By Allen Hmiel: Reputations take a life time to build but only a second to destroy and Shane Mosley seemed to let everything flush away with his lack luster effort against Mayweather. Mosley gave up just to last the twelve rounds and escape still standing up and considering it a moral victory for himself.

My how Mosley the once proud warrior of the ring has fallen from an undefeated champion and P4P best to now becoming a willing opponent to accept a nice payday in return for making another fighter look great. Pride seems to flush away when fighters like Mosley once great are faced with adversity, diminishing physical skills, money issues, divorce and sometimes the unbeatable opponent old age and father time. Now we see Mosley once again willing to face possibly the best fighter of this generation Manny Pacquiao in a definite mismatch based on Mosley’s quit against Floyd and his lackluster performance against Mora. Does this equate to a fighter like Shane in need of a definite payday willing to accept another loss just to help grease his monetary sled into retirement and bachelorhood?

Where does an ex-champions pride go when the finances dip, the skills erode and the big 40 approaches. When the echoing cheers turn to resounding boos? At what extreme does a old champ say the heck with my legacy, I need money and I am willing to take another significant loss in exchange for another large but undeserving pay-stub? Does Mosley deserve the Pacquiao fight? Absolutely not, but it is another faded name for Paq to hang on his questionable reputation seemingly built on well chosen hand picked opponents vulnerable and open to the Pacquiao style. Mosley seems willing to give it another go even after humiliating himself against Mayweather and sliding by an average Mora. Mosley isn’t selling his soul to the devil rather than accepting a seven figure payday from an obliging Bob Arum who keeps his cash cow Manny winning again and a game obedient Mosley willing to once again tarnish his reputation in lieu of a multimillion dollar retirement sled into average-ness. Mosley once again swallows his pride at the expense of collecting an undeserved pay-date not with destiny but with father time.