Shane Mosley wants Cotto or Saul Alvarez in 2012

By Boxing News - 12/13/2011 - Comments

Image: Shane Mosley wants Cotto or Saul Alvarez in 2012By Dan Ambrose: Seeing WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto struggle to beat Antonio Margarito last week, 40-year-old Shane Mosley (46-7-1, 39 KO’s) is energized to finally get back in the ring after sitting around since losing a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision to World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao last May. According to fighthype.com, Mosley wants to take on Cotto in a rematch and/or face WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez.

Mosley said to fighthype.com “I’m looking to clean people’s clocks out and there’s going to be a shake ups in 2012. I ain’t playing…[I want to fight] somebody like Canelo, Cotto.”

I wonder if Mosley means that in the literal sense, him cleaning people’s clocks? I’m sorry but I can’t see 40-year-old Mosley beating anyone that’s any good. I don’t know, maybe he could give Cotto some problems, because Cotto is a really limited fighter that is being spoon fed by his promoter Bob Arum lately. Cotto is a knockout waiting to happen as soon as he’s matched against someone half way decent for a change.

But Mosley’s problem is neither Cotto or Alvarez are going to bother fighting him because he’s three out of his last five bouts and looked terrible in his last three. You can really say Mosley has lost his last three bouts because his 12 round draw with Sergio Mora in September 2010 seemed like a mercy draw to me. That looked like a fight that was clearly won by Mora.

So the problem Mosley has is he’s not fighting well enough for the likes of Cotto and Alvarez to fight him. Cotto has been taking on weak fighters, but they’re at least winning at the time that he’s facing him. I take that back. Margarito hadn’t won a fight in over a year when Cotto fought him recently. Still, I just don’t see Arum willing to match Cotto with Mosley right now. Cotto wants a big payday, and I don’t think Mosley is the name to provide him with his big money bout. ‘

I think Mosley might get lucky though with someone like Amir Khan if he moves up in weight next year. He’s going to be looking for an old toothless lion like Mosley so that he can get a win over a fighter with a name, but not someone who still has enough left to knock him cold. I can see that fight happening and Mosley will get a good little payday out of the fight. I might even get lucky and get a 30-70 deal with Khan.



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