39-year-Mosley having a good training camp ahead of Pacquiao fight
March 21st, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: With 39-year-old Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s) poised to get his biggest payday of his 18-year pro career against World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KO’s) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Mosley is reportedly having one of his best training camps in ages. Mosley is coming off of back to back poor performances against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Sergio Mora in 2010 in which Mosley looked every bit of advanced age.
I’m hoping that Mosley can find the fountain of youth but given how bad he looked in his last two fights and how old he is now, I just can’t see that happening. I’m mostly just disappointed in Pacquiao and his team for having picked out a guy who so clearly is looking faded. It isn’t like Pacquiao needs the little bit of extra money that a fight against someone like Mosley would bring him. He’s rich and not hurting for money and neither his promoter.
This isn’t the best fight out there for Pacquiao in terms of a competitive match-up. Maybe it is as far as getting a little bit more money than say fighting a guy like WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto, but the little bit of extra money isn’t worth it in my view when there potential is high that the fight will be a one-sided affair with Pacquiao easily beating up the nearly 40 Mosley and boxing fans ending up pissed off.
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Midgit pacman will get knock the f out
I am a Pacquiao fan, but i agree with the writer!
@Fan, any attorney in the country would like this case. Hear say, inuendo, etc, etc…It will get thrown out, then the world will pile on even worse that Pacquiao is a drug abuser, steroid user, cheater, and scam artist.
He’s a lousy bum and the world knows it!
@yourmoms favorite, FOR ONCE…HOW ABOUT A YOUNG, FAST, STRONG, UNDEFEATED OPPONENT ON THE WAY UP RATHER THAN ON THE WAY DOWN?
JOKE, LOSER, HYPED UP, MEDIA CREATION, C+ FIGHTER….
THAT IS PACQUIAO’S LEGACY!
@Crickets on May 8th
what in the hell are you talkin about?? what advantage did he have in the ring with margarito who is a welterweight?? so he didnt have to cut weight to make the fight??? make some sense when youre writing for goodness sakes…so manny is overhyped and the media helped his talents grow….interesting concept all along i thought it was from his hard work and training that he got good…im glad i found this out that it was the media (ahhh) that created his unheard of skill…i need to find me a PR agent asap…
@Boxer…Pacquiao is a JOKE and THE WORLD’D BIGGEST COWARD! PACQUIAO MUST HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OR HE WON’T FIGHT PERIOD!!!
MARTINEZ AT 150? HIS NEXT OPPONENT IS ROBERTO DURAN AT 140!
HAVEN’T YOU CAUGHT ON YET? THE WORLD OUTSIDE OF THE PILIPINES IS AWARE OF THIS MIDGET COWARD, HYPED UP MEDIA CREATION.
HE DESERVES TO GET KO’D BY 39 YEAR OLD MOSELY!!! THIS WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY GREAT FOR BOXING!!!
Martinez should step up in weight class and fight Bute or Ward to get his position in #1 P4P ranking. He should man up and stop calling Pacquiao or Mayweather. P4P is about fighting and dominating different weight classes, not calling fighters in lower W. classes. Martinez is good, no doubt about it but he fought Dzinziruk who is ranked at #8 in middleweight and atleast Pacquiao is fighting Mosley who is ranked #5 in WW.
Pacquioa should not be fighting old Mosley. It was not right for FMJ to fight him and its even worse that Pacquioa is fighting him after he ran out of gas in round one fighting Mora. This is really sad.
Pacqioa should be fighting Sergio Martinez at 150.
If Mosely connects with that overhand right…HOSPITAL HERE HE COMES!
IMHO, I think Pacquiao has a great chance of going to the hospital!!!
Mosley is a two bit crack head
N!gg nogg that pac will put in hospital
@Fan, let’s see what happens. I know you idolize Pacquiao and dring big gulps of the Kool-Aid. The world outside of you and your brethren in the Pilipines knows the scam of Arum/Roach and Pacquiao.
