Manny Pacquiao dominates Shane Mosley

Manny Pacquiao dominated an overmatched Shane Mosley to retain his World Boxing Organization welterweight title via a lopsided unanimous decision at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas.

Pacquiao repeatedly peppered Mosley with sharp combinations, forcing the American to be on the defensive for much of the one-sided bout. The Filipino champion floored Mosley in the third round with a right straight-left hook combination from which Mosley never fully recovered. After tasting the sting of Pacquiao's punches, the former three-division champion rarely went on the offensive and spent much of the remaining rounds trying to anticipate where Pacquiao's next blows would come from.

The three judges scored it 120-107, 120-108, and 119-107.

Mosley was credited with a knockdown in the 10th round after Pacquiao fell back on his behind. Replays showed Pacquiao was pushed and it also appeared Mosley was stepping on Pacquiao's foot. But Pacquiao was so dominating that round that based on the official scorecards, none of the judges gave Mosley the standard 10-8 score.

Outside of that phantom knockdown, it was all Pacquiao. Mosley was never into the fight, unable to get any type of offense going and at times already cringing even before a Pacquiao punch landed.

Pacquiao saw his record improve to 54-3-2 while Mosley slipped to 46-7-1 with one no-contest. The fighting congressman from Sarangani is slated to face Juan Manuel Marquez on November 12, while the 39-year-old Mosley will likely retire after losing badly for the second time in his last three fights.

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Watch Pacquiao vs Mosley Online as it will be the most explosive fight this year. Both fighters are training very hard to keep their gears on ready. Sugar Shane Mosley is now training in Big Bears, California, around 8,000 miles outside Los Angeles. He is all set up to defeat the undisputed pound for pound king to grab hold of his WBO Welterweight World title. The much awaited fight will happen in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada this May 7.

So again, The boxing ring's pound-for-pound king Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao will go head-to-head with American veteran boxer "Sugar" Shane Mosley on May 7 (May 8 in the Philippines) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The 32-year-old Pinoy southpaw and congressman will be defending his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title against his 39-year-old opponent who once beat Mexico's Antonio "Tijuana Tornado" Margarito. Be sure that you Watch Pacquiao Vs Mosley.

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Pacquiao, Mosley weigh in for WBO title fight

Pacquiao vs Mosley Live Stream. Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino congressman who holds two world titles, puts his World Boxing Organization title on the line when he meets Shane Mosley in a welterweight bout on Saturday.

Pacquiao and challenger Mosley weighed in Friday for their title fight in front of a standing-room only crowd of about 6,500 at the MGM Grand Garden arena.

Pacquiao, who is a 6-1 favorite, tipped the scales at 145 pounds and American Mosley was 147 pounds.

The 32-year-old Pacquiao stripped off his red and blue track suit and stepped onto the scale wearing just his shorts and white socks as a roar went up from the mostly Filipino crowd.

"I believe Shane Mosley is a good fighter and he trained his hardest for this fight so I have had to train even harder," said Pacquiao, who is also the WBC super welterweight champion.

The two boxers shook hands and embraced but the congeniality ends here as they make final preparations for Saturday contest.

The 39-year-old Mosley is hoping to dethrone Pacquiao who is making the second defense of his WBO title he won by beating Miguel Cotto in the same arena in November 2009.

Mosley, who arrived wearing a light blue track suit, said he could hear the roar of Pacquiao's supporters back stage.

"There are a lot of fans here and I hear a lot of Manny's fans. It will be a big task tomorrow when I fight Manny," said Mosley, who is the only boxer to beat Oscar de la Hoya twice.

Pacquiao fans started lining up outside the front doors of the arena eight hours before Friday's weigh-in to get a glimpse of their boxing hero.

They came draped in Filipino flags and wearing yellow which is the color Pacquiao has asked them to wear on Saturday. Tickets were sold out five weeks in advanced for the fight. Many who were there didn't have tickets to the fight so this was their only chance to see Pacquiao in person.

By noon the crowd outside the front entrance to the Grand Garden had swelled to thousands and security had trouble at times keeping the walk ways clear and making sure no bottles got inside the arena. It was mainly a festive mood -- lots of alcohol but in plastic cups -- and no major incidents.

Thousands more who showed up too late were turned away and couldn't get in for the main event weigh-in which lasted only about 10 minutes.

Americo Canque flew in from Manila to see the fight. This is the fourth time he has traveled to the United States to see the Sarangani congressman fight.

"I think Manny will knock him out in seven rounds," said the 55-year-old electrician. "Manny has too much speed he is very strong. Mosley has the experience but he is too old."

Canque said the entire country of 96 million will come to a standstill when the fight happens.

"He is more popular than our president," Canque said.

Rose Regino was first in line Friday and part of a group of about 20 Pacquiao fans that showed up at 7 in the morning.

"Manny is going to fight like Bruce Lee," said the 40-year-old banker, who lives in Las Vegas. "We are so excited."

Las Vegas' Keo Moya is pulling for Mosley to win but he was definitely in the minority.

The 10-year-old from Las Vegas said the longer the fight goes, the better it is for Pacquiao.

"If Mosley has a chance, it is in the first three rounds," Moya said. "He is older so he needs to attack first. If that doesn't happen then Pacquiao will win."

Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, says this week he wants the Filipino southpaw to force the action enough to throw Mosley off his guard.

