By Chris Williams: It seems that 40-year-old Shane Mosley (46-7-1, 39 KO’s) doesn’t like that idea that he’s being seen as a washed up fighter that’s only being brought into fight WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s) on May 5th in order to add a big name to the young 21-year-old Alvarez’s resume.
Mosley doesn’t see himself as shot and thinks he’ll knock Alvarez out, even though Mosley hasn’t won a fight in over three years and has lost two out of his last three fights. But he still says he’s not ever the hill. That’s quite common for fighters to be the last one to know they’re completely shot unfortunately. If Mosley wasn’t shot, then why else would he have been selected to face WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao last year? That was kind of the proof right there that Mosley doesn’t have it anymore, because if he did, Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum likely wouldn’t have let Mosley anywhere near his cash cow Pacquiao.
If Mosley wasn’t shot, he’d like have been forced to drain down to some ridiculously low catchweight of something along the lines of 142 to fight Pacquiao, and thus be too weak to fight. But the catchweight wasn’t needed because Mosley had been scouted out well ahead of time and deemed a safe fight for Pacquiao to take.
Mosley told RingTV “I’m not over the hill. I’m not done. I’m not what they think. I think that they’ll find out. In fact, I’m sure that they’ll find that out when we’re in the ring the night that the fight happens. I think that I have the punching power to knock him out.”
I hate to say this but Mosley sounds completely delusional about what he’s got left at this point. I don’t know how he can give himself a shot at winning this fight, because he hasn’t won a fight since January 2009, and by the time he enters the ring on May 5th, he will have been out of the ring a year. The combination of age and rust will be too much for Mosley in this fight.
It was a good move by Golden Boy Promotions to select Mosley to face Alvarez on May 5th, because it gives the Mexican fighter a popular guy to look good against on the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo.
Mosley will look good just enough to make the fight mildly entertaining but that’s about it. Mosley won’t get knocked out but he’ll take a minor beating and will be forced to run in order to keep from getting knocked out. I expect Mosley to do a lot of the touching of gloves before each round starts to make it appear like a sparring session.
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