Mosley: What Are Shane’s Options?
June 16th, 2009
By Eric Thomas: World Boxing Association welterweight champion Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO’s) appears to be all but left in the dust now that Manny Pacquiao is eyeing a bout against WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto in November. Mosley, 37, had been hoping to get a shot against Pacquiao and had even gone so far as to agree to come in at a catch weight against Pacquiao, a move that would have left Mosley at a handicap because he has problems just getting down to the 147 pound welterweight limit.
Unfortunately for Mosley, the WBA is one of the weakest in the welterweight division and there’s not a whole lot of quality opponents there other than Judah and Antonio Margarito, the latter of which has been suspended from boxing for a year.
Judah would be a good fight to stay busy with. Judah, 31, lost to Joshua Clottey by a 9th round technical decision in August 2008, and has since fought Ernest Johnson, beating him by a 10 round decision. Judah would give Mosley a named opponent for the short term.
It wouldn’t, though, give Mosley a huge name that he’s looking for because Judah has been beaten too many times in the past three years, losing four times since 2006. However, Judah still has his fast hands and can cause a fighter like Mosley problems if Judah can stay in the fight for the full duration.
Beyond Judah, there’s not a whole lot of reasons for Mosley to hold onto the WBA title, because he’d end up having to defend his title at some point against the likes of Nelson Linares, Rafal Jackiewicz, Hector Saldivia, Saul Alvarez, Yuri Nuzhnenko, Vitaly Demyanenko and Mike Jones. Those are just the top 10 fighters, the bottom part of the WBC is filled with a lot of unknown opponents.
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Mosley vs Williams, a nice start for Williams to come back to the welterweights and real action.
These are the match ups.
Mayweather jr. vs. Manny Pac.
Clottey vs. Cotto 2 / Clottey vs. Berto
Mosley vs. Cotto 2 /Mosley vs. Berto
Paul Williams vs. Kermit Cintron
Edwin Val vs. Juan Maquez
Mosley need to defend his belt against Paul Williams and stop running like he claim Mayweather is doing to him
well, he could always fight berto or clottey, although i think berto wouldn’t want to take the fight.
failing that he could go for the vacant IBF title or the vacant Ring Magazine title. if he couldn’t get those fights and really needed a stay busy fight he could go for jennings for his WBU title also.
Mosely get a catch weight fight with williams
Unfortunately, Mosley is the odd man out of the major Welter bouts that are coming soon. Even as an old man, Mosley is being avoided by most. Mosley would honestly school Berto in Boxing 101, although, I don’t think Mosley is interested in derailing a young Berto. Mosley knows that Berto is too unexperienced and is simply not ready for him. If Mosley can’t get the fight with Pacquaio, then he should fight Paul Williams and end all of this over-rated talk of the Punisher.
Mosley should face either Berto or Clottey! He would mop the flour with Berto and a fight against Clottey would intresting.
i totally agree wit duran fan that is my view exactlly
You forgot to mention on the news that its not Pac’s decision. It was Bob Arum who wants a Pacquiao-Cotto bout. Bob Arums like Boxing Economics and he wants the Money.
What does Shane have to do? Pacmans people wanted all there demands and Shane agreed. I know for a fact that if Shane trains right ,He mops up Pacman as styles make fights. I feel for Shane as he is a TRUE Champ who never ducked anyone. I knew that when the talk of pacman & Shane was thrown around that it would never happen. The cotto fight isn’t interesting in the least as it sure looks like cotto is shot. Mosley would provide the sternest challenge for pacman. GOD BLESS you Shane for showing what a class act you are.Shane already beat de la hoya in his prime and would have made Hatton look silly. I kinda am losing respect for Pacman as a cotto fight is useless… Please Pacman step it up & fight Shane…