I only want what your idol/Arum and Roach have coming to them. A KO at the hands of Sugar Shane Mosely, and “THE END TO THE MEALTRAIN”.
I am one of those hoping for the unexpected! Mosely can turn back the sands of time by training like a freak!
Upset this clown…SHAKE UP THE WORLD OF BOXING!
LET’S ALL SEE WHAY HAPPENS!
We all know Mosley was “too good” for Pac a few years ago according to Freddie Roach. There is a reason that Pac NOW in 2011 wants a shot 39 year old Mosley as Mayweather and Mora made it pretty clear.
Next up for Pac after Mosley is a LW in JMM at WW (something Mayweather already was bashed for?) Pac wont even fight JMM at a catchweight? Pac’s demanding this LW move up when Pac wouldnt even move up to fight Cotto at 147 for the title.
Bottom line, Mosley’s old and looking for a pay check while JMM can’t fight above 140.
@ F.L.A.-WE-DON’T-PLAY says:
March 21, 2011 at 12:21 pm
here’s another:
Foreal (and i’m sure many floydiots agree with him) said that floyd went into retirement because of boredom because there was no opposition anymore). so following their logic, JMM is an opposition but not pac, cotto, clottey and margarito LOL!!!
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i’m a floyd fan and all of you know that. i didn’t agree with that statement of f@cking Foreal whoever he is. that’s a dumb statement coming from a dumb person!
here’s another:
Foreal (and i’m sure many floydiots agree with him) said that floyd went into retirement because of boredom because there was no opposition anymore). so following their logic, JMM is an opposition but not pac, cotto, clottey and margarito LOL!!!
@Kantoboy
It’s neither. There is nothing stupid about the RBT request and the Mayweather family though they may not be liked personally by everyone, surely have earned the respect in the boxing community for their boxing accomplishments alone. The reason why there is no discussion is because Pacquiao has refused to take the test and Mayweather has refused to drop his demands for testing. It’s as simple as that, end of story. At this point, I think people are looking forward to the upcoming fights that are schedule, and given Mayweather’s issues, and if he’s smart as I assume he is, he should be talking to his attorney about his case, instead of Arum of Arum about a fight with Pacquiao or anyone.
….and another:
floyd bragged about fighting the winner of PWill-Martinez fight (it was all in the news). but after martinez KO’d PWill, floyd and his handful of believers went on silent mode. now they are saying floyd didn’t say he wants that fight…lol!!!
another stupidity of the floydiots:
they say floyd is not threatened by manny, as what floyd tells them. but look at all of floyd’s actions, they tell us how dead scared floyd of manny is. (not only manny but margarito, cotto, clottey and martinez as well).
I know it’s a little out of the topic but my question is; How come it has been already over a year since the Mayweathers RBT bandwagon and still nothing has changed? Is it because it’s either a stupid demand or the boxingworld just don’t have any respect for the Mayweathers?
@ Sean says:
March 21, 2011 at 8:16 am
@F.L.A; Manny isn’t a threat, only you believe he is. The smartest fighter in the game doesn’t have to feel threatened by a 108 pound fighter with 3 loses and 2 draws?
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not threatened? so why is floyd avoiding pac? why floyd doesn’t want to drop rbt? why can’t floyd look for alternatives for rbt? why insist on rbt and saying he can beat pac juice or no juice? ahhh…we know the answer. if floyd look for a way for his match with pac to come into fruition, it is the same as looking for his death. floyd is dead scared of pac FACT! only mor@ns didn’t see this.
@Buster! only fools believe on Mayweathers! or you are of one Mayweathers clan!
OK i never even mentioned PAC. You are just a nut. Go lap Floyds nuts with your tung. You are obsessed with discrediting the best fighter in the sport. Without any evidence other than Floyds ramblings.
