More importantly, can he, if he did face top fighters, beat those types of fighters as he moves into the late stages of his career? The answer has to be without question, no. Every division but the heavyweight division has too many good fighters for Mosley to keep on fighting top talent after the next couple of years, if not sooner.
So this fight with Mayweather might leave us with a lasting impression of Mosley. Win or lose, this fight could be the fight Mosley becomes best known for. Mosley has faced nearly every big-name fighter of this era. While Mosley has not beaten all of them, he has never in his professional career been knocked out. This fight will be the second fight in a row that Mosley will enter as an underdog. In his last fight against Antonio Margarito, Mosley was a underdog.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mayweather, like him or not, has yet to taste defeat and his legacy will be his unbeaten record. Just like Mosley, Mayweather has stepped into the ring against most of the good fighters of his era as well. Floyd Jr. Other boxers have singled out the same things about Mayweather.
There was nothing I could do. You have to break Mayweather out of his comfort zone. You have to change up, you can't have the same pattern. Mayweather gets his opponents into a pattern where they continue to do the same thing because they feel safe in that pattern, whatever it is. Most of the time, Floyd's opponents are just attacking, and they get hit with shots.
They feel safe in that pattern, and he just outpoints them. So the thing is, you have to box him a little bit, you've got to punch him a little bit to dismantle Mayweather.
People fell into a pattern of chasing him around, and all they did was attack, attack, attack. I don't know if his physical strength is underrated, it's more that when you attack Floyd, he knows how to make your aggression work against you. Even though you're stronger than him physically -- and I was stronger than him -- it doesn't mean anything because he doesn't give you that opportunity because he runs you into the shot. I have a great chin, but his power was a little stronger than I suspected.
It's not so much his strength, it's really his speed and how he runs you into it and how he places his shots. His power wasn't as hard when I was moving around a bit, then when I tried to come at him, I felt it. In terms of dealing with the shoulder roll, it's not as tough if you have fast legs and you have youth, and you have speed and you're able to touch him. It's not that tough, but it is tough. Miguel Cotto was able to hit him, Oscar was able to hit him, there's a lot of people that were able to touch him.
Landing combinations on Mayweather is the toughest thing, because once you land one shot, he's out the way. You land one shot, he almost drops his head to the ground to duck out of the shot. Like Pacquiao fought him, he hit him once, but it was hard for Pacquiao to land a lot of shots, and that's what he does, he throws punches in bunches, and it was hard for Pacquiao to throw punches in bunches against Mayweather.
You have to be in great shape, you have to be percent on top of your game. You can't be in there at 70, 80 percent, you have to be in there , percent because the way he works out, the way he trains, the way he approaches a fight -- he's terrified to lose. After the fight, Floyd gave me my just due, and he talked about how that shot in the second hurt him.
It was the hardest he's ever been hit. He did give me my just due with that. I was always close with his family, it wasn't like we had bad blood. The bad blood was more, like, for promotional reasons because Floyd knows how to promote fights, act crazy, and throw money around. You know what Floyd does, all that stuff. I understood that. So as far as promoting fights is concerned, he's good at promoting fights.
It's kind of like Muhammad Ali, he knew what he was doing. Floyd was faster and had more mobility, more speed than me. I only had power over him at that point in time. I had beaten Margarito 14 months before.
Margarito wasn't as fast. I was able to slip and potshot him and do different things. At that time, Mayweather's reflexes were better than mine, it was better and faster because he had the youth and all that stuff. I mean, for me just to buzz him, it kind of defines the fight with me and him. Castillo, I believe, probably had a better fight with him. Oscar De La Hoya had a better fight with him than I did.
But that right hand that I hit him with, it's like no one had ever done that to him and they wouldn't get close to him. Skip to main content Skip to navigation.
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Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. That number would be Mosley, looking all of 38 years and even older as the fight dragged on, fell to But there was another question: Could he sustain the effort?
The answer of the night was no.
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