Berto vs. Mosley on January 30th
October 6th, 2009
By Dave Lahr: After wasting much of the past year fruitlessly attempting to land fights against Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr., WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley will have to settle for fighting a unification match against World Boxing Council title holder Andre Berto (25-0, 19 KO’s) on January 30th, according to latest boxing news.
Pacquiao prefers to fight Miguel Cotto, a fighter who beat Mosley two years ago by a 12 round decision. That fight was very close and at the end, Cotto was running from Mosley in the last four rounds and didn’t look at all like the superior fighter at the end of the fight. Cotto got the win but failed to show that he was superior.
Since then, Cotto was badly beaten in his fight with Antonio Margarito, a beating that many boxing experts feel Cotto still hasn’t recovered from. This is perhaps why many boxing fans wonder why Pacquiao decided to fight Cotto right now instead of Mosley, who is coming off a 9th round stoppage of Margarito last January.
Mayweather chose to fight the smaller Juan Manuel Marquez instead of facing Mosley. It looked as if Mayweather was looking for an easier fight for his first bout back following a two year layoff. Mosley called Mayweather out after Mayweather’s one-sided 12 round decision over Marquez last month, but Mayweather looks to be waiting on the outcome of the Cotto vs.
Pacquiao before making a decision whom he’ll fight next. It looks a lot like it’s going to be Pacquiao. Mosley likely won’t be an option for Mayweather at any point from now on, because Mayweather might end up moving into the sunset again if he can big up a lot of loot in a fight against Pacquiao.
Berto, 26, has looked remarkably average and incredibly boring since picking up the World Boxing Council welterweight title last year in June. While he used to be a flashy fighter who threw a lot of blazing fast combinations, he’s now a punch and clinch fighter for the most part. His bouts are often painful to watch because they’re so boring. He’s beaten Steve Forbes, Luis Collazo and Juan Urango in his three title defenses and looked terrible in each of the fights.
Collazo almost beat Berto, which kind of suggests that Berto won’t be holding onto his title for long. The WBC is loaded with dreadful fighters almost in the entirety, but even as bad as the top 15 contenders are, each one of them is a threat to beat a fighter like Berto. Mosley is going to kill Berto. This is going to be a mismatch. Of all Berto’s fights that have been shown on HBO, this is the only one that I feel is watchable.
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by the way berto is a fast as mayweather and hits way harder mayweather and mosley are a lot more seasoned than berto but with tony morgan in his corner berto will be foaming at the mouth come fight time shane was one hell of a champ might be his last fight
who ever wrote this is an idiot he said bertos last three figths were boring berto collazo was probally fight of the year steve was his first big test and urango is a monster that you better hold or you will end up like randall bailey did after berto fought urango in his house and collazo would have gave mosley fits but broke his hand it the second berto mauls mosley quote me
Seen alot of boxing matches, seen a lot of berto and seen a lot of shane. Wanna know the truth. The fight will go either way. Berto has shown excellent SPEED and POWER, sure he hasn’t fought super top dogs, but everyone is human, anyone can get KTFO, but Mosley on the other had has some sort of miraculus second wind, he has come off of 2 very big knock outs, sure later on in the fight but either way spectacular. fight plans, berto needs to use less clinch and more speed, his youth should have the perks of a lil extra speed, and power is a definite, but if he fights reckless then mosley will capitalize, but same for mosley, if he just tries to run over a pitbull like berto he will see what it’s like to choke on some teeth, but if he fights as he did margarito(who i believe is not near as quick or as powerful as berto), i couldn’t see anything but another spectacular finish.(besides the fact that berto has crushing punches)
But won’t matter as Kell Brook’s going to take the welterweight division apart in the next 24 months anyway.
Footwork is going to be the difference in the fight – Berto will struggle to get his range and Moseley will soften him up from a distance before finishing it in the later rounds just like he did with Margarito. Berto’s quicker than Antonio, but won’t have taken shots as hard as Moseley’s or as often, Shane’s taken hard shots from a prime De La Hoya, Winky Wright, Cotto etc etc. No chance he’ll be stopped plus Berto’s way way slower on his feet. Great fight for Shane to take – puts him in the perfect position beating an up and coming talent like Berto. Berto took the fight too soon – should’ve waited a year or two to gith Shane after he’d been in with PBF and Pacman or Cotto again.
Floyd’s going to have even more difficulty in claiming to be the best welterweight now hey? Moseley knows he can’t avoid him if he holds both belts. Berto doesn’t have the speed to beat Moseley and Moseley’s got one of the best chins in the business. Berto’s good but his footwork sucks and Shane’s going to dance rings round him.
berto is a good fighter but i think Mosley will have faster hands and that i think will mack the difference in this fight but ho knows ever way good match up and one i will definitely not miss
Berto has good speed but his defence and power are very questionable!
Pac too Cotto because they are both with top rank & also, it will still generate more cash then against Mosley. Mosley has looked very good recently, and by his own admission, he is better now then when on the roids!
I dont think taking steroids would benefit you in the sport of boxing because the extra strength you would gain you would lose speed and speed is more important.
anon Says:
October 7th, 2009 at 7:03 am
i dont know why mosley is getting so much credit nowadays, he has oly beat 1 top welter,not beat cotto,clottey,berto,cintron or williams.yet every1 is ducking him? whatever makes him and you bandwagon fans feel better.
anon, what top welterweight fighter has Mayweather fought? PERIOD!
Mosley vs Cotto should have been a draw!
Mosley at least Ko’d Margarito.
You’re probably one of those Mayweather nut-huggin fans..
This is a good fight for Mosley. If he is not fighting Mayweather, then might as well collect belts, which will make the Mayweather fight more likely to happen. I’m not very impressed with Berto… only thing going for him is youth. If Mosley can KO Berto, he would increase his public appeal. Perhaps the winner of this unification fights the winner of Cotto-Pac for undisputed champ.
BERTO WILL BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF MR.STEROIDS.
Mosley is going to beat the sh-t out of Berto, Berto find someone to fight not Mosley and if this fight happen Berto is going to be on the losing end.
Bertoad will beet shane and it is as simple as that!!!
good fight!! but i wanted mayweather vs mosley then the winer could face cotto when he schools pacman..lol!!!!!
i dont know why mosley is getting so much credit nowadays, he has oly beat 1 top welter,not beat cotto,clottey,berto,cintron or williams.yet every1 is ducking him? whatever makes him and you bandwagon fans feel better.
I like this matchup, a true welterweight fight. It’s not like welter FMJ vs lightweight Marquez or bulldog Cotto vs recent bighead Pacquiao.
Why do you consider Mosley vs Berto as settling, IF it’s not all about MONEY!!! It’s not their problem that Jin broke that chump!!! He should be trying to unify the belts……Then and only then can he command anything!!!! Mayweather has no belt….Pacquiao has no belt( and won’t have one after Nov 14th..) That solves all of his problems…end of story!!