How Good is Shane against elite opposition

Well, let's look at the facts. Mosley never unified the belts and was never lineal champion after Sweet Pea vacated. He held one version of the Lightweight title and defended it 8 times against nobody particularly special. In fact, the calibre of competition he was fighting was actually worse than that of fighters who nowadays get routinely lambasted for their quality of opposition, e.g. Pavlik. Now, I'm not saying that he ducked anybody, or that there were fighters that he should have fought but didn't, or that he couldn't have been beating better competition had it been available; but the simple fact is that he didn't beat anybody that great. You can't rank a fighter on the basis of accomplishments that they never, well, accomplished.

Now, you tell me why you think Mosley deserves to be ranked in the top 10 over someone around the fringes like Buchanan, who has two away wins over Laguna and a KO of Ortiz to his name. Don't get me wrong: I'm a big Mosley fan and his ability was top-notch, but he just didn't do that much.

 

If you watch Shane against Mayorga, there is no way Shane will win against Floyd. Floyd will just run and let Shane throw in air until Shane will get dead tired, then Floyd will go for the kill. Kill - meaning he will box and jab, not KO.

 

I was talking about his career at 135. Above, he has wins over DLH, DLH, Vargas, Vargas, Margarito, who range from very good to ATG. As has been pointed out to you several times now and you seem to fail to grasp, these victories are indicative of an elite fighter. You can't just ignore them.