The fact Mayweather is actually taking this fight my respect for him has now shot right back up. About time. Can't wait to see this fight.
I want Mosley to win but I think after a few rounds PBF will make him look old and slow. That Marg. fight was the perfect opportunity for Mosley to look like a a reborn superstar as Marg. was coming off a mutual beating with Cotto, then had a hard time conditioning, then got busted for the ultimate boxing sin right before the fight. On top of that, Mosley had physical advantages of speed and movement to begin with. Hope I'm wrong, but that Marg. fight was the perfect opportunity for Mosley to 'appear' to reestablish himself as prime.
ill say mayweather close but clear UD like oscar was , not same fight path im no saying that but same outcome , clear but close UD with some idiots proclaiming mosley won like they did with oscar
floyd will make shane like a ordinary fighter. shane was spectacular against margo because margo is forward fighter and doesnt move his head. margo has no movement at all. floyd is million times of margo as regards to skills and ring intelligence. no disrespect for shane he could have fought floyd when he's still in prime.
Ray Leonard approved of him having the same "Sugar" moniker after the first DLH fight so how much more approval could he get? Anywho I feel the same as I'm a fan of both but Shane is my idol. I'm just glad Floyd's first REAL challenge @ 147 is against my idol, im honored.
If he had went on to continue it would be different. The problem isn't that he lost, but that he couldn't get the victory on the rematches. If he had beaten Forrest in the second fight or even came back in the first fight to win or KO Forrest which would've been epic, it would've been different. That fight royally pissed me off. He could've won the second fight, but he just didn't press enough, the way he fought, was as if his body was still in shock, like the muscle memory was there and he just couldn't put his punches together when it mattered, or make the proper adjustments. The Winky fights were bad fights for him and came at a bad time.
this would have to be mayweather hardest fight, just because of the type of fighter shane is.i seen bigger boxers then him at there primes beating shane at 47 and 54 (vernon 2x & wright 2x).mayweather is just as good as a boxer as either of them but he's smaller, i think shane will be able to apply the type of smart agressive pressure no other boxer has been able to do since castillo. we all know that fight was yrs ago so i know mayweather has few more tricks up his sleeve to discourage that type of strategy.shane as problem with boxer that used there jab and right hand.those are the punches i have seen shane get hit with the most when he loss his 5 fights. good thing about mayweather style is he is a pure boxer, he going have to out box shane for 12rds.he want stop him or even hurt him i dont think, shane will not get hit with to many punches at one time with out landing 1 maybe 2 of his own.great fight im going with mayweather for a ud, if he losses i want be that surprised, a little bit but not that much.and i like shane so if my fav fighter has to lose to 2nd maybe 3rd fav fighter im ok with that. who ever wins it aint going to be easy, hopefully shane can help show the blind what mayweather is really made out of, and test me like no other fighter as before.
Well the Forrest rematch could've easily been a draw as either fighters didn't really do enough to really win. As for the Wright fights, both were good and Shane did improve in the rematch. Even a few times in the Forrest rematch he rushed him in the first round but throughout the fight was just too cautious for the right hand he got hit with in the first fight so he clinched alot. Hell he even did better than Tito did against Wright.
That's all well and good, but we are talking about a fighter who is supposed to be worthy of the title of Sugar. He should've beat Forrest in the rematch. No matter how I look at it, that fight will always stay in my mind. He was PEAK then and got dominated! What Sugar gets dominated IN THEIR PRIME? SRL loss to top 15 ATG Duran, and it wasn't a lopsided decision, but a close fight, but clear for Duran. He came back, clowned Duran, made him miss and quit. That was Shane's moment, in my mind, to show the real sugar in him. I can't get over that fight, no matter how I think of it. He was my favorite fighter then, but that was a huge loss, he got beat really bad.
Unless ur Leonard no Sugar accomplishes everything they want. Remember when Ray Robinson failed to get the Light Heavy title from Joey Maxim because of heat exhaustion? Does that make him anyless of a Sugar? No. I'm just happy Mosley fought them even though he didn't need to because they were bad matchups for him. That toke balls. He revived his career beating Vargas twice past prime or not and his victory over Marg which more than makes up for losing to Cotto. Even fighting all those fighters helps his resume plus adding Mayweather and his resume is not so bad. He even beat the guy who beat Forrest twice so that should help outweigh the Forrest losses.
Well Robinson is a different subject. Robinson already proved everything he needed by that point, after all he was the first sugar. He had already beaten many ATG's at Welter and Middle. Even though he loss that fight, he still dominated it until he nearly passed out due to the heat. He wasn't even prime at 160... Not saying Shane is not a tough guy, he took many chances at greatness, loss some and won some. Mayorga's best weight was welter, he was past it in the Shane fight, more than Shane was.
:deal Have to side with you but I think Shane is deserving of the Sugar moniker I mean win or loss the guy fought em all and is still kicking. Past prime or not Mayorga gave Shane a tough fight. Off topic but Hopkins did what Robinson couldn't and is the hardest worker and could give Shane really good advice. Getting with Brother Nazim was one of the smartest things Sugar Shane has done.
Shane wanted a big pay day and he got it. Deserved. He is a methusalem. Fact. Way to old now to be somehow competitive with Mayweather. FMJ movement, speed , straight right plus the neverending jab will be the nail in Mosleys coffin. Fact. He looked every bit his age in the Cotto and especially against the very limited Mayorga. As someone already pointed out he looked great against the no skill no movement no alternative fightplan " El handwrapo clubfightero" Margo. Mosley would do much better against Pac because he would get the opportunity to brawl and go toe to toe and tit for tat plus Pac ain't got no jab or right hand of significance. In any fight where his opponent moves and jabs and don't engage he is ****ed. Fact. BTW, if both really bloodtest for this fight then Pac is cornered if he wants a mega pay day against those guys in the future .