Shane Mosley Needs to Get Back In the Ring
August 7th, 2009
By Jason Kim: WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO’s) needs to make a decision about whom he wants to fight next and get back in the ring and start fighting. It’s been seven months since Mosley defeated Antonio Margarito by a 9th round stoppage to win his WBA title, yet he’s still has no fight picked out for his next fight after all this time.
Mosley turns 38 next month and needs to start moving forward with his career because he doesn’t have a lot of time left before he starts showing his age. Mosley wasted a lot of precious time recently pursuing Manny Pacquiao, as if the Filipino star would actually give him a fight.
It was pretty clear at once that Pacquiao had no interest in fighting Mosley, despite the fact that Mosley was willing to take much less of a pay cut than Pacquiao’s next opponent Miguel Cotto and was also willing to fight Pacquiao at a 140 pound catch weight, which would have made Pacquiao’s job much easier.
However, Pacquiao wasn’t interested in the fight, perhaps seeing how easily Mosley dispatched Margarito in January and deciding that it might not be a good thing to tangle with a still game fighter like Mosley rather than the shot fighters that Pacquiao had recently been beating. With that time pretty much a waste, Mosley now has to hurry up and fight another opponent to fight.
The word is he could be fighting WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto in a unification match next, but the problem with that fight is that it likely won’t take place until early 2010. That’s not good for a fighter Mosley’s age. He needs something now to keep busy and make some money. Former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron would be the perfect opponent for Mosley to fight in the meantime.
Cintron is coming off one of his best wins of his career with a surprise 12 round decision upset over the previously unbeaten light welterweight contender Alfredo Angulo and is the hot fighter right now. Boxing fans have pretty much forgotten Cintron’s poor performance against Sergio Martinez in February in which Cintron appeared to be knocked out in the 9th round by a right hand from Martinez.
Cintron complained that the knockout was caused by a head butt, and the referee let him continue, even though replays showed that it was a hard right hand that knocked Cintron down, not a head butt. Cintron has since redeemed himself somewhat with his win over Angulo, so he’d be perfect for Mosley to fight right now. Cintron is a good fighter, but he’s probably not on the level of Mosley.
Cintron doesn’t have the size that bigger fighters like Vernon Forrest and Winky Wright do, both of whom beat Mosley in the past. Cintron is the type of fighter that Mosley could crowd and get in a lot of fast shots to take advantage of his slightly slower hand speed. The best part about it is that Cintron is reportedly interested in fighting Mosley, so it wouldn’t be a case where Mosley would have to waste time trying to convince Kermit to fight him like Mosley was unable to do with Pacquiao.
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hey Mr. Rich – I saw the video that Pac “agreed” to fight Mosley…and it went something like this…Reporter “would you fight Shane Mosley” Pacquiao “Sure I would fight Mosley, I would fight anyone”. The next day, reports on 3 boxing sites “Pacquiao Agrees to Fight Mosley”…You can chose to believe that Pacquiao is scared to fight Mosley…I chose to believe that Arum has had Cotto in his crosshairs since he also promotes Cotto and he wouldn’t need to split the pot with Golden Boy, or any other promoter for that reason…Even before the Hatton fight, Arum’s only been naming his fighters, witht he exception of Mayweather, as possible oppponents for Pacquiao. Even Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. So I don’t think that Pacquiao is scared of Mosley so much as Arum is choosing to line his pockets as much as he possibly can.
In all fairness the fight was a done deal with Pacman having verbally agreed with Mosley, then Pacquiao back tracked on his word…. that not being the 1st time he has done that. Now you are right if Pacquiao did fight a 140 drained mosley he wouldnt get any credit for that, so why didnt he fight mosley at 145 instead of cotto. Now you could say that Cotto already beat Mosley so why bother. Now that was a while ago and since then Mosley has beat the guy who beat Cotto, be it a questionable win. The truth is that Mosley at the moment is the more dangerous fighter of the two and Pacqiao is scared to fight Mosley. Just like people go on about Mayweather not fighting the very best, now the same can be said for Pacqiao. Shame all these so called p4p champions dont step up to the challenege like you would expect them to.
Jesus Christ…can someone write an article on here without bashing Pacquiao? This article is about Mosley needing to find a new opponent, and some how a mention of Pacquiao only fighting shot fighters gets mentioned. Maybe Pac knew that he wouldn’t get credit fighting a 38 year old fighter who comes down in weight to 140..can you imagine what people would write IF Pac beats Mosley? Old and weight drained…sound familiar? Just when the other dude, started to give this site credibility, you have another hack saw writer hating on Pac when he’s not even the point of the article. Sad.
Shane Mosley can not beat african americans boxers Mosley can beat latian boxers but all lost are african american boxers ,so to me Mosley learn to fight black boxers
Mosley needs to be back fighting and if the Pavlik fight falls through for “The Punisher”, then Williams should drop back to WW to box Mosley in a mouthwatering scrap!
Cotto beat Mosley, put that in your mind! It’s logical for Pacquiao to choose Cotto instead of mosley.
Don’t get near on Perez And Santiago.
Joshua Clotey had a controversial fight with cotto.
So he deserves another shot. But mosley knows he is too dangerous and not a ticket seller.
What about unfinish bussines with Zab Juda.
There you go, two options.
Cintron is a 154, and martinez too. The 154 division needs them, so should stay there.
I’d love to see this one. Cintron is indeed interested in this fight. He’s ready right now! Cintron doesn’t have the size? Forest- 6’0″ 73 reach….Cintron – 5’11″ 74 reach. Cintron has the size and style to create problems for Mosley. He also still has the pure power to end the fight which is what I predict will happen if this fight happens. Cintron wins by mid to late KO! You know what…it might even be an early one? I hope it happens.
Shane does Not deserve this. He did everything he could to get Pacman in the ring. I hope Shane can find a fight to motivate him. Shane has ALWAYS been a true champ w/ the Heart of a lion. I know he’d light Pacman up in the mid to late rounds.
Mosley should just unify the welter weight div starting with Berto.
Get Berto’s WBC welter title and move on from there.
Maybe after Mosley unify’s then Pac would be more interested in Shane…Doubt it…
its disgusting that shane hasnt got a fight yet. all his career he fought anybody and always gave guys nobody would touch, a shot at the big-time like forrest and then winky who b-hop had been ducking and didnt give winky the fight intill years later and even had to make it at light heavy. now once again shane is the elite fighter on the planet(has been from day one) and all the supposed names your pacs and mayweathers wont touch him cos deep down they know the outcome. theyd rather have easy nights and bigger paydays fighting amongst themselves. its a the no1 reason why people dont watch as much boxing now the best dont fight the best. infact the supposed best just fight mediocre guys or totally wasted legends to pad their records.
So true, get back in the ring Shane!!
Same can be said about a lot of boxers at the moment though…….so dull, no fight from guys you want to see
What about Mosley – Martinez???