Shane Mosley: "I Wasn't Impressed By Mayweather"

Shane Mosley: "I Wasn't Impressed By Mayweather"

By Mark Vester

There has been a lot of talk about the post-fight incident between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley. After Mayweather's win over Juan Manuel Marquez last Saturday in Las Vegas, Mosley entered the ring and had a war of words with Mayweather on the live HBO pay-per-view broadcast.

Speaking with BoxingScene.com's Ernest Gabion and Luis Sandoval, Mosley said that in order to be considered as the best, Mayweather needs to accept his challenge.

"Floyd has a big ego. If he wants to be the best, to be considered the best. You can't just say 'oh, I'm the best,' and then have the crowd and the reporters say 'you're the best.' You have to get in there and prove it. He knows in his heart that he has to come in the ring and fight me to be the best. When he does it is a different story. Maybe he's trying to wait until I'm 40 years old, I don't know," Mosley said.

He doesn't stay quiet about Mayweather's decision to fight a much smaller man in Marquez. He said Mayweather was given two options for his return - Mosley or Marquez. Mayweather made a decision to go with Marquez. Mosley was not impressed with Mayweather's win over a much smaller man.

"Mayweather chose to fight Marquez. There were two options out there. There was Mosley and Marquez. He chose Marquez. [He was asked] 'which one do you want?' [He said] 'I want Marquez.' Why? You tell me," Mosley said.

"I wasn't impressed with the whole fight. I didn't agree with this fight. Marquez is a great fighter. He is a world class fighter. He showed a lot of heart. I just didn't agree with the fight. It's not the right fight. When you have the welterweight champ and the lightweight champ calling you out, and you go on ESPN and say I want to steal some money [by fighting Marquez] and the writers agree with this and let this happen, then yeah I have a problem with that."

 

Shane must have forgot about how he was desperate to fight a former flyweight, and how he gave Marquez his blessing to take the fight.

 

Shane needs to chill. I remember he turned down his first chance to fight Margarito so he could get a couple tune ups in himself.

 

the way i look at it is that if mosley was offered 10 to 15 million to face marquez, what would he have done.


he's right, it wasnt a good matchup, nor a good fight.

 

Though his last paragraph was quite precise.

 

I don't think he would. Shane is far from a good bussiness man/

 

Shane is desperate for a big fight since his divorce.

 

Cant blame the guy. He wants 1 big payday for retirement.

 

Fuck Floyd! Floyd takes the Marquez fight because JMM "Called him out" Mosley is the fucking 147 pound champ and he's calling Floyd out. What does he get? a bunch of shit from Floyd lovers.

 

No, he's the WW Champ looking to fight the best guy out there. Something Mayweather could learn from.

 

Sugar' Shane Mosley told grand jury of EPO use

Boxer "Sugar" Shane Mosley testified in 2003 that he injected himself with the notorious doping agent EPO as he prepared for his light-middleweight title fight against Oscar De La Hoya, according to grand jury transcripts and doping calendars reviewed by the Daily News.

The Mosley transcripts are part of a massive BALCO file that was under a protective order from March of 2004 until last week, when U.S District Court Judge Susan Illston vacated the order at the request of prosecutors who are preparing for the March 2 trial of Barry Bonds on perjury charges.

In the testimony, recorded on Dec. 11, 2003, at the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Mosley also said that BALCO founder Victor Conte explained in detail how the drug was used and what its effects would be, including the potential harmful effects of the highly-regulated endurance booster. Mosley has admitted publicly and under oath that he used steroids and EPO, but has denied knowing that the drugs were banned or illegal.

When asked if he had gotten EPO from Conte, Mosley replied: "Yes, the hematocrit."

"And that's something you actually inject into yourself?" he was asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Nedrow.

"I think it's right by your stomach, yes," Mosley said, indicating where the drug is often injected.

Conte has said he instructed Mosley on techniques for drawing EPO from a bottle with a syringe and injecting it in each side of the belly button in what is known as "double-saturation" injections.

At one point in the questioning, Nedrow produced a calendar seized from the BALCO lab showing Mosley used a potent cocktail of steroids and EPO right up until a few days before his victorious fight with De La Hoya on Sept. 13, 2003. The calendars denote which days Mosley was supposed to take which substances.

