By Mark Vester
Former junior middleweight champion Sergio Mora made a recent appearance on BoxingScene.com's official audio show, Leave It In The Ring Radio, to discuss his fight with former three division champion Shane Mosley, taking place on September 18 at Staples Center. When the deal to fight Mosley was made, Mora was already in training to fight JC Candello in late July. He withdrew from that fight and is taking some time off to get adjusted for a fully revised training camp.
"I'm taking ten days off because I need to get my mind of Candello, who is the complete opposite of Shane Mosley. All of my sparring partners were six-foot with long jabs and kind of stayed back a little bit. Now I'm boxing a short, super fast, strong, aggressive fighter. I'm talking almost two weeks off and getting back in there," Mora said.
In his last fight on April 3, Mora fought with an aggressive style and stopped Calvin Green in the seventh round. It was Mora's first TKO win since 2008. He plans to be aggressive against Mosley to give the people buying the pay-per-view, and watching it live, a good fight.
"I think I showed more aggression in my last fight and I'm going to show more aggression in my next fight. I think people are interested in seeing a knockout. I wasn't blessed with the big power but I definitely have enough to put you on your heel and hit you consistently and make you wilt," Mora said.
"I never really laid that on the line but that seems to be what the people want and that's what I'm going to have to give if I want to continue these headline events with Golden Boy."
"I'm willing to go out on my shield and I've never not tried to win."
Mora plans to put the hurt on Mosely. The "Sugar" man was dominated and took a beating from Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 1. Mora will test to see what's left, even if it means going right into the fire. He wants to punish Mosley in the same way as Mayweather. Mora is not looking for a knockout, but he'll take it if it's there.
"I expect to hurt him because I'm going to land some good punches against him. But if I can stop him and knock him out and do something that has never been done because he's never been stopped and in the same case I've never been stopped. That would be something for him to achieve but [knocking Mosely out] would be the cherry on top of the sundae," Mora said.
"Right now I'm just planning on boxing him and beating the hell out of him inside and out and if I can get a stoppage, that's a statement."
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