Shane Mosley at Lightweight ...

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Asterion, Jan 3, 2008.


  1. Asterion

    Asterion Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He was impressive toe-to-toe. Looked like Roy Jones. He was young.

    Maybe the explanation is because his competition sucked?

    Philip Holiday, Shotgun Gomez, Wilfredo Ruiz, Golden Johnson, etc.

    He didn't fight Cesar Bazan, Stevie Johnston, etc.
     
  2. jc

    jc Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Instead he chose to go up 2 weight divisions and fight one of the best p4p if no THE best p4p at that time and won.

    He did look fantastic though, super quick with extremely heavy hands. Id pick a lightweight mosley over a likeweight mayweather anyday.
     
  3. Betty Swollocks

    Betty Swollocks James 'Lights Out' Toney Full Member

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  4. Boxer-puncher

    Boxer-puncher Active Member Full Member

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    Call me crazy but I might pick a lightweight mosley over the great Duran..
     
  5. FlatNose

    FlatNose Boxing Addict Full Member

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    As a Lightweight, Mosley was still in a development stage. While he looked like a player, he did not appear at the time to be the guy who wound up going back and forth between several of the top world P4P. He really hit the scene when DLH picked him for target practice , but Shane fooled everybody with the upset win.
     
  6. peter5

    peter5 Marco.A.Barrera Full Member

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    Never, Never I tell thee!!!!!!!!!!!:bbb
     
  7. john b

    john b EVERTON 0- OLdham 1 Full Member

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    Never saw mosely fight at lightweight was he that good?
     
  8. AliFrazier71

    AliFrazier71 Member Full Member

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    Mosley at lightweight was something else. Mosley at LW beats Castillo, Corrales, and Mayweather. I wouldn't go as far as saying he beats Duran though ;) .
     
  9. dave82

    dave82 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    You bet! He could do it all
     
  10. Circa

    Circa Skate And Destroy Full Member

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    he was a ****ing wrecking machine at lightweight
     
  11. Sweet Pea

    Sweet Pea Obsessed with Boxing banned

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    He was no different at all at LW than he was at WW, other than the fact that he was facing far inferior competition. He was stronger at WW as well.
     
  12. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    Your a clown.Seriously dude shut up.

    Number 1 he looked nothing like RJJ.He was an aggresive box puncher.RJJ was not he was a slick speer counter puncher who relied on reflex`s.Mosley offense wsa his defensive which truthly although grade A wasnt A star like Jones or PBF`s.He was willing to give one to take one.

    Mosley made 8 defences of the IBF.All by way of Knock out.He was beating guys like Ceballos, John Brown, Molina, Leija, and Eduardo Morales long before they became gatekeepers. His also ranked by the ring as one of the greatest lightweights of all time.
     
  13. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    Mosley was an animal.I dont know how he made 135 but he did.He used to come in as high as 159 for fights at 35 on fight night.He had an over 90% KO rate at 35.He hit to hard and was simply too fast.His speed like Floyds at the lower weights was insane.Duran would have had his hands full thats real.It would have been a great great war.
     
  14. Toopretty

    Toopretty Custom made Full Member

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    His speed was flashy arm punches. He was able to knock out those lower level lighter weight guys with good counter arm punches. But he was never good enough to beat Floyd at Lightweight.
     
  15. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Larry Merchant was real high on him early, but he looked overrated IMO. Proved the doubters wrong with the first de la Hoya fight, but then people went too over the top with him, and it all ended in tears in the Forrest fight. But to his credit Mosley rebounded big time from that, to prove Merchant right in the end.