MJuMQ[/ame]
I remember watching this fight at the time, and I am very glad you posted this! :good I am enjoying this a great deal, and yes - Mosley was a ****ing athletic specimen at the time, and he was also at the peak of his confidence! I really forgot how awesome and deceptive his hand movement and feints were, and even though he was never a defensive wizard, he looks far more elusive than I recall too. Been a long ****ing time since I watched a peak 147 Mosley fight, and even though I had him #1 on my P4P list at the time, I still forgot just how athletic and skillful he was. The scariest thing is Vernon Forrest put quite a beating on effectively this very same version of Shane a few fights later. There is a reason that Mosley was a 7:1/8:1 betting favorite at the time, and it still amazes me to some extent what Forrest did to Shane. I may need to rewatch their fights in the next few days. Again, thanks for posting! Have enjoyed watching this, and was great seeing the shot of Lennox there in between rounds. :smoke
And I'll say another thing, it would have been interesting to see that version of Sugar Shane face the 2010 version of Floyd at welter. I'm not even saying anything about the outcome. I just think it would have been an interesting clash of styles between two guys at the peak of their physical abilities and talent.