Another upcoming fight for Manny, this time against Sugar Shane Mosley. Former undefeated champion who also defeated Dela Hoya twice during their prime. But hey I'm not saying mosley is totally past his prime. His win against Margarito way back was impressive but it's still a big question if you ask me cause remember the plaster issue with margarito before his fight against mosley.... We see a demoralized Margarito coming into his fight against mosley.
As for Mosley against Mayweather back then, well I had my money on Mosley back then but I was surprised with the results. Well sorry I don't find Mayweather's performance impressive,instead I see a mosley who gave the fight cause seeing the first few 2 rounds it was clear mosley had the edge not just in terms of skills but strength as well, and yeah if he gave it his all Mayweather would have been KO'd. To lessen the details...reason behind it? Maybe they want Pac vs Manny to push through haha or they still want mayweather to remain undefeated. Anyway let's go to the real topic...
2 POV on my part:
Why I think this fight is cool....
Mosley KOing Margarito (after Margarito's impressive win against cotto). For an aging fighter like mosley beating a fighter in his prime, what could be more impressive. As for Mosley's last fight (against Sergio Mora), it is an unimpressive performance but it's still a possibility that he did not prepared well for that fight cause he thinks it's nonsense so there's a chance he trained harder for this upcoming fight against pacman.
Do I need to say more about Manny? Well he is still the current #1 pound for pound boxer in the world so that sez it all. Not being able to KO margarito...maybe it's something political like the longer the fight the more fans will enjoy it and/or a show of mercy towards maragarito hehe.
Why I think it's not that cool....
Sergio Mora's records are so unimpressive that if he faces pacman it's 100% obvious that pacquiao will KO him. But look at how mosley fought against mora...SUX!
Pacquiao is known as a KO artist but for me a Unanimous Decision win against a fighter we know he can KO is really unimpressive and makes me want to think if he is really losing his touch (KOing boxers).
Interesting Facts:
Cotto defeated Mosley via Uninanimous Decision, Margarito KO'd Cotto, Mosley KO'd Margarito, Pacquiao KO'd Cotto, Pacquiao defeated Margarito via Unanimous Decision.
All in all I'm still interested to see this fight. I'll just think of it as Mosley training harder for this one compare to his past fights and same thing with pacquiao. If this will be an all out fight with no political issues like longer rounds it will definitely be interesting.
Chances for an upset is still a possibility, it's true that age and boxing records like having more KO's can be a big factor but I've seen upsets before like Juan Manuel Lopez (Juanma) vs Orlando Salido, juanma entered the match with 30wins and 27 by KOs with no loss, while Salido has 35 wins and 23 by KOs but has 11 losses and 5 of those by KO. Juanma is still in his prime and is a much younger fighter but he lost that fight via 8 round TKO (altough it was an unecessary early stop by the ref but it was a bit clear that salido already has an 80% chance of winning that time). Another upset would be Nonito Donaire KOing Vic Darchinyan. Anyway back to pacquiao vs mosley....
Though I still think manny will have a bigger edge in this fight, it will not be an easy one for him cause Mosley is not someone who will backdown easily. (well if he does then shame on him).
