A few to add to the list: Tommy Hearns (sadly still active, and thus still not inducted) James Toney Joe Calzaghe Michael Moorer And yes, Mosley is a sure-fire hall of famer. The fringy guys are more like Castillo, Gatti, Marquez, Quartey, Tszyu, Hatton, Vasquez, etc.
Tzyu has a good shout, but Hatton? if he gets in any credibility in HOF has been firmly chucked out the window.
Who cares. Mosely should get in, Toney too. So should all the baseball players accused of using roids. I couldn't care less if these guys out that stuff in their bodies, that's their business.
There are fighters with worse resumes in the IBHOF. He has a better resume and was more beloved (by the general public rather than hardcore boxing fans) than Gatti, who will get strong consideration.
In no order Roy Jones Jr Joel Casamayor Oscar De La Hoya Shane Mosley Juan Manuel Marquez Manny Pacquiao Bernand Hopkins Glen Johnson Evander Holyfield Felix Trinidad Marco Antonio Barrera Erik Morales Kostya Tszyu Maybe's Antonio Tarver Cory Spinks Zab Judah Joe Calzaghe James Toney
Yeah but he has never actually beaten a prime P4Per, I don't count Castillo and Tzyu, and never had fights half as exciting as Gatti. Gatti still did the sport more service than Hatton.
I'd move Casamayor, Tszyu, Johnson and Marquez into the 'maybe' pile. They don't seem like sure things to me. Toney, however, seems like a completely sure thing. Judah doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell, and Tarver's chance probably flew out the window by losing the Dawson rematch.
Here's my take on that. Exactly what this **** does is unknown. MAYBE it allows them to recover better from injuries. But does it increase punching power? Technique? Make a good athlete out of some ordinary palooka? That seems to me to be, at best, debatable. Absent any quantitative, empirical verifiable EVIDENCE that someone like Mosley would have been an ordinary fighter without it, he has to be put in.