Why Mosley never became a PPV attraction

because he made some wrong choices

after a huge win over hoya he fought vernon ****in forrest, at lightmiddleweight he fought winky twice.

plus after the forrest loss he went through a few bad fights where he looked crap.


oh and also he was being promoted by gary ****en shaw.

 

Floyd Mayweather Jr. - "Money" persona = Shane Mosley

 

Shane was too nice, fought everyone and wasn't mexican.

Too nice-very respectful guy. Didn't make bad choices outside the ring never had trouble with the law. Never played the role of hill or bad guy.

Fought everyone-no one could ever say shane ducked anyone. Because he fought everyone there was never any build up for his fights. Was always easy to deal with when it came to making fights.

Not mexican-coming from socal not being mexican hurt his numbers. If he was from chicago, new york or detroit he would have be a much bigger ppv star

 

He wasn't slick or black enough.

 

That is a weird dynamic, that I totally agree with. Malinaggi gets alot of love from NY, doubt anyone would even know who the magic man was if he was from So Cal. Who's this Tim Bradley I hear about now and then?

 

Also his early pre-title career stalled considerably because of the wrong choices.

 

Balco incident

 

This is what happens when a fighter does what the message board people want and not what the promoters want. When you fight ANYBODY you end up fighting Vernon Forrest, losing, and killing all of the momentum and media interest you built in beating a top PPV star like De La Hoya.

However, if he didn't do it, and fought, say, Arturo Gatti after that, the messages boards would be up in arms over it...but Mosley would have won, looked great doing so, and have shown an ability to attract a PPV crowd.

This is why people like Bob Arum continue to stay in business while people like us would make horrible promoters. Sure, WE all hate him, but you have to admit, without him, 80% of the boxers who carried the spot over the past decade would NOT exist. They exist because he knows how to match them for maximum exposure, publicity, and profit.

If everybody fought the way we wanted them to fight, you'd see P4P stars with Glen Johnson-like records, a bunch of formerly promising 23 year old boxers ruined Fernando Vargas-style by wars with seasoned vets, and nobody would draw flies outside of the hardcore boxing community.

Case and point: Shane Mosley.

 

Shane was a great fighter, but his personality didn't draw anybody to him. It sucks, but that's the way it works. You got to sell yourself outside the ring as well as inside of it. Look at Broner. Dude already has people taking notice because of the whole hair grooming thing he likes to do.

 

I was actually talking to my parents about boxing, they used to watch it a lot when I was growing up in the 90's and early 2000's and they mentioned Shane Mosley as I guy they liked to watch. Incidentally, they also mentioned James Toney, Jones Jr., and Holyfield. Maybe guys on roids are funner to watch.

 

I wondered this too, same with Hopkins really, both big names but can't sell ****

 

Mosley had an exciting style compared to Hopkins though so should have done better.

 

I'm sure he won't go hungry at the end of the day.I think the close decision v the PPV darling and the Balco incident always meant people had misgivings.I freely admit that I didn't give him the credit he deserves till late in the day.
I'm sorry Shane,I was wrong about you.

 

Hopkins wasnt as popular because in his younger days he was too outspoken and networks were scared to put him on. Hopkins would fight on Fox sports back in the mid to late 1990's pre tito, and he would go on for 10 mins after the fight about all the things wrong with boxing, and how boxing was chewing up and using these kids.