By Dan Ambrose: Shane Mosley faces WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao this Saturday night on May 7th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mosley says he plans on pressuring Pacquiao even more than Antonio Margarito did in their recent fight. Pacquiao easily handed Margarito but ended up getting hit a lot by the Mexican fighter while winning. Mosley figures to try and wear Pacquiao down and make him fold. It’s going to be tough, because Mosley has shown conditioning problems in his last two fights.
For him to get the better of Pacquiao with pressure, Mosley will have to be able to fight hard for more than two rounds without gassing. In the Mora and Mayweather fights, Mosley looked spent after the 2nd round and just looked sloppy. In the Mayweather fight, Mosley was as frozen as a statue after tiring and did almost zero in the past three-quarters of the fight.
39-year-old Mosley says he feels good and thinks he’s got at least three more years left in him before he could be finally hanging up the boxing gloves for good. In taking a quick look at how truly dreadful Mosley looked in his last two fights against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Sergio Mora, it seems that Mosley is in denial. Unless Mosley can start fighting better than he did in those fights, he’ll be lucky if he can fight one more year. Of course, he can keep fighting for three years but it might be kind of pitiful if he’s losing every time out. Mosley has to turn things around if he wants to keep fighting. A loss to Pacquiao will be Mosley’s 2nd loss in his past three fights and a lot of people think Mosley should have lost his last bout against Mora. That would make three straight losses for Mosley. That’s not the kind of results that you would expect from someone that has three years left in him.
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