Agreed. Which probably means, at 135... Duran and Whitaker are the only two CLEAR favorites over Mosley.
Stylewise Mayweather beats any version of Mosley every day of the week. I'd pick Lightweight De La Hoya over Mosley too. To answer the thread, Chavez wins.
We've been down that road before, and you know my answer.... Shane beats Floyd at 135 IMO. Oscar definitely doesn't beat Shane at lightweight. Lightweight Oscar was still a bit green. The best version of Oscar was the 140 version. Oscar was a bad ass at 140, much as I hate him.
I would take Mayweather over Mosley at 135 but at 147 I'd take a prime Mosley to beat Floyd. I think Mosley could beat Chavez, but JCC has tools Mosley never saw at 135. I think that one is a toss up.
Mosley just plain and simply isn't good enough to beat Floyd at any weight bar a lucky punch (which isn't outside the realm of possibility).
See, this is when Floyd becomes overrated. Mosley is damn sure good enough to beat Floyd at lightweight, considering Castillo arguably did it. A shot Shane, who could only throw 1 punch at a time, badly hurt Floyd with the two flushes shots he did land. Yet you don't think a young Mosley, who could fire off combinations with speed Floyd has never dealt with, can't do any better? I think Shane's speed, strength, and most importantly, BODY ATTACK, would be Floyd's undoing at 135.
Shane was always a spurt fighter, never had the best defence and was never a good boxer. He overwhelmed opponents, he couldn't deal with master boxers. Shane always had that lazy flick jab and Floyd would have always pull countered him to death
By the way xplosive that so called shot Shane was good enough to wipe out margarito, something pacquiao Cotto and cintron couldn't do. The margarito fight was his previous fight. Secondly, Shane only hurt Floyd with the second right hand...the first right hand was just a "wooooo" punch, in that it got the crowd excited. Floyd had recovered from it within seconds and had Shane on the defensive before the round ended
I would pick Shane. But I agree with Slice, Floyd beats Mosley at any weight - he's just too skilled and clever for Mosley. I say this as a big Mosley fan - prime Shane was one of my favourite fighters.
Shane body attack my big black ass. Shane had a great body attack against guys that just stood there and took it. Floyd's movement and ring generalship will limit that body attack.
Well partly, aye, it's not like Floyd beat him because he was way quicker against an old man or something, he just completely outsmarted the dude from the third round onwards. Mosley looked clueless, just as he had plenty of times before. I would honestly have picked Floyd to win this match up even if they'd never actually met during their careers.
Ah come on, you can't come closer than anybody to knocking Floyd down one minute to being unable to pull the trigger the next. Floyd just adjusted and Mosley didn't know what to do.
Mosley would be much bigger than Chavez, assuming this is not the Holiday version who only gained one pound after the weigh-in