Mosley acknowledged that the calendar, marked "S.M.," contained instructions for him, and that the prices scribbled on the margins corresponded with the money he owed Conte for the treatments. (Conte, who estimates Mosley injected himself 20 times on each side of his belly button in the month before the fight, says he drew up the calendar while Mosley watched.)

Nedrow then pointed to the letter "E," which appears on the calendars at regular intervals in July and August.

"E, are those the injections of the EPO?," Nedrow asked Mosley.

"Yes, those would be the days," Mosley answered

 

I don't care about old news. It has nothing to do with Mayweather fighting Mosley. Of course you come along and just try to discredit Shane and change the subject.

 

You're pathetic... It doesn't have anything to do with the subject of this thread... Unless you consider your hero is punishing Shane for cheating in the past.

 

I'm all for the fight, but Mosley had a shot at PBF before and pulled out because of a toothache.

 

If Manny beats Cotto, Pacquiao-Mayweather is the biggest fight in years so how could you fault him for angling towards that fight?

 

No doubt...Mayweather vs. Pacquiao is the biggest fight that can be made....but Mayweather will always be remember for ducking Cotto, Williams, Margarito, Mosley....

and even though i will order May vs. Pacquiao.....IMO Cotto and Mosley have the better chance at beating Mayweather...

May vs. Pacquiao will do 2 mil ppv buys ......

 

And before that Mosley already said he wouldn't fight until the following year. The whole toothache thing happened AFTER Mosley said he wasn't fighting for the remainder of the year.

 

So he has more excuses for not fighting?:bangh:

 

No, the tooth thing was never an excuse. That is what mayweather fans cling to so Floyd doesn't have to finally face Mosley.

It's almost like people don't want Floyd to fight the best guys out there. What the fuck is wrong with some of you?

 

Facts are facts. Floyd is a welterweight who claims to be the best. Mosley is the #1 welterweight in the world.

 

Exactly. Pac vs Floyd is an interesting fight, but it does nothing as far as proving who the best fighter at 147 is. If Floyd wants to run around saying he's the best boxer on earth, he better damn well be willing to prove he's the best in his own weight class first.

 

Shane wants a payday....Floyd would toy with this guy. He got outboxed by Cotto who isn't close to Floyd in the skills dept. I mean this guy thinks Cottos footwork gave him problems? ::

 

Is that what Floyd got for the JMM fight?

No Shane wants to prove he's the best welterweight. He's already said as much in an interview after the fight.

Right now if the Mayweather fight doesn't happen it looks like it'll be Mosley-Berto in January. Mosley said after that he can fight Floyd, then Clottey, then Cotto again, but his goal is to prove he is the best welterweight of this era.

Also what Cotto does has nothing to do with what Floyd does. Floyd lacks Cotto's strength, size, durability, and balls so he stands a much better chance of getting stopped.

 

Cotto showed NO balls against Mosely...and how do you know he has more durability? You assume too much. At the end of the day you can say whatever the hell you want, you know just as well as I do that the blueprint is clear...if you stick a jab in Mosely's face, give him movement and don't let him setup he is reduced to a normal fighter....and no one on the planet does that better than Floyd. The signs are clear in the Forest fights, the 2nd Oscar fight, the Winky fights and the Cotto fight. Mosely only knocks out slow crude guys like Marg, Vargas, and Mayorga...He will NOT knock out Floyd..it just won't happen.

 

more than that apparently. 900-1mill buys!

 

I know he has more durability because he doesn't have rib injuries or shoulder injuries all the time like Floyd does. Plus will Floyd even be able to stick a jab in Mosley's face all night with hurting his hand at some point? Floyd isn't Oscar, Forrest, or Winky all of them being bigger and taller than Shane. Floyd is smaller and has less power than all of them. So yeah, the blueprint is clear on how to beat Mosley, the question is can Floyd do it? Maybe, but I have to see it actually happen before I'm going to say absolutely one way or the other like you're doing. People swore up and down Roy Jones would never get KO'd, same thing with Mike Tyson and even Mosley getting beat up by Forrest was a shocker, so never say never in boxing.

 

I s not going to happen since Cotto is going to give a beating to Pacquiao. Mark my words...

 

What on earth makes you think that PBF would fight a top 147 pounder?

 

I am also one who thinks Cotto will win this fight.

 

He doesn't have too. He's that good. Don't hate.