BoxingScene Staff Predictions For Mosley-Wright 2

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The two combatants are no strangers to each other. The fighters met in the ring on March 13, 2004, televised before an audience of millions on HBO. Shane Mosley was coming off a very controversial win over Oscar De La Hoya and was set to face Ricardo Mayorga. Mayorga had an agreement in place to face Mosley upon beating Cory Spinks and unifying the 147 weight division. As we all know, not everything goes as planned in the sport of Boxing, Mayorga was upset by Cory Spinks and lost a future date with Mosley as a result. Mosley could have faced many other fighters but decided to step up to plate and take on the most difficult fighter at 154 pounds. The bout was getting plenty of publicity in the fight game due to the fact that all the titles at 154 pounds were on the line. The bout was advertised as the fight that would unify the 154 pound division and stabilize the weight class by only having one legit world champion.

The other bit of hype for the initial meeting between Molsey and Wright was the fact that Shane Mosley had already come to terms with Felix Trinidad for a bout worth millions of dollars. Mosley was ready to move up to 160 pounds after the bout with Winky Wright in order to meet Trinidad in what would of been Trinidad's comeback fight. Once again Boxing showed us that not everything goes as expected, Mosley lost to Wright and it was Ricardo Mayorga who got the first crack at Trinidad.

Many boxing experts criticized Mosley for taking on Winky Wright when a deal worth millions was in place for him to meet Felix Trinidad at a later date, there was also a 10 million+ offer from Oscar De La Hoya for a rubber match.. Most experts did not give Mosley any shot at beating Wright and felt that style wise, this was a bout Shane should stay far away from. The bout unraveled as most boxing experts predicted, a one-sided domination by Winky Wright. Shane had no answers as Wright brushed off any shots Shane tried to put together, bullied Shane, out muscledShane and out boxed the Sugar Man with ease.

The loss was so devastating to Shane Mosley that he fired his longtime trainer/father Jack Mosley and replaced him with top trainer Joe Goossen. The experts still have Shane as a heavy underdog in the rematch and can't see the reasoning as to why Mosley would want to fight Wright in an immediate rematch other then his ego getting in the way. The staff and contributors of BoxingScene give their predictions for the upcoming Shane Mosley-Winky Wright rematch, taking place on November 20, 2004 on HBO. [details]

[dpfinley]

Although I'll always like Mosley, I just have to give this to Wright again.

I see Mosley making it a closer fight this time around, but you never know with him.


I do hope Mosley comes in looking good under Goossen's training, because it will make it a much more interesting fight.

[PacKillsMorales]

last night i watched marco antonio barrera - naseem hamed and the
disapointing thing about that fight was naseems refusal to throw a
combination, instead looking for the one punch that might stop barrera

now i aint seen mosley-wright 1 yet (im downloading it) but its common
knowledge that mosley didnt let his hands go enough and instead relied
on his one punch to get a ko.

hopefully hell listen to some good advice about his performance
and make the fight competitive.
i hope mosley aint braindamaged like some believe and i hope
this aint mosleys last fight.
he could still drop weights and be a champ again.