By Dave Lahr: If this fight was to have taken place 10 years ago with Shane Mlosley (46-5, 39 KO’s) a young 28-year-old and Floyd Mayweather Jr. (40-0, 25 KO’s) the older 33-year-old opponent, I could see Mosley emerging as the winner of the fight. The problem is Shane is now 38, and hasn’t fought in over a year as he comes into their May 1st fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. I don’t particularly care how well Mosley did against the slow Antonio Margarito in his last fight. Mosley isn’t facing Margarito on May 1st, and he’s coming off of a long layoff.
That spells defeat, anyway you want to look at it. Mayweather is the best fighter in the welterweight division, period. I’m sorry, but I think Mayweather will wipe the deck with the small Manny Pacquiao when/if they ever fight. But right now, there’s no one that can touch Mayweather, least of all Mosley. I think things are going to go really badly for Mosley in this fight. He doesn’t have the movement, the hand speed or the jab to compete with Mayweather and I think he’s going to get riddled to pieces in this fight.
It’s going to be one of those sad fights in which the old fighter gets beaten to a pulp and is made to look all of their age. Mosley is still a good fighter and I think he could beat the likes of Pacquiao, and the rest of the welterweight division. But Mayweather is a lot better than Pacquiao and a lot better than Mosley and the rest of the welterweight division. This is going to be a hopeless mismatch for Mosley. I just hope he doesn’t get beaten too badly.
I don’t want the guy to be finished completely as a fighter. I want Mayweather to take it easy on Mosley when it gets really bad late in the fight. In Mayweather’s last fight against another old fighter, the 36-year-old Juan Manuel Marquez, Mayweather dominated Marquez like he was beating a schoolboy. This is kind of how I see this fight going. I think Mosley is going to be in way over his head in this fight and unable to cope with Mayweather’s superior hand speed and defensive ability.
Mosley looked really bad in his fight before his last one against Ricardo Mayorga, getting beaten to the punch through most of the fight until he stopped Mayorga in the 12th round. Although incredibly two of the judges had Mosley in the lead at the time he stopped Mayorga, a lot of other people felt that Mosley was on the verge of losing the fight to Mayorga had he not been able to stop him in the last round. I thought the judges’ scores were ridiculous. I had Mayorga easily winning the fight. Mosley just couldn’t throw enough punches and he really undermined his own case in the fight by constantly clinching after throwing shots. That kind of thing doesn’t work when you’re fighting someone that is throwing a lot of punches like Mayorga was.
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