By Jason Kim: There’s little doubt that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is going to be trying to avoid any heated battles with WBA welterweight Shane Mosley as much as possible this Saturday night in their round bout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather, 33, takes pride in not taking punishment in fights. Some people say that Mayweather purposely picks only opponents that he thinks he can beat to avoid taking punishment.
Well, Mayweather might have finally found an opponent in 38-year-old Mosley that he can’t avoid escaping punishment, because Mosley isn’t a fighter that can be beaten on the cheap. He’s going to be going after Mayweather all night long trying to take his head off with every punch. In the past, Mayweather has done well against fighters that go after. In fact, he seems to relish in being able to pick apart opponents that crowd him the way that Mosley will likely be doing on Saturday night. But then again, Mayweather hasn’t ever faced a fighter with Mosley’s offensive skills.
It remains to be seen whether Mayweather will be able to land his pinpoint punches against Mosley the same way he’s done against his last two opponents Ricky Hatton and Juan Manuel Marquez. One problem preventing Mayweather from dominating Mosley the way that he did Hatton and Marquez is that Mosley is bigger and faster than those two fighters. Mosley is even better than Mayweather by an inch and is excellent at adapting to changing situations during a fight. Most of Mayweather’s opponents have only had a plan ‘A’ and didn’t have a backup plan to fall back on when Mayweather started to give them problems.
Mosley can do a lot of different things that other fighters can’t. Mosley’s hand speed will allow him to compete with Mayweather in close. And if he does have problems with Mayweather being a faster fighter, Mosley can always crowd Mayweather and shut him down with wrestling on the inside. Unlike Hatton, Mosley is deadly with short punches on the inside and can throw them incredibly fast.
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