Why did SSM APPEAR to be gassed after 2-3 rounds against Floyd?

i say he was obviously blood drained O_O

you don't know shit about boxing. neither do you..

Why do ppl keep saying he gassed? He looked tight yeah but still had plenty of energy even at the end of the fight bouncing around all night like that. It seems whenever a few posters suggest that something happened to explain why someone lost everyone just goes along with it. He did not gas, he stopped throwing because he was worried about the counter and loading up looking for the opportunity to land the big shot but by then Floyd had adjusted and it was not available. Floyd was just better end of story. Please go over the fight again. There was something definitely wrong with Mosley. After round 7, Mosley's trainer stated that Mosley appeared to be fading. During that same sequence, Mosley kept requesting what I thought was for a "cool wet towel". It's true that the way the fight went (the pace of the fight), Mosley should not have been gassed but he appeared to be stuck in sparring mode. The way Mosley fought those rounds, Floyd didn't even require his A game defensively. That is, it appeared that Mosley just didn't have it in him that night to up the tempo.

Its called wasting all your energy trying to KO Floyd after Round 2. He went wild and Floyd clowned him. He wasted alot of energy and was winded and he probably thought like most did that Floyd would lay back and box for the 3rd round. BUT..... WRONG. He came out and pressured Shane which made Shane have to play defense and he never caught his breath. Floyd owned him. This^^^^^^^^^^^^

Fight could've been fixed...i was really wondering why shane stopped after only 2 rounds when he already wobbled floyd????? I know he doesn't have the stamina to last the whole 12 rounds but after only 2 rounds??? something fishy there....

i think he was just far too nervous

He's old... I don't believe he was gased...Floyd turned him into(or Shane obliged to be) a counterpuncher and Shane isn't one... The openings weren't there and Shane didn't know how to attack... "Stop looking for the perfect shot, there isn't one!" It looked like Mosley was waiting for the perfect shot but .......not just Floyd but good boxer tend to not show you openings if you hit them with one shot at a time, as Mosley did that night. So you need to create your openings. In the 2nd round, even when Mosley missed or hit gloves or was partially blocked by Floyd's gloves, it created an opening for Mosley to hit with another more potent shot and as you can see connected and had Floyd in trouble. It's hard to get into Mosley's head and body but you need to take the obvious (age and ring rust) as PART of the reasons why. After the 2nd round it looked like Mosley was stuck in sparring mode. It's not like Floyd pressured Mosley with shots as some opponents do, ala Paul Williams, and if you take that 2nd round out for a second, its not like Floyd had to put his A game defensively either. Mosley just wasn't the Mosley we all knew and for good reason. Age, rust and I hate to say it because I like Mosley, possibly because he was not cheating. A younger primed Mosley vs Floyd is what people were hoping to see but that Mosley has left the building. This is not to say he can't beat the "right" boxer but at his age he needs to pick his opponents now.

mosley is on the early stage of parkinsons disease, have you not noticed the spasms in his hands? the hands will shake first then the speech will be gone. Ouch. Well the signs are there

Mosley was very,very tense in the ring, and that builds up a little lactic acid, which makes it harder for muscles to contract, thats why Emanuel Stward was saying that his punches were "lazy" punches.

mosley is on the early stage of parkinsons disease, have you not noticed the spasms in his hands? the hands will shake first then the speech will be gone.

Any ideas? hatton looked shit against pac, cotto looked bad, oscar looked dying, clottey didnt try........yeah most fighters look bad when they lose and you are exaggerating his stamina issues completely.

Because Floyd was too good for him. Floyd is simply a better athlete than Mosley ever was.

Ask mosley...........

Its called wasting all your energy trying to KO Floyd after Round 2. He went wild and Floyd clowned him. He wasted alot of energy and was winded and he probably thought like most did that Floyd would lay back and box for the 3rd round. BUT..... WRONG. He came out and pressured Shane which maded Shane have to play defense and he never caught his breath. Floyd owned him. Fighters at that level don't have the stamina of an amateur, they can continue the instensity. Look at Manny Pacquiao. Dudde never gets tired. Mosley always goes for the knockout and always steps it up late in the fight. Shane Mosley was overtrained. In boxing, missing punches is exhausting. No it's not. Get off Fight Night and watch some boxing.

a number of factors..........age.....war battered....inactive for so long......then cancellation of january fight...........blood draining is a possibility.......and not properly warmed up prior to the fight agreed............

If you train 4 times a week there should be no excuse for your ignorance. In that round he tried taking Mayweather out 2 punches landed flush, the rest didn't land cleanly and as I said he fought at a higher pace. It's natural for fighters to fight the 3rd round at a lower tempo so they can get back in their rhythm. Floyd denied him that opportunity and didn't allow him to get settled. What happened to Mosley is the reason why people don't try and sprint their way through a marathon. Mosley looked more of the same as he always does in the first 6 rounds. After landing 2 rounds he's some how gassed. You can give floyd all the credit you want just becaues its floyd, but that doesnt change the fact that mosley looked different in only 3 rounds of boxing, when floyd himself is an economic puncher. Now all of a sudden floyd is being given credit for taking mosleys 2 power shots that drained him of all his energy, cmon...what floyd cant do wrong these days. The mosley that fought margarito came in the same tempo, margarito is a much more active fighter and if you look at compubox, mosley was throwing more punches at margarito compared to floyd. But lets just ignore the stats, and forget about the year and a half inactivity of mosley, and just give floyd all the credit for taking all of mosleys 2 punches that apparently was filled with all his energy in the entire fight.

how is it hating when the MAJORITY of the boxing community ..fans and otherwise saw that Shane appeared to be gassed very early in the fight? you don't know shit about boxing.

He was inactive. He said it himself... he just tensed up too much after almost doing the "impossible"...... I still believe Shane has alil left in the tank for one more good performance. But I think its just he Shane fan in me. We'll see how he looks if he decides to fight again.

Mosley didn't look tired to me after 2-3 rounds. He looked confused and wasn't at all competitive after the 2nd round, but he didn't start to get that "gassed out" look until around the 7th round. Even then, the only reason why he started to get tired is because he was too tense and he was moving about 3x as much as Floyd, it wasn't his basic conditioning that is the problem. Mosley has a habit of moving his hands around a lot and throwing lots of feints to try and confuse his opponent, but it really backfired on him in this fight. Floyd wasn't confused at all, and Mosley moving around a lot just meant that he left more openings for Floyd to hit him.

I train 4x a week thanks. Im not going to believe he was tired after just 2 rounds because he landed a flush shot. It was a combination of being old, having wayyy too much time in between fights, and fighting floyd. The inactivity between fights is what i think killed him. After a year and a half off his body forgot it was like to be in a real boxing match, and at his age it didnt help. If you train 4 times a week there should be no excuse for your ignorance. In that round he tried taking Mayweather out 2 punches landed flush, the rest didn't land cleanly and as I said he fought at a higher pace. It's natural for fighters to fight the 3rd round at a lower tempo so they can get back in their rhythm. Floyd denied him that opportunity and didn't allow him to get settled. What happened to Mosley is the reason why people don't try and sprint their way through a marathon.