Shane Mosley: "Based On Styles Margarito Is An Easier Fight Than Berto"

Margarito will be there for Shane. He will be right there. He has a chance if he can put in one last great effort.

 

Mosley looks like a Trex. He can't used that over steroided arm. His punches and swing looks like a weight lifter trying to box. Margo will win this by KO. Cotto was faster and better then Mosley.

I like Mosley but he is in the prime of his career. He's just not very good anymore. He hasn't looked good in a long long time and I just don't see him changing base on his last fight.

 

So are you picking Shane to win? And basing it on a funny feeling you can't even explain?:huh

 

He won't pick Shane. He'll play the hunch thing that way if Shane loses he has an out.

 

I can see his point about Margarito's style is very predictable and Berto's is a bit more methodical but physically the two are worlds apart and that's what Mosley should be concerned with.

 

Sounds more like "you hope" rather then intuition. You are very anti-Margarito, no matter how much you try to play the "unbiased and level headed role" here. It's OK to say you HOPE he loses.

I love Shane, and winning at this point would be HUGE for him. But he has shown more in his fights just how far regressed his talent and skill has gone.

He's a one punch at a time guy who throws what, maybe 30 punches a round in a good fight now? A new trainer isn't going to teach an old dog any new tricks. Shane fights how he fights. And its not with the confidence he used to. ot with the expolsion he used to.

I would love to be wrong here, but I just cannot see Shane changing his game or style right now. Not to mention I wonder how well his head is into this fight with more on the steroid scandal being uncovered.

 

Should we take into account how Clottey dominated Margarito before he got injured?

At this point I am leaning toward Margarito but Shane at long odds seems like a nice small bet. But the best bet is picking the winner, of course.

Margarito took an awful lot of shots from Cotto. I doubt he is shot though from that. Mosley couldn't get to Mayorga and was even losing rounds.

If Mosley couldn't find a way to easily take round after round against Mayorga, it seems he won't be able to do it against Margarito, who will bring a much more technical and focused attack (compared to Mayorga, that is).

But, he WAS nailing Mayorga in the fight, who can take an insane amount of punishment, even now.

And I always go back to Mosley / Vargas 2 and the KO punch.

One thing is this: Mayorga is the PERFECT tune up match for fighting Margarito.

 

Margo may win but mos def not a ko...

 

Moslel gets hit easy and tires in the late rnd. Margo will win by stoppage. Come rnd 8 and beyond you will see Margo punish Mosley.

 

You'd better hope Margarito wins. If he doesn't, it only diminishes your hero's only great accomplishment.

 

You cared enough to start a thread on it. You're the one that started this thread are you not? If you don't want the correlation to be made, then you should stop advertising yourself as Paul Williams number 1 fanboy and starting threads about why you "feel" Margarito will lose. The only fights I get the impression you want to see are one's that Paul Williams wins taking on top notch competition (which has yet to happen) and apparently fights that Margarito loses. I've never read one intelligent thing about style or technique from any of your posts.

The only honest word you wrote in your post is "might". As long as PW "might" do something you can say he'd beat King Kong. Its all "good for boxing" apparently until he actually does something. Yet the other guys you mentioned have fought many more top fighters than PW. Cotto has only had 6 fights at 147, yet has managed to fight more top ten welters and accomplish more at 147 than PW has in 20+ fights. Its not that it "might" happen. It has happened.