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I also recall, sometime after the fight, that forrest mentioned mosley bursted his ear drum.
A few weekends ago while watching some old school fights (hearns leonard I in particular) I noticed that most fighters of yesteryear didn't fight as defensively as fighters do now.
After watching Mosley-Forrest I, i watched leonard-Hearns I in order to figure out how a skilled smaller fighter might be able to compose a strategy to beat a tall skilled fighter, and noticed one big reason why leonard was able to defeat hearns. Not excluding leonards skill determination etc., hearns didn't fight as defensively against leonard as forrest did against mosley. He didn't hold as much (which was a part of vernon's strategy) and at some points negelected to keep his hands up while getting hit. In mosley's losses, he fought two fighters who had the extremely rare combination of being big, tall, skillful, and in their primes (or at least close to). In winky and vernon, you had 2 fighters who when fighting opponents who they respected, worked behind their jabs, picked their shots intelligently (rarely overcommitting) and were defensively sharp. This is extremely hard for a shorter opponent to overcome. Fighters, even the very elite, seldomly take the risk of fighting opponents with these qualities.
It is my belief that if forrest, or even wright for that matter, were not as disciplined as they are/were (at least when fighting opponents that they consider to be legitimate threats), mosley would have been able to pull out some victories against these two. Sustained recklessness against the sugar man might have landed them in serious trouble (and remember shane was the smaller man, that says alot, think about it).
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