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Trinidad had been fighting at Welterweight since he was 18 years old and had extreme difficulty making the weight and had planned on moving up on several occasions, but was never afforded a title shot, not even after he knocked out Troy Waters in a title eliminator. The only reason Trinidad stayed at welterweight was so that he could get the big fights that would catapult him to super stardom. De La Hoya knew this and much like the great yet egotistical Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar has always used his star power and financial clout to induce opponents to fight under circumstance that were to his advantage.Comment
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Trinidad's last fight at 147 was shortly before Mosley's 147 lb. debut against Rivera.
At the end of 2000, Trinidad had beaten Reid and Vargas for 154 lb. titles, and Mosley had beaten DLH at 147 and later defended his belt against Diaz. Mosley publicly said he would like a fight with Trinidad, but Trinidad had already agreed to go to 160 to take part in Don King's Unification tournament.
Tito "retired" in 2002 but there was already talk of him coming back by the end of 2003. Mosley fought Winky in 2004 @ 154 (where both had belts), there was originally talk of him fighting Mayorga, but Mayorga lost to Spinks at the end of 2003. There was talk of Shane fighting Tito had Shane beat Winky (I don't remember if it was supposed to be at 160 or a catchweight or something), but Winky won. So Trinidad fought Mayorga instead.Comment
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why is shanes chin better than tito?
tito was stoped once at middleweight.
and getting flashed knocked down dont really mean anything.
tito vs mosley would have been better than mosley vs oscar
huge match i made this same topic a while back. but yeah at their
best they were in different weight classes im sure if they wanted to really
they could have met at 154 but one would win while the other would lose. so
it was just bad timing. oscar fought everybody lmaoComment
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