Mayweather vs Mosley

This past weekend we were all able to witness the “fight of the decade,” aka the consolation to not seeing Mayweather vs Pacquiao. The fight featured two prominent boxers,” Sugar” Shane Mosley and arguably the best boxer of all-time Floyd Mayweather Jr.

The fight generated a lot of hype but I never really bought into it. I’m a firm believer that there is only one boxer on the planet that has a chance to beat Floyd Mayweather Jr, and that is Manny Pacquiao. Note I said chance, if they ever do fight, I have my money on Mayweather, but at least Pacquiao has a chance.

Shane Mosley is an accomplished fighter and I respect what he has done throughout his career (46-6), but to be honest he is old. Anyone that honestly thought Mayweather was going to suffer his first loss to a 38 year old boxer is a fool in my opinion. I know Mosley won his last two fights against Antonio Margarito and Ricardo Mayorga by KO and TKO and showed that he can still compete at a high level but neither of those fighters are anywhere close to the caliber of fighter as Mayweather. I’m not even sure that Shane Mosley would have had a chance when he was in his prime, but regardless there isn’t really anyone else out to fight, so Mosley got his shot.

If you didn’t see the fight, you didn’t miss much. For the most part it was a typical Mayweather fight. Mayweather controlled the fight, dissected his opponent, and out classed his opponent, reassuring the viewers that he is the best boxer on the planet. Mosley showed signs of life in the initial first two rounds, as he pressed Mayweather and hit him with a few powerful blows. During these first two rounds, anyone that ordered the fight just knew they were going to get their money’s worth…Wrong… In the third round Mayweather woke up and did what he does best. As the fight went on, Mosley looked more and more fatigued and could not handle Mayweather’s speed or counter defense.

The bottom line is that boxing should not have any more pay-per-view fights until they give us what we really want, Mayweather vs. Pacquiao. If they aren’t going to give us the fight we want, I just ask they don’t tease us with these mediocre consolation fights, just so we spend our money.