Shane COULDNT PULL THE TRIGGER:39yrs old,15 months off & IT SHOWED

[The Tase]

its quite obvious with the examples i showed in my opening posts that shane was way past prime when floyd beat him.

[niceguy45]

mosley fought old......it is what it is

[MonsieurGeorges]

floyd outboxed him plain and simple. He landed nearly everything he threw. If he wasn't punching he was feinting Shane into knots, watch the fight again and notice that when Shane looks like he is edging up to throw a left Mayweather moves his right glove up to check it before he can get it off. Floyd was able to read Shane and he switched up his punches so he landed nearly everything

[The Tase]

mosley fought old......it is what it is

smh.....


he fought old because he's old.



What shane is pretending to be 39 years old & 1 year & 5months removed from his last fight & faking to be gassed by the 4th round?

[PAKYO]

this is pathetic..shane could pull the trigger...he was afraid to cause of the counters coming his way

What's more pathetic is constantly nuthugging a fighter...

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I've been questioning Shane's stamina even before and the fact that he is old enough already and a very long inactivity in the ring, i really never give it a thought Shane will have a good chance of beating floyd.

He is just there for the payday and he was in luck it happened. I like Shane as a boxer even before and i'm saying this not as a diss to him but it's the reality.

That's why my constant comment before the fight is just show me one flush shot on floyd and he did. Gotta love the man for that, he never failed to deliver.

[monkeyboy]

Sure, I agree that Shane did seem to suffer from age related stamina/reticence to throw after the second but I still give credit to Floyd for taking the fight and winning it in such style.
People have to realise that Floyd is fighting for legacy and that isn't a one fight deal. Shane is one of the clean-up fights. The big ones will be Pac (for dominance) and Williams (due to the perceived threat level).
Then a few young prime fighters (a la Berto) and there we have a big finish to a top career.
Then history shuffles him in it's esteem.

[BoxCleva]

The whole lead up to the Mayweather fight was possibly one of the worst preparations in the history of the sport for a fight of that magnitude. I said before the fight was signed that Mosley needed a tune up before facing Mayweather, they should have replaced Berto with another boxer, just to keep Shane active, and pushed the Floyd fight back a few months.

Mosley got hit a fair few times in the Margarito fight, but because he was properly conditioned and prepared it didn't have a great effect on him for the most part. Against Mayweather, Mosley's conditioning was very poor indeed due to a combination of factors: 15 months out the ring, 2 training camps back to back with no tune up replacement when the Berto fight fell thru (=over trained), nearly 40 years old, and stepping in the ring with one of the best in the sport. Very bad combination imo.

However, if age hasn't fully caught up to Mosley by now, there is a possibility that he could make a dramatic underdog comeback like he did against Margarito. Assuming he doesn't retire, he'll need to stay active and fight again fairly soon.

[mandirigma]

Team Mayweathers knew this stamina problem will slow Shane in the fight. This was their icing on the puding. Floyd will never fight fair. This was Floyd and team trademark.

[hugh grant]

Just as i suspected, shane is past it & couldnt pull the trigger. Just as i suspected, a physically & mentally shot margarito made shane better than he actually is.

After a couple rounds of looking good shane completely dropped off in his aggression, workrate, & stamina. Its the classic example of a old shot fighter fighting an elite fighter.

See:

Joe Calzaghe vs Bernard Hopkins - after doing well in the first half of the fight knocking down calzaghe, the 2nd half of the fight everything slowed down for hopkins & he had to be relegated to faking injuries just to stave off a slapper. He was 43.

Joe Calzaghe vs Roy JOnes jr. - after doing well the first couple rounds & also knocking down Calzaghe, jones fell off the cliff. everything went down. his aggression, activity, strength, stamina went down hill. He went into a defensive shell & laid on the ropes the rest of the fight. He was 39.

Manny Pacquiao vs Oscar Hoya - after having life in the first couple of rounds, he was cooked & done. He laid on the ropes & couldnt pull the trigger anymore. Everything shut down. He was 35.


Now lets go to Shane vs Floyd. He was doing great the first couple of rounds, hurting floyd & almost knocking him down then the 2nd half of the fight he completely gassed. The physicall toll of not having fought took over his body. He was gassed by the 5th-6th round. He was just in a defensive shell the rest of the fight. Even that round that he hurt floyd in he couldnt finish him off because he already blew his load the first half of the round.

See Joel Casamayor vs Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz was off over a year & it showed in the fight. He should have never been outboxed by a slugging plodder like santa cruz. He was 37.

In conclusion, the common denominator all the fighters i have described is that they are all way past prime & their age & similar fate in the ring vs a younger fighters proved it. They couldnt pull the trigger because they were past prime & shot.


It is a very good win for floyd. Not a great one. It says a lot about Floyd's career that his best win came against a 39 year old fighter who hasnt fought in over a year & a half.

People beat SSM when SSM was in his prime and on roids, so of course PBF wont get any credit for fighting SSM.

But that is no problem, because PBF knows the score. PBF knows no one gives him credit no matter what, so its no problem to point to the fact SSM was past it.
If PBF wants credit, he knows what hes got to do. Simple as.

[Ryannn]

he'll get no credit, no matter who he beats....

whoever he fights, there'll be excuses.



before, it was, "he only fights smaller fighters. he should fight a WW who's his size."

he comes out and destroys shane mosley, the #1 ranked WW in the world may I add, then it's "shane is old and shot."


pacquiao is already making excuses about the blood testing, saying he'll be at a disadvantage b/c mayweather is bigger....lolz. this is the same guy who just fought cotto and clottey.

IMO, floyd beats the **** outta manny, then once again, he'll be seen as "picking on a smalller fighter."

some dudes will just never be satisfied, no matter who he beats. name a fighter, i can come up with an excuse off the top of my head, that ppl will use if may beats him.

like stevie forbes said, in the hood, we call dudes like you "haters."







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shane probably beats every other WW.




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you obviously don't know what // thread means.