Mosley vs. Mora on 9/18: Does anyone care about this fight?
August 19th, 2010
By Dan Ambrose: Shane Mosley (46-6, 39 KO’s) may not have been thinking straight when he chose former World Boxing Council junior middleweight champion Sergio Mora (22-1, 6 KO’s) to fight on September 18th, instead of someone from his own weight class who is more likely to stand in front of him and give him a traditional fight. Mosley will be turning 39 next month on September 7th, and looked dreadful in his last fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., losing by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision by the scores of 119-109, 118-110 and 119-109 on May 1st. Fans of Mosley point out that Mayweather often makes his opponents look bad, but Mosley didn’t just look bad, he looked old and tired. He looked like a textbook version of a shot fighter.
Mora is very beatable. In fact, I think a lot of guys from his own weight division would likely beat him, but it wouldn’t be easy. Mosley isn’t a junior middleweight, and that’s pretty much been established in his two losses to Winky Wright. Mosley is going to be giving up three inches in height to the 6’0” Mora, and that’s just the beginning of Mosley’s problems.
Boxing fans haven’t shown much interest in the Mosley-Mora fight. That’s something Mosley should have known before he agreed to fight Mora. If he wanted boxing fans to show interest in his next fight, he should have taken on Berto, Zab Judah or even a guy like International Boxing Federation welterweight champion Jan Zaveck, but not a non-champion like Mora. That’s a mistake fight and a bad decision if you ask me. Mora, 29, has fought only once in the past two years, beating little known Calvin Green in a 7th round stoppage last April.
Before that, Mora hadn’t fought since losing a 12 round decision to Vernon Forrest in September 2008. So Mosley has an opponent that boxing fans haven’t seen much of in the past two years, and who has a fighting style that’s not appealing and is very hard to beat. I think Mosley is going to lose and look bad in doing so. He’s going to be asking himself afterwards why he chose Mora of all the fighters out there that he could have picked. I just hope Mosley doesn’t look as old as bad as he did in the Mayweather fight.
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Im a mosley fan but I had to admit it, Mora should have won the fight. No one knew this kat, I had only heard of him and for mosley to admit it was a draw, he knew mora should have won.
I am looking forward to the undercard fight. Canelo Alvarez vs. Carlos Baldomir will be a more interesting and exciting match than Mosley and Mora. El Canelo is the next up and coming prize fighter from Mexico that will take the boxing world to another level.
True Boxing fans knows it will be very intresting to watch
Cant wait should be Fun
You was a modern great Shane,now time to walk away.
Nobody cares about this fight, mainly nobody cares or knows who Sergio Mora is. Mora sucks, he’s a class C fighter in the ring with Mosely. De La Hoya and goldenboy are weak for putting this fight together, and are taking advatage of us boxing fans by putting this on pay-per-view. Dont buy this fight it is a joke, keep the money and take your family out to dinner. Mora is a joke and he is going to lose this fight.
Mosley always put up a good fight until Floyd.I blame it on his trainer because he didnt give him the winning formula.Between rounds he was challening him to fight harder but the trainer wasnt telling him how to go about it.To ans the question I will always care about a Mosley fight.
Mayweather makes everybody look shot. But this time Mayweather didnt look all that against Mosley either
Shouldn’t be a PPV, but interesting fight.
About as much as Adamek Grant.
Hope the sugar man is back if not knock it on the head.
goldenboy promotion is done, if floyd leaves them for don king, they’ll have no one except for khan and mosley. who knows maybe they’ll lure hatton back into the ring. i dont understand why people are always criticizing arum for fighting his fighters with in house boxer when goldenboy does the same thing, just look at the last 4 guys floyd fought. all goldenboy members/
golden boy has no fighters that why they cant rest mosley he looks like he dont want to fight whitch is good cuz we dont want to watch the fight espacially on ppv
I haven’t read this article yet (or the comments), but Mora is probably going to win (partially because of the size difference, partially because of his fighting spirit, and partially because of his slick, herky-jerky, fast punching, technique – all of which Mosley has had trouble with, and he’s never fought one fighter with ALL of these characteristics as far as I can remember).
To answer the author’s question, I care about this fight because it pits two good fighters against one another, but it should not be a PPV event (unless there are some REAL competitive undercards).
mosley will ko sergio because of the slick punches mora wont see
Well i think the fight is great. You wonder why mosley pick sergio, is because mosley is a guy who wanna test his skills against ANY fighter unlike packiao, and because of the speed and quickness if MAYWEATHER was the reason mosley looked old, the movements in the ring. mayweather is not your average foghter!!!!! he’s too quick for packiao, and way to skilled for him also and that’s the difference, not mosley’s age. mayweather stood toe to toe with mosley but he kept range and his timing with his amazing talent is the main reason. I think mosley will be impressive because i feel like he has something to prove here IS the reason for his selection, peace
For sure I do care about this fight more than Pac Vs Margarito. Sergio will shut lots of your aholes mouth just wait and watch.
i do…well more than Pacquiao VS Margarito
great article!
If you pay for this fight, you are an idiot, even if you are a millionare
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mosley is not shot MAYWEATHER makes everyone he fights look like that i think mosley will shock alot of people again in this fight just like he did with margarito just watch. mora does not have the kind of defense that floyd had so mosley will hit him hard all night.
mosley is badly shot sergio will win a clear decision
Hopefully Shane can close the gap and trap Mora a few times, maybe a late KO. A points win, though, would be tough against a slippery guy like him.
No, this fight blows, I have no idea what the hell a ‘contender’ like Mora (who totally blows) is doing in a fight with a future Hall of Famer.
Latin Fake, I hope you get KTFO.
please tell me this is not PPV .
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The fight certainly won’t go down in the annals of boxing history as ‘one of those special fight’s', but it will keep the money rolling in and provide a payday for all concerned.