By Dan Ambrose: 40-year-old former three division world champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley (46-7-1, 39 KO’s) believes that his experience and skills will reign supreme for him against 21-year-old WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s) on May 5th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mosley hasn’t had much luck in the ring in the past two years having lost two out of his last three fights against Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.
This fight will be on the undercard of the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto bout, and Mosley is hoping he can get a rematch with Cotto, who beat him in 2007. The rematch probably won’t happen if both Mosley and Cotto beat like a lot of boxing fans think they will. Perhaps the only reason Mosley got picked out to fight Canelo Alvarez in the first place is because of how shot Mosley has been looking. Although he tries to explain that he had an injury to his Achilles tendon in his loss to Manny Pacquiao May, it doesn’t explain how bad Mosley looked in fights against Mayweather and Sergio Mora in the past two years. He looked shot in both of those fights.
Mosley earned a 12 round draw against Sergio Mora in September 2010 in a fight that Mosley appeared to lose. More than a few boxing fans saw Mosley losing that fight, and you can make a strong argument that Mosley has really lost his last three fights. What you can’t dismiss is how truly awful Mosley has looked since 2010. He just looks shot and no longer moves or punches like he used to.
Mosley said this to eastsideboxing.com’s On the Ropes Boxing Radio Program: “I have a lot of experience. I’ve been fighting longer than Alvarez has been alive. So I think that I have a pretty good advantage over him…my son is same age as Alvarez…I just believe a fighter like Alvarez shouldn’t be really on my level.”
It looks like Mosley is confusing Alvarez’s youth as a sign that he can’t fight, because mentioning Alvarez as being the same age as his own son and constantly talking about having more experience than him. Mosley appears to be forgetting that boxing is for the most part a young man’s sport and an old fighter like Mosley is vulnerable to 21-year-old kids like Alvarez at this point in his career. The way Mosley is looking now, he would likely be vulnerable to guys even younger than Alvarez. Mosley isn’t what he once was and he really shuts down after two or three rounds. If Alvarez can stay on his feet past the 3rd round, he’s going to be in a good shape to beat Mosley by a lopsided decision in this fight.
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