By Jim Dower: Three years ago, Shane Mosley lost a controversial 12 round unanimous decision to then unbeaten Miguel Cotto in November 2007. Many boxing fans felt that Mosley did more than enough to get the win, especially with the way he appeared to take over the fight in the last four rounds of the fight. Cotto, who still hadn’t been beaten by Antonio Margarito, fought remarkably well for much of the fight. However, by the 8th round, Cotto looked gassed out and was on the run from Mosley, playing keep away during rounds 9 through 12.

It was the same way that Cotto would run from Margarito during most of his fight with him. In this case, Mosley was unable to catch up to Cotto and finish him off with uppercuts the way that Margarito would do a year later in July 2008. Cotto hasn’t looked like the same fighter since losing to Margarito, and has struggled in a questionable 12 round decision win over Joshua Clottey in June 2009, and was then stopped in the 12th round by Manny Pacquiao in November 2009.

Mosley, 38, came back after a 12th round TKO win over Ricardo Mayorga in September 2009 to stop Cotto conqueror Margarito in the 9th round in January 2009. Mosley is now set to fight unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 1st at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Given how Cotto and Mosley both look in their last three fights, who do you think would win if they were to fight at this point in time. I can’t help thinking that Mosley would be too much for Cotto at this point in his career and could end up taking the Puerto Rican fighter out with his aggressiveness and constant pressure. Margarito and Pacquiao may have made the blue print in how to beat Cotto.

Cotto seemed to crumble with the high pace that both Margarito and Pacquiao set out for him in their fights, and Mosley, a very young 38, is capable of fighting at a high pace as well without wearing down and losing steam as the rounds progress.