Will Mayweather want a rematch with Mosley if he gets brutally knocked out?

By Dave Lahr: Okay, so Floyd Mayweather Jr. is taking on WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley on May 1st. We already know that Mayweather hasn’t been exactly the busiest of fighters in the past three yrears. The guy has only fought one time against Juan Manuel Marquez, who was smaller, slower and coming up in weight for the fight. Beyond that, Mayweather has been taking on other smaller fighters like Ricky Hatton and Zab Judah, and beating them on size alone.

Mayweather hasn’t had to worry about fighting a guy bigger than him and with better offensive skills like Mosley. Okay, so a lot of bad things can happen in this fight and I think things might go badly for Mayweather. So what will Mayweather do if he gets brutally knocked out by Mosley? We’re talking one of those knockouts where Mayweather would have to be taken out on a stretcher and carted to a nearby hospital.

Would Mayweather want a rematch with Mosley or would he figure it’s better off to leave it alone and go after Manny Pacquiao finally without all the random blood tests involved. Would Mayweather’s ego be able to take being knocked out? That would probably be a huge blow for him to get stretched by Mosley, because his invincibility would be shattered with one swing by Mosley. You never know how Mayweather would react to something like getting royally creamed by Mosley.

Part of me thinks that Mayweather’s sense of revenge would kick in and drive him for a rematch, but I’m not so sure. I think the fear of getting beaten up again might cause Mayweather to back off and go in another direction. It’s one thing getting knocked out once by a fighter, but a whole different matter to get brutally KO’ed a second time.

Mayweather couldn’t make excuses if he got knocked out twice in a row. That’s why I think Mayweather would figure he’d better off leaving Mosley alone and just going after Pacquiao. There wouldn’t be anything to lose at that point if Mayweather fought Pacquiao. If he lost then, it would be big deal. He already got destroyed by Mosley, so there’s no point in crying about it. But I think a knockout loss to Mosley would be a real killer for Mayweather’s ego and I think he’d have a hard time dealing with it. I could just see Mayweather looking crushed for days after a loss to Mosley. I think Mayweather might even retire rather than risk getting beaten up and knocked out again.