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EXCLUSIVE: 2006 MOSLEY WANTS THE LION'S SHARE FOR MAYWEATHER FIGHT!
By G. Leon
Late last night, **********.com reached out to the Mosley's to see what the latest news was regarding their potential November 4 showdown with undefeated pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather. Although their Monday afternoon meeting with Richard Schaefer and Oscar De La Hoya was described as "great", we were informed that a deal has not been struck as of now and a follow up meeting has been scheduled for the near future. While we were not provided with detailed specifics, ********** can inform you that Mosley is currently requesting the lion's share of the money for the Mayweather bout to take place. Jin Mosley explained to ********** that she feels Floyd Mayweather Jr is delusional for thinking he's going to get the kind of money he's looking for and she made it perfectly clear that both her and Shane believe Mayweather should have taken the $8M to fight Antonio Margarito, going as far as to state, "you tell Bob Arum to give us $8M and we'll fight Margarito in November." Surely there will be much more to follow.
2006:FLoyd Mayweather:
"I wear the pants in my family and she wears the pants in his family,''
Mayweather fighting Mosley is the biggest pay per view fight boxing match out there outside of Mayweather-De La Hoya. If Mayweather beats Mosley, who has beaten De La Hoya and Vargas twice, then Mayweather-De La Hoya next May is a bonanza. It would challenge Lewis-Tyson (1.9 million) and certainly surpass Holyfield-Lewis (1.4 million) in terms of pay per view buys. One pay per view maven was practically salivating at the thought of a Mayweather pay per view daily double of Mosley and then De La Hoya. You could hear the cash registers ringing from his head. Cha-Ching!
First you have to convince Mosley to fight again this year. He wants to take a break for the rest of the year, he said he wanted to get down to 147 pounds, having overstayed his welcome at 154 pound (but he did pocket over $6 million in the process).
Mayweather joked (at least I think he was joking) that he was going to ask Jin Mosley, Shane's wife, if she would let her husband fight him in November. Jin Mosley helps her husband make business decisions, which isn't a bad thing. But boxing is a macho sport where that kind of input from a woman, particularly a wife, is frowned upon.
"I wear the pants in my family and she wears the pants in his family,'' Mayweather said.
Ouch! The first shot across the bow has been launched.
You can bet that there's going to be a lot of pressure on Mosley to make that fight with Mayweather in November. And there probably won't be much of a need for a circus after that one because the ringmaster, De La Hoya, would be next up for Mayweather.
2006: MOSLEY TOOTH-ACHE PROBLEMS
it was odd that Mosley would wave off a potential bout with Mayweather back in 2006 after he had defeated Fernando Vargas for the second time. The fighter was asked about the possibility of taking on Mayweather by HBO’s Larry Merchant and Shane, rather oddly, began complaining about a loose tooth and said he would take some time off. Mayweather instead took on Carlos Baldomir, winning a boring unanimous decision and then signed on for a mega-fight with Oscar De La Hoya which he won, again by decision.
Mosley, who had been riding high on the wave of success the Vargas fights had provided for him, was suddenly on the outside looking in. And for a while it looked as though he would suffer from being under the au****es of Golden Boy Promotions rather than benefit from it. He didn’t fight again for seven months until he dropped down from the junior middleweight division to welterweight and took on Luis Collazo in February of this year. He won a clear cut decision but in the build up to De La Hoya – Mayweather he again seemed to be out of the loop.
2006:I’ve been chasing Shane Mosley for ten years.
“The Pretty Boy” told the New York Times after Mosley had destroyed Vargas for a second time that, “He earned the right to fight me by getting that spectacular knockout, but I’ve been chasing Shane Mosley for ten years. But I got to talk to Jin (Mosley’s wife) because she runs the show. We can make the fight happen but she’s the boss of that household.”Comment
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