Comments Thread For: Merchant: Mosley is Capable of Beating Manny Pacquiao

[Chopper417]

Mosley certainly CAN win this fight, it's just extremely unlikely that he will. I would say Pac wins this fight 8 or 9 out of every 10 times they fight. Their are 2 ways I could potentially see Mosley winning this fight, he CANNOT win this by decision so let's get that out of the way right now. So he can either try to turn the bout into an absolute street fight right from the opening bell and just hope to land something huge, or he can focus exclusively on Pacs body for the first 2-3 rounds and then hope to land something big up top in rounds 4 and 5 (hoping Pac is guarding the body more closely at that point and leaving his upper body more exposed). If this goes past 6 I just can't see any conceivable way Mosley wins.

[SluggerFan]

Mosley's problem is he tends to try and load up with a huge punch and it becomes telegraphed and easily dodged. After he caught Mayweather in the second round, that's all he looked for is one big shot. Against the best fighters in the division (Mayweather included), that is not going to work. If he could just let his punches flow he would have a much better chance, but I don't see this dog changing his stripes this late in the game. I see it being close for three or four rounds then Manny taking control for a unanimous decision win or maybe a late round TKO...

[Jamel H]

It's funny how some of you are now saying that my boy Shane can have a chance against the pound for pound king but when he fought Mayweather he was over the hill and too old smh...

[*OG Wenger*]

Pacman seem to think that he is just some beast never mine he has been ko'd twice. If you guys think for one minute Shane is not going to touch Pacman flush with one of them right hands you are out of your mind. If he caught Floyd he will catch Pacman the other thing is what will happen after he catches him will Pac respond like Floyd or attempt to go to war like he always does at that point we will have a fight on our hands don't be surprised if Pacman has to get off the deck for this one!

LOL! pacquiao has not been knocked down for what seems like centurys and you really think 40 year old mosley is going to knock down pacquiao?

[-DSG-]

LOL! pacquiao has not been knocked down for what seems like centurys and you really think 40 year old mosley is going to knock down pacquiao?

who has he fought that had a chance to do that

[iNDOLiFER]

It's funny how some of you are now saying that my boy Shane can have a chance against the pound for pound king but when he fought Mayweather he was over the hill and too old smh...

i find it more funny that when this fight was announced everyone was counting mosley out now theres talk that mosley can win, might win, blah blah blah... hahaha.. i bet if mosley suprisely pulled this one off with a win all the ones saying mosley stands no chance, mosley is done, will all come back and rave at how good mosley is... thats just how the mind of *****s works..

[toyboy33]

Floyds gonna love if Shane wins. Then he'll have a easy rematch.

[REMOVED SHARK 97]

Months ago this fight was a joke where Sugar would get slaughtered, what has happened in the past months apart from Arums hype that shows you he has a chance...

The only thing that has changed is Oldsley getting even older.

[-PANDA-]

While I'd like to see Shane pull off the upset or at least make it close, I just can't see how it happens. After the 2nd round with Floyd, Shane barely threw punches. He was mesmerized by Floyd's speed. Manny is around the same speed and throws more punches. While Shane probably won't get knocked out (due to his experience & good chin), I think he'll lose in a pretty one sided fight.

I hope I'm wrong.

he wasnt mesmerized by floyds speed...he was reluctant to throw because he'd get countered hard every time he threw a punch

[Chopper417]

Months ago this fight was a joke where Sugar would get slaughtered, what has happened in the past months apart from Arums hype that shows you he has a chance...

The only thing that has changed is Oldsley getting even older.

I completely disagree with you. Myself and anyone else who really knows the sport have said the same thing since the fight was made. It's a miserable fight and classic Bob Arum Horse****. Manny should win the fight easily but Mosley does have a punchers chance. That's really all there is to it.