Liam Smith’s trainer wants Mosley in early 2016

By Boxing News - 10/28/2015 - Comments

mosley43443By Scott Gilfoid: Joe Gallagher, the trainer for WBO light middleweight champion Liam Smith (21-0-1, 11 KOs), says he’s interested in seeing Smith face 44-year-old #7 WBA welterweight contender “Sugar” Shane Mosley (48-9-1, 40 KOs) sometime in early 2016. Smith recently captured the vacant WBO 154lb title by beating John Thompson earlier this month by a 7th round knockout on October 10th.

Smith will be back in the ring on December 19th against an opponent still to be determined at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK. They don’t want Mosley at that time. They want him later on next year. Gallagher thinks that Mosley is a big name that would be a fine addition to Smith’s resume.

He also feels that it will attract a lot of fans in Liverpool. Mosley has only fought once in the past two years in beating 42-year-old Ricardo Mayorga last August. We learned nothing from watching that fight other than the fact that Mosley could beat a bloated, old and badly out of shape Mayorga.

As far as I can tell, Mosley looked like the same shot fighter that Anthony Mundine stopped in 2013. The only difference is that Mosley was fighting someone even more shot than himself.

“I think it’s a good fight for Liam Smith but I don’t think it’s one for December,” Gallagher said to skysports.com. “I feel it should be next year in Liverpool, topping the bill. If not, then April or May at Anfield. Shane Mosley is a big name and I feel a lot of people would come out to watch him box.”

I don’t understand why Gallagher wants Smith to fight an old 44-year-old small welterweight like Mosley, who started his career out as a lightweight. Shouldn’t Liam Smith be fighting at junior middleweights like Vanes Martirosyan, Julian Williams, Jermell Charlo, and Austin Trout?

Those are the guys that Smith should have been fighting for the vacant WBO 154lb title earlier this month rather than John Thompson, whose claim to fame was winning the ESPN’s Boxcino tournament earlier this year.

That an ESPN thing against beatable fighters. Thompson didn’t face the real talents like the Charlo brothers, Martirosyan, Julian Williams or Trout. As such, I can’t give Liam Smith any credit for beating Thompson because he didn’t beat the cream of the 154lb division. He just beat a guy that won an ESPN tournament that didn’t have the real talents taking part in it.

“I feel it’s one for 2016 and in Liverpool, topping the bill because I think it’s a fantastic event,” Gallagher said. “It’d be a great name to have on the record. I know Liam Smith wants the fight and it’s about making the fight at the right time. I think the right time would be next year.”



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