By Sean Jones: Shane Mosley feels that Saul Canelo Alvarez is a clean fighter, and that his positive tests for his canceled rematch with Gennady Golovkin last May could have been a result of him eating bad meat or his trainer putting something in his food to give him an edge. Mosley doesn’t think Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) intentionally took anything to get an edge against Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs).
By Sean Jones: Former multi-division world champion ‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley is leaning towards IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady ‘GGG’ Golovkin beating Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in rematch on the 5th of May.
By Jeff Aranow: In a long overdue decision, 45-year-old former 3 division world champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley has announced his retirement after 24 years as a pro. Mosley is about to turn 46 next month, and he’s been dealing a number of injuries that has slowed his great career.
By Dan Ambrose: Former multi-division world champion “Sugar” Shane Mosley rates Saul “Canelo” Alvarez as having better boxing skills than IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, and he thinks he could come out on top in their September 16 fight IF he can handle the pressure and power from the Kazakhstan fighter.
By Joseph Hirsch – There’s something painful about watching a boxer fight long past their prime, but it’s also many times inevitable. Money doesn’t grow on trees and fighters fight until they can’t anymore. Sometimes they go out on their shield figuratively, and sometimes, like Bernard Hopkins, they literally go out on their head.
Seeing a great fighter get worked over by someone he would have beat in his prime recalls Rose Louis’s comments about watching her husband Joe wrestling. “It was like seeing President Eisenhower washing dishes.”
In his memoir, The Bronze Bomber notes that he didn’t see anything wrong with wrestling, but he also added that “when you’re broke, who can see straight?”
The most painful of all these last-ditch efforts by former greats must be Muhammad Ali’s match (if it can even be called that) against Jamaica’s Trevor Berbick.
