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Sugar Shane Mosley has been left for dead any number of times on the long, winding and bumpy boxing highway.
His story is kind of tiring.
Even his local media in Los Angeles are on record tired of his politicking about not getting the fight with Manny Pacquiao that appears to be going to Miguel Cotto November 14th. Cotto has beaten Mosley.
Mosley is campaigning on his own it seems without the help of Golden Boy Promotions. What gives?
Could you imagine media in the Philippines ever turning on Pacquiao?
My theory is that boxing is a sport of free -lance athletes and free -lance businessmen.
Mosley, a certain Hall of Fame member five years after he retires, is really a part time fighter today. He doesn't get motivated for anything other than the big fights. Ricardo Mayorga for one example. Two losses to Vernon Forest another. Two more to Winky Wright.
It's as if he is an NBA free agent and only plays hard in the final year of the contract to make the big free agent bucks.
His record is impressive. 46-5 (39 knockouts). He's never been stopped. You never want to discount him. You can never count him out. But he has the occasional clunker performance and sooner or later he will get old in the ring one day.
His decisive win over Antonio Margarito was textbook, compelling and even one for the ages.
It's not his ability, it's his attitude. He believes he's owed if not every big fight that comes along, just the next one. Hey, it's necessary to be greedy to survive and flourish in boxing.
He seems to be competing with his own Golden Boy stable for big fights including one with Pacquiao.
I hear his piece of the Golden Boy Promotions pie come to 5%. Maybe he should sell it and be done with any conflict of interest of being a fighter and promoter. In fact, while Bob Arum has Manny Pacquiao under contract, the Golden Boy stock is a major hinderance to Mosley.
Any fight involving Mosley has enough money involved to make Golden Boy a co-promoter, even if it just allows GBP to put up banners at press conferences. Most major promoters despise Golden Boy because of its arrogance, deals with HBO nobody else could get and carte blanche with the important American boxing commissions.
Even with two high profile wins over Oscar De La Hoya in Oscar's prime, Mosley didn't become "The Man." Just respect, which never seemed to be enough.
On the other hand, no fighter annoys Arum more than Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Arum used to promote "The Pretty Boy" and he, along with a rap music mogul manager drove the Top Rank boss crazy before a parting of the ways.
So, if Pacquiao gets past Cotto, who does he fight next? Mayweather? Mosley?
It just might be decided by Bob Arum's mood on his way to the announcement press conference. Who does Arum hate less? Golden Boy (Mosley) or Mayweather? Who would take less money? Who would be easier for Pacquiao?
Pacquiao is the only fight that could possibly match in dollars and ego what both Mosley and Mayweather need to feel viable.
How about Mosley fighting Mayweather?
Sugar Shane Mosley has been left for dead any number of times on the long, winding and bumpy boxing highway.
His story is kind of tiring.
Even his local media in Los Angeles are on record tired of his politicking about not getting the fight with Manny Pacquiao that appears to be going to Miguel Cotto November 14th. Cotto has beaten Mosley.
Mosley is campaigning on his own it seems without the help of Golden Boy Promotions. What gives?
Could you imagine media in the Philippines ever turning on Pacquiao?
My theory is that boxing is a sport of free -lance athletes and free -lance businessmen.
Mosley, a certain Hall of Fame member five years after he retires, is really a part time fighter today. He doesn't get motivated for anything other than the big fights. Ricardo Mayorga for one example. Two losses to Vernon Forest another. Two more to Winky Wright.
It's as if he is an NBA free agent and only plays hard in the final year of the contract to make the big free agent bucks.
His record is impressive. 46-5 (39 knockouts). He's never been stopped. You never want to discount him. You can never count him out. But he has the occasional clunker performance and sooner or later he will get old in the ring one day.
His decisive win over Antonio Margarito was textbook, compelling and even one for the ages.
It's not his ability, it's his attitude. He believes he's owed if not every big fight that comes along, just the next one. Hey, it's necessary to be greedy to survive and flourish in boxing.
He seems to be competing with his own Golden Boy stable for big fights including one with Pacquiao.
I hear his piece of the Golden Boy Promotions pie come to 5%. Maybe he should sell it and be done with any conflict of interest of being a fighter and promoter. In fact, while Bob Arum has Manny Pacquiao under contract, the Golden Boy stock is a major hinderance to Mosley.
Any fight involving Mosley has enough money involved to make Golden Boy a co-promoter, even if it just allows GBP to put up banners at press conferences. Most major promoters despise Golden Boy because of its arrogance, deals with HBO nobody else could get and carte blanche with the important American boxing commissions.
Even with two high profile wins over Oscar De La Hoya in Oscar's prime, Mosley didn't become "The Man." Just respect, which never seemed to be enough.
On the other hand, no fighter annoys Arum more than Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Arum used to promote "The Pretty Boy" and he, along with a rap music mogul manager drove the Top Rank boss crazy before a parting of the ways.
So, if Pacquiao gets past Cotto, who does he fight next? Mayweather? Mosley?
It just might be decided by Bob Arum's mood on his way to the announcement press conference. Who does Arum hate less? Golden Boy (Mosley) or Mayweather? Who would take less money? Who would be easier for Pacquiao?
Pacquiao is the only fight that could possibly match in dollars and ego what both Mosley and Mayweather need to feel viable.
How about Mosley fighting Mayweather?