You are talking about someone whose only losses are decisions to three multiple world champions. You can pick at anyones career and find faults. Mosley is a first ballot hall of famer, and he has had an outstanding career. IMO you are holding him up to unrealistic standards.
Has Shane Mosley ever definitively beat a great fighter? How about dominated a good fighter?
Shane looks like a god against bustas. Against top-shelf opposition? Not so much.
He's always been pretty open down the middle. He had some slick moves in the pocket here and there, but overall, it seemed more of a case of "his offense was his defense".
He tends to get overrated, perhaps because he seems to be a likeable guy. His speed makes people think he's some sort of great pure boxer, but he's more of a speedy slugger than anything. Cotto outboxing and outjabbing him did not surprise me one bit. Mosley had amazing physical gifts IMO.
Overall he's still a certain HOFer who will still go down as a great (I'm guessing the lower end of the top 100).
i completely agree with that, people seem to think he is a master boxer, which he is not, speedy slugger is a good description,
Wasn't accusin you in particular homey. My bad if you misinterpreted that. Just sayin one less than stellar night shouldn't draw criticism to his whole career and legacy imo.
I didn't think you were bro, just making sure nobody took my posts as hate.
Who you referrin to homey? If you mean Marg, he realized after the Mayo fight he had no business gettin loud on him like he had been for the last week or so.
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