Comments Thread For: Shane Mosley Will Beat Mayweather Jr, Says Pacquiao

[Dave Rado]

I think Pacquiao is just wishful thinking.

Probably, but so are you in your next sentence.

I guess this means he didn't watch the Floyd-Marquez fight or Mosley-Cotto.

The version of Mosley who lost to Cotto would not have a chance of beating Mayweather, but most people think Mosley has had been rejuvenated since then, and is back to his old form.

Floyd-Marquez tells you nothing about this fight. Marquez had a bad style to cope with Mayweather, and the weight gain had slowed him down and reduced his power. He was physically dominated even when he was at Lightweight. He's still a natural Super-Featherweight.

OTOH, Mosley is a big Welterweight and very fast, with a good workrate and good power. He'll be a far tougher challenge for Mayweather than Marquez was, although I think May will win.

[Rome-By-Ko]

I have to agree with that IF he gets hurt. I just see Shane getting fustrated though if he keeps his poise which ****m will help with he got a chance. A snowballs chance but still a chance...

Lol A snowball's chance I like that.It's just so crazy to me how alot of people don't give Mosley a real chance in this fight.I believe if May win's you are going to know he dug deep for that win.I don't want to hear this Cotto crap nomore noway Cotto outboxed and they landed the same amount of punches and Mosley land more power shot's.All cotto had to do was stay on his feet same as with clottey.

[Rome-By-Ko]

Probably, but so are you in your next sentence.



The version of Mosley who lost to Cotto would not have a chance of beating Mayweather, but most people think Mosley has had been rejuvenated since then, and is back to his old form.

Floyd-Marquez tells you nothing about this fight. Marquez had a bad style to cope with Mayweather, and the weight gain had slowed him down and reduced his power. He was physically dominated even when he was at Lightweight. He's still a natural Super-Featherweight.

OTOH, Mosley is a big Welterweight and very fast, with a good workrate and good power. He'll be a far tougher challenge for Mayweather than Marquez was, although I think May will win.

Another guy with this Cotto **** Cotto got a gift all he had to do was stand up at the bell he was going to win.That Cotto before the brick beating had a chance at beating Mayweather No?

[Dave Rado]

Of course that's what they will say.Mosley has been around for a longtime and is known by alot of star's more so then cotto.

Mosley was never regarded as a huge draw back then. Cotto was. Almost every respected boxing writer, and the vast majority of fans on the forums, thought at that time that Cotto was the biggest fight for Pac other than Mayweather. And legacy-wise Cotto and Mosley were regarded as pretty even at that time, because Cotto had already beaten Mosley.

Sure, it made financial sense to Arum to keep it in-house, that was certainly a factor for Arum, but Pac made the final decision on the opponent, not Arum, and he made it when he saw how excited and loyal Cotto's fans were, when he watched the Cotto-Clottey fight.

[Rome-By-Ko]

Thanks for posting the vid bro..

I love getting hyped for the fight man.

[Rome-By-Ko]

Mosley was never regarded as a big draw back then. Cotto was. Almost every respected boxing writer, and the vast majority of fans on the forums, thought at that time that Cotto was the biggest fight for Pac other than Mayweather. And legacy-wise Cotto and Mosley were regarded as pretty even at that time, because Cotto had already beaten Mosley.

Sure, it made financial sense to Arum to keep it in-house, that was certainly a factor for Arum, but Pac made the final decision on the opponent, not Arum, and he made it when he saw how excited and loyal Cotto's fans were, when he watched the Cotto-Clottey fight.

Just bearly beating Mosley and was a draw cause of were he fought most of the time. Bro there were also boxing writer's who felt Mosley was the bigger draw no?As far as legacy no I'm sorry they are not close I'll give Cotto alot of respect but I believe as well as most of boxing historian's that mosley is far past Cotto.Mosley was p4p the best before Cotto was not.Mosley has fought his way back to the num 3 spot come-on my friend legacy wise they are not even close.

[Chief2ndzOnly!]

I love getting hyped for the fight man.

Thanks for the Vid homie. I aint read none of the previous posts so please excuse me as I jump into the conversation.

To ALL. Shane has more than a snowball's chance to beat Floyd IMHO, but I think there are some things that Shane does in the ring that ****m won't be able to help. That is what will be the deciding factor in this fight.

[educator06]

you know im sick of the cotto urban legend as well.

[Dan...]

In regards to this fight I just can't get away from the fact that Shane got outboxed by Cotto, and Floyd is 10 times the boxer that Miguel is. I just don't see Shane being able to deal with Mayweather's better technical ability. Just like he couldn't deal with Forrest's, or Winky's, or Oscar's when he decided to use it.

I'll accept that Shane has a chance, but he is a pretty big dog here IMO.

[Dave Rado]

Just bearly beating Mosley and was a draw cause of were he fought most of the time. Bro there were also boxing writer's who felt Mosley was the bigger draw no?As far as legacy no I'm sorry they are not close I'll give Cotto alot of respect but I believe as well as most of boxing historian's that mosley is far past Cotto.Mosley was p4p the best before Cotto was not.Mosley has fought his way back to the num 3 spot come-on my friend legacy wise they are not even close.

Most boxing writers thought Cotto was the bigger draw back then.

Regarding legacy, I'm not talking about how they're perceived now, and I'm not talking about their whole careers; I'm talking about how they were perceived a year ago. At that time, they were in more or less the same position as each other in the P4P lists, and it was generally agreed that they was nearly nothing to choose between them in terms of who was the #1 Welterweight. If Pac had fought either one of them, he'd have been accused of ducking the other.