By Dan Amrbose: Former three division champion Shane Mosley (46-6, 39 KO’s) will be looking to rebound from a recent lopsided 12 round unanimous decision defeat to Floyd Mayweather Jr. next month when he faces former World Boxing Council (WBC) junior middleweight champion Sergio Mora (22-1-1, 6 KO’s) on September 18th, at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California. You have to wonder what the 38-year-old Mosley was thinking when he decided to fight Mora, a junior middleweight with a three inch height advantage over Mosley.

By the time Mosley enters the ring with Mora, Shane will be 39-years-old and well past his best years. In his loss to Mayweather on May 1st, Mosley looked completely spent after only the 2nd round, and spent the better part of the remainder of the fight just taking shots and looking old and tired. Mosley has always done well against fighters that stood right in front of him or those that came right at him. But Mora isn’t one of those types of fighters. He moves a lot, jabs, pot shots and makes his opponents look bad.

That’s what Mora is good at doing, which is why it seems bizarre that of all the fighters that Mosley could have chosen for his comeback fight, he decided on fighting the bigger, younger, more elusive Mora. I think it’s a recipe for failure, and I have to wonder whether Mosley will finally decide to hang up the gloves and retire after this one is over. Although I think Mosley is probably still good enough to compete with a welterweight like WBC champion Andre Berto, but I don’t think he’s good enough to beat him. But I don’t think Mosley has any business fighting any of the top junior middleweights like Mora, and I don’t even see Mora as being the real cream of the crop in the junior middleweight division anymore.

I think Alfredo Angulo, Sergei Dzinziruk and Miguel Cotto are probably the best in the junior middleweight division now that Sergio Martinez has moved up in weight. I can’t see Mosley beating any of them, but it looks like he’s looking to go after one of the belts in that weak division. You can’t blame him if he does, because the junior middleweight division is pathetically weak right now and even an old war horse like the soon to be 39-year-old Mosley might have a decent chance of extending his career by a couple of years if he were able to grab a hold of one of the titles and then defend it for awhile against the likes of Joachim Alcine, Pawel Wolak and Derek Ennis.

I see Mosley losing to Mora and getting dominated by him. I don’t understand the logic of picking a mover like Mora as an opponent following a one-sided loss like the one that Mosley suffered at the hands of Mayweather. This fight could end up looking a lot like Mosley’s loss to Mayweather. Mora is fast, deadly with his pot shots and has an excellent jab. And most of all, he’s really hard to hit.