How good of a win was beating Mosely for Floyd?

[2Shotz]

Defeating Mosley in 2010 was a really good win. Defeating Mosley, pre Forrest, circa 99-2001, would’ve been for the ages.

[Nay_Sayer]

A prime Shane beats him.

No. We saw what happens when a prime Shane faces a guy with elite boxing ability. We saw it twice in fact with both of the Forest fights. Prime Shane vs Prime Floyd @ 135 is a 50/50 fight, IMO..

[BoloShot]

Most people seem to dismiss the fight as Mosely being washed up, and Floyd certainly made him look that way.....
but Mosely was coming off the biggest win of his career, against one of the most feared Welters who everyone was saying Floyd was ducking.

Also, Mosely was still good enough to go on and be an opponent for Pac after Floyd was done with him.

My only hesitation here is that there was a bit of a lay off for Mosely following his destruction of Margarito.

But I still feel this was a great win that Floyd gets very little credit for

Mosley's best win was not Margarito, clearly it was ODLH. He was also coming off 16 months inactivity I believe. It's a very good win or course but is it that good? Nope.

[BoloShot]

probably the best win of the last 20 years. it was basically our era's leonard-hearns

What in the hell are you smoking? Never mind I see you are being extremelyyyy sarcastic.

[BoloShot]

in hindsight its easy to say shane was washed and floyd fought an ancient shane however..


i remember watching the shane-margarito fight live. leading into it, it really felt like shane was finally "passing the torch" to tony, who was ruling the roost at welter.. and in shanes prior fight, he let a ricardo mayorga hang around way too long, a mayorga who already had been drilled by oscar,tito, etc..

in that margarito fight tho it really looked like vintage shane. from the get go he was explosive and seemed to have dynamite in his hands. margs was on top of the world after stopping UNDEFEATED cotto.. and shane made margs look like an utter pinata. shane was older when he fights floyd, but held a legitimate portion of the welterweight crown, and rightfully held a spot in the PFP ranks after winning the title again.

i give floyd credit for beating shane. mosley will always be one of my favorite fighters and i acknowledge that

Did you conveniently forget the whole issue with the hand wraps in the Margarito fight which definitely impacted how Tony would perform for the most obvious reasons.

[Black Jesus]

Mosley's best win was not Margarito, clearly it was ODLH. He was also coming off 16 months inactivity I believe. It's a very good win or course but is it that good? Nope.

Mosely won a close decision against ODH....
He dominated and Knocked Out Margarito. Margarito was coming off a bigger win then anything ODH ever had at 147

[SplitSecond]

I remember Floyd making excuse after excuse as to why he shouldn’t fight Mosley. Then when Mosley was out for a year, he jumped on it. Everyone knows Mosley is a juice head, and fighters cycle off 2 or so months before a fight after months of juicing. When Berto pulled out Oldsley was forced into back to back training camps with little to no juice, and probably tanked his hormones, thus the flimsy weakling that showed up.

What’s worse, I think this was the fight Mayweather popped three times and got a TUE.

[BoloShot]

Mosely won a close decision against ODH....
He dominated and Knocked Out Margarito. Margarito was coming off a bigger win then anything ODH ever had at 147

What the **** are you saying man? De La Hoya has a better resumé than any of the chumps mentioned so far in this thread. Incredible levels of delusion on display by yourself.

[Nay_Sayer]

mosley looked horrible vs mayorga. one fight vs marg and he's back to prime? thats just silly talk. he was 39 and clinched the entire fight vs marg before the knockout. people forget that

What fight were you watching? Mosley beat his ass from pillar to post. Complete domination..

[Nay_Sayer]

well judah was coming off a loss to a bum but floyd had no issues fighting him still. baldomr was obv one of the worst fighters ever to hold the "prestigious" lineal title cept it wasn't prestigious at all because marg was #1 the whole time but mayorga-spinks-judah-baldomir, etc...never fought him and it just got completely watered down playing hot potato

When did that happen? I distinctly remember Cheatarito dropping a decision to Paul Williams during this time frame - so exactly when was Cheatarito allegely the #1 WW in the world again?