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In a battle of slick welterweight boxers, "Sugar" Shane Mosley (44-4, 37 KOs) won a hard-fought unanimous decision over Luis Collazo (26-3, 12 KOs) in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 35-year-old Mosley looked like a 25-year-old Mosley by outworking the younger Collazo in almost every round of the fight. He jumped on Collazo from the first round with harder punches to the head and body and never stopped fighting.
There were points in the fight where Collazo's southpaw style gave Mosley some trouble and Collazo was able to land a few hard left hands, but not enough of them to win the rounds or change the momentum of the fight.
In the eleventh round, a counter right hand sent Collazo down in the final seconds. Rather than sit on his lead in the twelfth and final round, Mosley tried to go for a knockout as Collazo looked for a lottery punch that never came. The final scores were 118-109, 118-109 and 119-108.
The welterweight division is the absolute goldmine of boxing. The amount of talent that currently exists in the welterweight division is unmatched when compared to any weight division in the sport.
Even with such a high level of talent at the weight, Mosley will still have trouble finding an opponent because a lot of the big names at 147 are locked up in upcoming bouts or litigation proceedings.
The man who would bring any welterweight the most money, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., is scheduled for a meeting with Oscar De La Hoya on May 5 in Las Vegas. The fight with De La Hoya takes place at the junior middleweight division of 154-pounds, or seven pounds shy of the welterweights. [details]