Can Arum, Roach and HBO remake Mosley’s image, turning him into a good opponent for Pacquiao?
December 22nd, 2010
By Jason Kim: It’s going to be interesting to see how Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, trainer Freddie Roach and HBO work together to try and turn Shane Mosley into a dangerous looking opponent for WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao to fight on May 7th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. On paper, Mosley appears to be a terrible opponent for Pacquiao, a huge step down from the guys that have been fed to the Filipino star in the past year.
The trick here is to make Mosley look like a monster by showing his earlier fights in his career and emphasizing how strong he is on the inside when throwing combinations. Roach is already off to an early start in remaking Mosley, saying he thinks Mosley is a tougher fight than Juan Manuel Marquez and Andre Berto. I don’t believe that for a second. I would buy what Roach is saying if he didn’t say in the past that Clottey would be a more interesting fight than Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
I knew going into that fight what Clottey would do, which turned out to be nothing as he just covered up all night long and played the part of a punching bag. This is why I can’t take Roach seriously now that he’s hyping Mosley as Pacquiao’s opponent. They want this fight to get huge pay-per-view numbers, but the problem is they weren’t willing to match Pacquiao up against someone with the chance of beating him. Mosley really stunk out the joint in his last two fights against Mayweather and Sergio Mora.
If the casual fan has any memory at all of Mosley from those fights, they’ll stay away from Pacquiao-Mosley in droves and will save their hard-earned money by not purchasing what will likely be a very expensive fight on PPV. They haven’t put a price on the Pacquiao vs. Mosley fight yet, but based on the huge prices put on Pacquiao’s recent fights, I’d be willing to bet that it will go for around $55. That’s a lot of money to pay to see a poor fight between a fighter in his prime against a fighter that’s over-the-hill.
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24/7 is mayweather pac girl fights donot make any money so how is the p4p fighter fight dont make any money
LOL because Manny was so fast that he didn’t get caught by Margarito?
Pinoy, please.
@John where’s mayweather that’s who he’s tuning up for. Unless ure saying mayweather is really not going to step in and fight pacquiao. Your not just a casual fan that has no knowledge your a casual mayweather fan who has no knowledge. All I’m saying is that’s who pacquiao wants to face but Floyd loves to get on uverse and YouTube to say what he would do. Now the hard part us getting in that ring and actually doing it
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Nope, cant be done
i know a guy named martinez who is no bigger then margarito but actually has some skills, guess thats why pac wont fight him
are you serious?! yeah marg & martinez are a simlar height, but size????
martinez’ frame is alot bigger than margarito! get up with the play dude. how many fights at 147 has martinez had?
thats right… quit with the bs! and didnt margarito BEAT MARTINEZ by KO!
rest my case
What does Holyfield, Mosley and Pacman all have in common?
any guess…anyone…
OK.
They all have big heads.
They’d probably need a full season of 24/7 to hype this garbage.
If Clottey , Cotto or Margarito couldn’t Ko Pacquiao than Mosley won’t even put a dent. What you people seem not to notice is HGH gives you a higher bone density which has made Pacquiao head much larger. His bone density is that of a Light heavy or heavy wieght that is why neiether of these 3 can hurt him. I looked at a picture of Pacquiao head compared to 130 and present and it looks like it has doubled in size. I like Pacquiao but I’m using common sense here.
Have you seen how Uncle Bob has remade Margo’s image which resulted to 1.15 million PPVs. Is this just Uncle Bob’s magic choice of opponents or is it something else???
So, this almost 80 year old veteran promoter will once again pull his rabbit out of his hat in remaking Mosley’s image. OR IS IT????
Could it be that the name MANNY PACQUIAO is good enough to make this fight a success? GBP is willing to stand aside from their May 7 booking for Uncle Bob as PACMAN will be in Vegas.
Nope, cant be done
i know a guy named martinez who is no bigger then margarito but actually has some skills, guess thats why pac wont fight him
It’s all about the Payday yeah just ask Floyd
@ john
who should pac hav fought with mayweather being MIA??
pacquiao is damned if he does and damned if he doesnt!
he could knock mayweather out stone cold and still you guys will find something to complain about.
be happy, hes entertaining being top class and world class opposition against the odds and hes fighting every 6 months! whats the problem? oohhhh, hes not losing! thought so
@ haroon,
“Mosley is a very, very dangerous opponent but one whose age has caught up with him. If Mosley catches Pacquaio early he could knock him out. People will then question everything Pacquaio has achieved.”
Your above comments just re-affirmed what Arum and company are thinking on how to market the fight. Plus, your overall comments are the same thing as many folks had said about the Pacquiao and Margarito Fight, which eventually turned out to be good for all company (top rank, Pacquiao and Margarito).
What missing on your analysis is incorporating your comments and analyzing what Arum is thinking.
@ Haroon Abbasi
make sense dude! you say this is a dangerous fight for pac but that its a bad match up and a bad fight???
theres nothing wrong with this fight
to pac haters
theres really no helping guys like you is there?
you all called for pacquiao to fight a black american and now he is and the excuses begin. this is a great match up. yeah mosely has seen better days no denying that but its not pac’s fault.
they want mayweather, they always have but he wont come to the party. team pac have agreed to pretty much all of mayweathers demands of random blood testing, bar the last 7 days of the fight, but will continue straight after the fight. theres no ped out there that can have any real effect on an athlete within those 7 days and be out of there system post fight. the fact that pacquiao doesnt want to give blood so close to the fight is his superstition that he stated 5 odd years ago!
back to pac’s options: marquez overpriced himself and has only beaten one A-List guy. thats barrerra and that was debatable. they’ve had 2 fights and marquez hasnt won 1. with the first fight only a draw because of an admmitted scoring error! marquez is a 135lb fighter and cant draw a dime (just look at his last fight and the half empty arena) while pacquiao is now 2 divisions higher.
berto hasnt fought anybody and doesnt draw a dime! forget about it. tell him to beat somebody that matters!
martinez is a middleweight for gods sake and cant make 150lbs (which was to big for pacman, just look at the margarito bout. marg was like 20lbs heavier in the bout).
mosley has seen better days but is a top class fighter and is a huge name. the fight makes sense. after mosely it will be probably marquez next and if floyd still wont come to the party it will be berto (if he beats somebody) or retirement.
@john
hahaha that was awesome!
this is a tune up fight?…hmmm…that will be four in a row(tune up fights)
hbo will work magic to make it seem like mosley is a threat,like you said,they’ll show his past fight,wouldn’t doubt for a minute they show the oscar fight,and of course the pac fans will be like “wow”.and the casual fans will believe the hype because they are just that,casual fans without real knowledge
Excellent choice. While waiting for Mayweather. A great tune-up fight at the same time Pacman gets paid millions of dollars.