How is shane mosley

Mosley lost a one-sided unanimous decision, resulting in Alvarez remaining undefeated at Mosley explained his line of thinking at the time of the bet, saying: "I was thinking this snot nose kid is not gonna beat me, you know at [pounds]. Even then, Mosley seemed like a long shot to win, as Alvarez was one of the fastest-rising stars in the sport. He had beaten Matthew Hatton to win the vacant WBC light middleweight title four fights prior and was on a three-fight knockout streak entering the clash with Mosley.

However, Mosley put up a solid argument as to why the former WBC heavyweight titleholder might be able to add strings to his bow. Augustus had a lot of losses, but most of those losses came around because he was learning on the job. He beat him the first time and they called it a draw, then he beat him up in the rematch.

One of the reasons that Mosley is giving Wilder a serious chance of victory is because he believes the change in his training team was strategic. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.

Friday, November 12, I think I was a stronger and bigger lightweight than a lot of these guys. He moved directly to pounds and would even accept challenges at Being inducted into the Hall of Fame verifies my greatness and proves that I became the fighter that I wanted to be. The affable three-weight world champion and former pound-for-pound No. I knew he was very tough, and I had to be ready to fight the whole 12 rounds. He was the type of fighter who would throw a lot of punches, so I had to give him some movement and use my boxing skills a little more.

I had done a lot of sparring with Padilla, who threw lots of punches too, and he was even stronger, being a pounder. A peak version of Mosley opens up on Demetrio Ceballos. I had fought a guy right before this, Manuel Gomez, and knocked him out in the 11th round.

Ceballos had stopped him earlier six rounds , but Gomez had plenty of time to train for me and less time to train for Ceballos.

I had the mentality where I was working in the gym with world champions every day and they were coming after me and I was going after them. He tried as hard as he could to beat me and carry out his game plan, but I knew for a fact that there was no way he could beat me. He took a lot of punishment because he tried to walk through all my punches, believing that he was bigger than me. His corner convinced him that he was a bigger fighter, but I ended my amateur career at , so I was a big pounder then.

Ceballos and his corner believed they were bigger than me and that was totally not the case. I give him a lot of credit. I wanted to get right into it. Mosley and Oscar De La Hoya let it all hang out during the final round. Photo by Al Bello-Getty Images. But if you look back, Oscar was fighting at in the Olympics and I was