Mosley's dire performance last night....your opinions please

First off, massive credit to Floyd for his dominating display last night. He really did turn in to the dragon Nazim was warning us about, and made Shane his ***** for 11 of the 12 rounds. But that honestly wasn’t what surprised me last night. Yes he was more aggressive than I anticipated, but I think that was due to one important thing...... how pathetic Shane was.

Floyd Senior hit the nail on the head when he described how Mosley tends to fight, and he only needed one word to use, "jittery". In other words - nervous, jumpy, not at ease, panicky etc. All terms that perfectly depicted the Shane performance we saw.

Right from the opening bell, he never looked like putting effective pressure on Floyd and making him feel the power and resistence of the powerful 147 he is/was supposed to be. Instead, he stayed in the centre of the ring bouncing on his toes hastily, shuddering his gloves indecisively, pawing with a pathetic jab, and completely failing to pull the trigger with his right hand. The worse thing was, he had his two moments in round 2 where he seriously rocked Floyd, but followed it up with f*ck all?! He almost puts Floyd on his butt (twice!), and it seemed as though he was immediately apologetic for doing so! As if to say “Oh **** sorry Floyd, I didn’t mean to hurt you with those right hands, I won’t do it again”. The dude showed Floyd too much respect, and never got his flow going. Furthermore, after those 2 rounds you can tell he was gassed! We all knew Mosley was going to struggle down the stretch, but after 2 rounds?

Maybe I’m being too harsh on him. After all, his 39 year old body did have a long layoff (17 months?) in which he was in and out of training camp, leading him to possibly over train. But still, for a man who’s as experienced as he is, I was pretty disappointed to see him in the dismal nervous state he was last night. I watched the fight on SkySports, so I didn’t quite get to hear the talk in Mosley’s corner until the latter rounds. But I did notice Nazim’s frustration in Shane’s inability to do jack ****.

And guys please, less of this ‘Mayweather the chicken **** once again fights a guy at the right time’. He wanted him back in 1999, and Shane’s lot wanted none of it. Again in mid 2000 Floyd called him out, and again Shane turned the other way. Now the first time Mosley does the calling out, (Mayweather accepts and beats him) all of a sudden it’s Mayweather’s fault for fighting him so late?

So yeah, rant over. I’d like to hear your opinions too on Shane’s performance, and where in my assessment you think I’ve gone wrong. Because it's only the day after, and I guess I'm still pissed/dissappointed in how Shane fought

 

See that's what I haven't decided on just yet (I'll need to review the fight again). Whether it was Floyd who made him look that awful, or whether it was Shane who allowed Floyd to do whatever he wanted. It's amazing when you think that lesser fighters such as Oscar, Hatton and Judah, put up a far better fight than Shane could. I would say that his effort last night in dealing with Foyd was on par with JMM's effort last September.

Now either Floyd has become a beast since his lay off, or those guys (JMM and Shane) just didn't bring enough to the table to even make it a close fight