By Jason Kim: WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (39-0-1, 29 KO’s) has about every advantage you could think of going into his May 5th fight against 40-year-old way his best “Sugar” Shane Mosley (46-7-1, 39 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is a fight that is huge mismatch on paper, because Mosley hasn’t won a fight in three years and his poor performances show why.
He’s lost his timing, his stamina, and ability to pull the trigger on his shot. With everything that the hard hitting Alvarez has going for him in this fight there’s a very good change that we may see Mosley get stopped for the first time in his career. You give Mosley a lot of credit for what he did in the past, but he’s really up against it here against the powerful Alvarez.
I can see a situation where Mosley will get knocked out unless he plays the safety first manner in which he fought last year against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao last May. Mosley moved around a lot and clinched whenever he could in order to make it the full 12 rounds. After the fight, he had excuses about having hurt his Achilles tendon. It sounds like a good excuse, right? Well then what happened in his two fights previous to the Pacquiao bout against Sergio Mora and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Was Mosley hurt there as well? Mosley hasn’t looked good since the Antonio Margarito fight in January 2009. That might as well have been 100 years ago because it doesn’t help Mosley now. He looked good way back, but he’s looked shot to pieces ever since then.
I hate to think that Mosley will run from the 21-year-old Alvarez just to survive for 12 rounds, because it’s not the way you’d like to see him going out. It would be better for him at least to try and battle Alvarez, but I don’t think he will. If Mosley tries to fight him for 12 rounds, Alvarez will KO him. If Mosley runs for 12 rounds, he’ll stink up the joint and still lose but by a 12 round decision instead of a KO.
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