By Dan Ambrose: 41-year-old Shane Mosley (46-8-1, 39 KO’s) is looking forward to facing WBA World welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (32-4, 7 KO’s) for his world title in 2013. Malignaggi has already said that he wants to fight Mosley if the two of them can agree on the money for the fight.
Mosley isn’t in the best position to shape the negotiations due to him losing three out of his last four fights over a two year period. Mosley hasn’t won since 2009 when he beat Antonio Margarito.
It looks like the World Boxing Association will likely bless the Malignaggi-Mosley fight as being a title fight despite Mosley no longer being ranked. That’s a good thing for Mosley because if he can beat Malignaggi, he could get a good money against one of the top welterweights. I don’t Mosley will be getting any of the big names like Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. to agree to fight him no what title Mosley wins.
Those guys are easily beat him, and they’re not going to want to fight him again. Mosley has been incredibly lucky in the past two years with him getting fights against Mayweather. Pacquiao and Canelo. The only guy that’s really missing for Mosley during that time frame is Miguel Cotto, but Mosley already had a chance to fight him in 2007, but he lost that fight.
Mosley said to esnewsreporting.com “Knowing I can make welterweight and fight someone like Paulie [Malignaggi], I think it’s a good fight for me to come back, and then after I win the fight then there will be a lot of other fighters coming to get me. I will be better at 147. My size, my weight, my power; I can hang in there with someone like Canelo, who is real big and strong, fast and young.”
As shot as Mosley is, I think he has a good chance of beating Malignaggi, but that’s only because Malignaggi is weak puncher and he’s pretty good for just jabbing at this point in his career. If Mosley can’t beat Malignaggi, I’d be very surprised because Malignaggi is pretty average.
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