Was the Mayweather-Mosley altercation staged?

By Boxing News - 03/02/2010 - Comments

Image: Was the Mayweather-Mosley altercation staged?By Chris Williams: In today’s press conference at the Nokia Theater in Manhattan, New York, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley were briefly involved with a brief shoving match after the two of them met at the center of the stage to stare each other down and exchange trash talk. Mayweather gave Mosley a shove that looked as staged as I’d ever seen. Mosley didn’t look the least surprised by the shove and immediately came after Mayweather and grabbed both of his hands and seemed to be in control after that.

However, it looked really fake and contrived the whole thing. If this was something planned, which I think it was, Mayweather and Mosley need to do a little better acting job to make the boxing fans believe that they really have some animosity brewing between them because as it is, the whole scuffle looked badly acted out. It reminded me of some of the bad acting I see when I watch the professional wrestling shows with their fake theatrics before they start to wrestle.

What was funny in today’s press conference was when Mayweather’s advertiser Leonard Ellerbe fell to the floor during the scuffle between Mayweather and Mosley. And Mosley, being a good guy, came out of angry character all of a sudden and tried helping Ellerbe off the floor. It was comical. As for the rest of the press conference, it was much more tame.

Mosley said “It’s been a long time since I got a chance to show the world that I’m the best fighter, and that’s all that I really want, to be the best. I’m going to take my hat off to Mayweather, because I didn’t think I was ever going to get a fight from any of these top fighters. He said, ‘Yeah man, I’ll take that challenge. I’ll fight you.”

Mayweather said “I can’t say how many fights Shane has won in the past because we know Shane was using enhancement drugs. That’s something we do know. It’s no different than Pacquiao. I offered Pacquiao the fight. I said, ‘We’ll give you $25 million.’ I never met a man who wouldn’t take a $25 million drug test.”
Mayweather has been using that quote about Pacquiao an awful lately, and I’m not surprised that he’s still using it now. Hopefully, he comes up with some new material about him. This is getting old.



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