You mayweather fans are adorable during build up.

I'm rooting for Shane.

He's pretty much the underdog, and I think that will spur him on more. Shane is fighting for glory. Floyd is fighting for the financial prize. I think glory provides more incentive for a guy who's coming to the end of his career and wants to go out in a blaze of glory.

War, Mosley!

 

Like it or not, respect him or not, he does deserve credit for taking this matchup with Mosley. And winning should definitely earn respect. You bring up The Ring magazine... the same magazine who has Pacquiao above Mayweather in the P4P rankings, right? Well this is the same guy (Mosley) who their supposed #1 fighter wanted nothing to do with.

Mosley, the #1 ranked welterweight in the world, was available to fight Pacquiao, who is also a welterweight (and "#1 P4P") and Pacquiao turned down the fight. Roach stated that A) the money's not there (and then turned around and fought Clottey, a nobody compared to Mosley) and B) Mosley is too good for Pacquiao.

So why shouldn't Mayweather get credit for beating Mosley, the #3 pound for pound fighter, and the man who Pacquiao's own trainer said was "too good" for Pacquiao (the #1 P4P fighter in the world)? It's ridiculous to say he shouldn't get credit or that Mosley is over the hill. Mayweather himself is past his physical prime, so that is not an excuse. That would be like Pacquiao beating Mayweather and everyone saying "Oh, Mayweather was over the hill, too old." It's ridiculous. Their age difference isn't big enough to matter and they're both past their physical prime.

As far as ring rust... tell Ray Leonard your ring rust excuse and he'll tell you to stfu.

 

Mosley looked old three years ago losing to Cotto ffs. He's nearly 40, which for someone fighting at 147 is REALLY old. I don't agree that he is p4p number 3 at all, although i understand people are going by the Ring rankings on this one (which is dodgy in itself given who owns the Ring and Mosley's prominent position in the company). Mayweather ought to win this fight pretty clearly. That's not to say that he doesn't deserve credit for the win, but i don't see this as an historic match up and i don't see it as a pick 'em fight. If Mayweather doesn't win convincingly all it will show is that, prime for prime, Mosley is the better fighter given that Mosley's prime was 8-10 years ago. And let's be honest, before Mayweather 'retired' fights against an undefeated Cotto, a non-exposed Marg, an emerging Williams and a 3 years younger Mosley would ALL have been better fights than this hype-job that's being served up on Saturday. All this fight shows is that Mayweather has missed the boat spectacularly in terms of building the kind of legacy he wants.

 

You call this fight a hype job? Yet this is what the fans want to see:huh

When mayweather fought Marquez and mosley stepped in the ring, every boxing fan wanted mayweather to accept mosley challenge and finally get it on. Now both men are entering the ring come May the 1st you have the cheek to pretend this is just a hype job?

Was Mosley v Margarito a hype job when Mosley knocked him out?