@Moo, Bri,,,your both idiots and believe what ever Mayweathers clan says!!! its good the fight is happening is US not Asia!
@ Buster
Every title fight has testing before and after the fight. Just not BLOOD testing dumbie.
@Bri, remember, there will not be testing during this fight. Both will be on the pellets. It should be fun to watch.
wasnt mosley also having a great camp before the floyd camp??????? wont matter he is done. hopefully not though. hopefully he made a call to conte before this fight.
@F.L.A; Manny isn’t a threat, only you believe he is. The smartest fighter in the game doesn’t have to feel threatened by a 108 pound fighter with 3 loses and 2 draws?
@Steroids, you may be right about the weight issue, but I am hoping that he can cut the weight early, have his body adapt, and fight a tough fight.
WE WILL CROWN A NEW CHAMPION…
If Mosely can turn the clock back just 3 years, just 3 years…
WE WILL CROWN A NEW CHAMPION!!!
just let the fight happen to see what mosley can show…His record shows greatness as a boxer, although previous performance were not good..Is it not good or it’s just so happened that he fought tough fighter?..lets give him the floor, no body knows what will happen in the fight..but for me, im in favor of pacquiao to win over shane…
wanna see how stupid the floydiots are? expect them to post something here justifying their stupidity lol!!!
…and expect them to forget the meaning of originality.
and another:
floyd and the floydiots bragged about fighting the winner of PWill-Martinez fight. after sergio demolished PWill in 2nd round, floyd and the floydiots went on silent mode hahaha…
here’s another one of their stupidity:
they said pac is avoiding the klits lol!!!
another stupidity of the floydiots:
they believe whatever floyd says about fighting manny, that he will easily beat pac. but these same floydiots don’t see floyd’s action(which speak louder of course) of avoiding ALL threats…lol!!!
look at how stupid the floydiots are… they say manny will be facing an old mosley but they can’t say the same when floyd fought sugar shane. now they are saying mosley is training hard, we can expect them to say mosley will humiliate pac or KO manny, but after the fight, we can also expect excuses for them just like the excuses they are making for floyd avoiding ALL threats lol!!!
Gents, I’m going to have to disagree with those who fail to give Shane Mosley a fighter’s chance let alone those who feel that Manny Pacquiao is going to knock SSM out. I’ve witnessed previous posting about Mosley’s age – Blah, Blah Blah! The point is – 39 is a number / I’m 40yrs old and I feel just as young as I did “physically” as when I was 25! What I’ve determined from SSM is that more than age – I feel it’s his mental focus that has failed him in his previous fights. Agains FMJ I feel he lost his focus the minute he had FMJ hurt in the 2nd round and basically went balls-to-the-walls trying for the knockout – it ended up being to his demise; he never regained that focus to try to set up that right hook again…instead he went head-hunting and gassed-out trying to end it early. For the Mora fight; everyone that knows boxing will attest to the fact that Mosley has always had problems with guys that are taller; have a descent jab; and have movement – not to mention that Sergio Mora is just a bad fighter to look good against. My point is – that I would not be suprised if SSM comes out with the help of Richardson and put together the perfect plan and have Mosley time Manny’s shots for the perfect counter while Manny is throwing his usual barrage of shots….and don’t be suprised if Manny gets caught with a punch he doesn’t see and goes to sleep. Any puncher can be knocked out with a punch he doesn’t see and SSM timing his shot’s / a perfect counter with 8oz gloves…..it could be very interesting what happens…we will soon find out gents….cuidate!
hey ambrose..then don’t watch, numbnuts!
Ahhhhh….what with this again? I thought the issue is how hard Mosley is training?
Mosley needs to go back to steroids. Remmember,the only reason Mosley is where he is today,is cause steroids gave him that boost. No respect for OLDsley. But I hope he wins,I’m sick of PAC.
This is just a safer bout for Manny than anything else. How ever hard Mosley trains is not a factor, Mosley is done.