By William Mackay: Through a long 16 year professional boxing career, Shane Mosley has been fortunate enough not to have been knocked out. He’ll be incredibly lucky if that streak can somehow continue on Saturday night against WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito. The problem for Mosley is that he plans on going toe to toe with Margarito, a fighter with the ability to throw well over 100 puncher per round for an entire fight.
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Weigh-In: Mosley 147.2 Margarito 145.8
By Eric Thomas: WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito weighed in at 145.8 for today’s weigh-in while challenger Shane Mosley came in at 147.2 and had to come back later to be reweighed after shedding the extra weight. In the second try, he came right in at 147. Mosley, 37, is facing a difficult task in taking on Margarito on Saturday night at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California.
Margarito-Mosley: Shane Takes a Big Risk On Saturday
By Manuel Perez: Shane Mosley better find the fountain of youth by this Saturday night or else he’s going to end taking a beating from Antonio Margarito. Up until his last fight against Ricardo Mayorga, Mosley has been fortunate not to take a lot of punishment during his long 16-year pro career, but that may change against the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight champion Margarito, who specializes in dishing out punishment against his opponents, overwhelming them with his high punch output.
Cunningham-Maccarinelli, Gomez-Klitschko, Margarito-Mosley – News
HBO Sports rings in the new year with a red-hot welterweight championship showdown between two world-class performers on WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: ANTONIO MARGARITO VS. SHANE MOSLEY, presented live SATURDAY, JAN. 24 (10:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. PT) from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, exclusively on HBO. The WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING team will be ringside for the event, which will be presented in HDTV and in Spanish on HBO Latino.
Mosley vs. Margarito: Look For Shane To Be Sent Into Retirement
By William Mackay: Though Shane Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) has recently said that he’d like to fight another four to five years, I think his time is about to come up on Saturday when he faces WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-5, 27 KOs) at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. A beating at the hands of Margarito has a way of convincing a fighter about what he has left in the tank.
Mosley Better Be Ready To Run From Margarito All Night Long
By Manuel Perez: Shane Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) has been saying that he doesn’t plan on running from WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-5, 27 KOs) in their title bout on January 24th at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. For Mosley’s sake, I hope he’s joshing about this, because Shane is going to take a real pounding if he’s serious about this. Having confidence in oneself is nice thing to have but there’s also reality, and the reality is, if Mosley stands and tries to fight it out with Margarito, Shane is going to be the equivalent of bicyclist being run over by a speeding truck.
Margarito-Mosley: Is Shane Ready For A War?
By Dave Lahr: With age quickly creeping in on him, the 37-year-old Shane Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) will be taking on his best opponent in years, perhaps in his entire career when he faces World Boxing Association welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-5, 27 KOs) on January 24th at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Coming off one of the worst performances in his career in his last fight, a 12th round TKO victory over Ricardo Mayorga in September, Mosley’s chosen a terrible time to fight someone as good as Margarito.
Mayweather vs. The Welterweight Division
By Daniel Poland: Everybody in boxing is now talking about the possible ring return of Floyd Mayweather Jr., who hasn’t fought since his 10th round knockout of Ricky Hatton in December 2007. It has taken a year without Mayweather for the rumors to start, and I personally believe the sport of boxing needs Mayweather at this point. The talk is Mayweather is lining up a mega fight with the current Pound for Pound king Manny Pacquiao. That is if Pacquiao can get past his next opponent Ricky Hatton in May, which a lot of boxing experts are predicting he should do.
Margarito vs. Mosley Preview
By Matt Stein: Rather than taking it easy in his old age, former boxing great Shane Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) had decided to go out on his shield by taking on WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (37-5, 27 KOs) on January 24th at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. Of the last three fighters that have stepped in the ring with Margarito, in each case they’ve been stopped inside the distance and suffered a beating along the way.
Pacquiao Wants a Bout With Either Margarito Or Mayweather
By Eric Thomas: In an article from Ron Borges at Thesweetscience site, Freddie Roach, the trainer for WBC lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao (48-3-2, 36 KOs), said that Manny wants a bout with Margarito, whom he thinks he can outbox. Roach further said that Pacquiao won’t ever be defending his WBC lightweight title and that if Juan Manuel Marquez wants a fight with Manny, he’s going to need to gain some weight and move up to the light welterweight division (140 lbs) and meet Manny there because that’s the weight class that Pacquiao will be moving to next.