"Most older fighters go forward well but they can't go backwards in the ring," Roach said. "They can be aggressive but if you can get them on their heels and they are kind of lost. The legs don't get them out the way like they used to."

Roach insists this has been one of their best training camps ever for a title fight. He is hoping "Pac-Man" can do something no other boxer has ever been able to achieve and deliver the first knockout of Mosley in his 18-year career.

Mosley has rarely even been knocked down in a career that has seen him win four world titles.

Roach said one of the keys to beating Mosley is for Pacquiao to keep throwing punches at the end of exchanges instead of resisting the temptation to clinch.

"Shane likes to hit and grab. When he grabs he is reaching for you and that leaves him open for a punch," Roach said. "We worked on that a lot.

"I think that is where we are going to beat Shane -- down the middle."

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Juan Manuel Marquez expected at weigh-in, and as Pacquiao's next foe?

Fight promoter Top Rank is expecting a visit from world lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez at its 3 p.m. weigh-in Friday for the Manny Pacquiao-Shane Mosley fight.

It's significant because it will be Marquez's first public step away from Top Rank's rival promoter, Golden Boy in Los Angeles, and because of the Mexican fighter's strong position to be Pacquiao's next opponent in November. [Updated 2:29 p.m. May 6: The date of the potential fight would be Nov. 12.]

Pacquiao promoter Bob Arum said Thursday night he believes Marquez is the front-runner to next fight Pacquiao, as long as the Filipino star does as expected Saturday and defeats 8-to-1 underdog Mosley at MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas.

Arum said a third Pacquiao-Marquez bout could be fought either in Las Vegas, or back at Cowboys Stadium in Texas, where Pacquiao fought twice in 2010.

Marquez (52-5-1, 38 KOs) fought Pacquiao to a 2004 draw as featherweights, and then dropped a narrow split decision in a 2008 super-featherweight meeting.

As Pacquiao has proceeded to overwhelming triumphs against the likes of Oscar De La Hoya, Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton and Antonio Margarito since, a nagging question has been his inability to return to the man who has given him such difficult tests.

Arum said Thursday he's willing to have a 144-pound weight limit for the welterweight title fight. As the 135-pound lightweight champ, Marquez, who turns 38 in August, previously was overwhelmed when he tried moving up in weight to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Golden Boy Chief Executive Richard Schaefer has said his company still has the right to attempt to match any offer Marquez receives for a fight through next year, but matching Pacquiao money will be quite a challenge, so Top Rank officials say they are confident Marquez can jump ship.

Schaefer said Friday perhaps "a fight against [Saul] 'Canelo' Alvarez," could generate the money Marquez will be offered by Top Rank.
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Manny Pacquiao weighs in lighter than Shane Mosley

Manny Pacquiao weighed in just two pounds lighter than American Shane Mosley after the Filipino was welcomed by deafening cheers from his supporters on the eve of Saturday's WBO welterweight title fight.

Pacquiao, 52-3-2 (38 knockouts), tipped the scales at 145 pounds in front of a boisterous crowd of about 6,500 at the MGM Grand Hotel's Garden Arena.

Mosley, 46-6-1 (39 KOs), was weighed first and was right on the 147-pound limit for the scheduled 12-round bout.

The two fighters were all smiles as they posed for the photographers for their pre-fight pictures and they embraced one another once that task was done.

"I am just so excited to be in this fight," Mosley, a 39-year-old veteran who is a three-division world champion, said on the stage. "The whole world is watching. It should be great."

Pacquiao, a 10-times world champion in a record eight weight divisions, is a 6-1 favorite to win but he has taken great pains not to underestimate his American challenger.

"I believe that Shane Mosley is a strong fighter, a good fighter," the 32-year-old Filipino said. "He has trained hard for this fight so I have to train hard and focus on this fight."

Pacquiao and Mosley are renowned for being ideal boxing ambassadors and have refused to indulge in any of the pre-bout trash-talking so common in the sport.

NO TRASH TALKING

"This is a good example for the boxing fans and for all the fighters," Pacquiao told reporters earlier this week.

"The fight will be happy and a good example for the children who are idolizing the fighters, especially Mosley and me."

The atmosphere was electric as the two fighters made their way on to a raised stage for Friday's televised weigh-in where former boxing great Roberto Duran and Britain's WBA world light welterweight champion Amir Khan were among those attending.

Shouts of "Manny, Manny" rang out before the tracksuit-clad boxers finally emerged, Pacquiao and Mosley each smiling and waving to the fans before stepping on to the scales.

There were also friendly boos for Mosley who, despite being born in nearby Pomona, California, had a much smaller number of supporters in the arena.

Pacquiao is fighting for the first time since he recorded a ruthless points victory over Mexican Antonio Margarito in November for his eighth world title in an unprecedented eight weight class.

Mosley has not competed in the ring since his draw with Sergio Mora in September.

Pacquiao, already acknowledged as one of the best offensive fighters of all time, is guaranteed $20 million from Saturday's bout while Mosley will earn a minimum $5 million.

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Pacquiao wants Mosley seeing yellow stars

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — If Filipino pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao gets his way on Saturday, Shane Mosley will be seeing a blur of yellow at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino.

The eight-division world champion and Filipino congressman plans to wear yellow boxing gloves in the ring for his world title fight Saturday as a symbol of his struggle to end poverty in his native Philippines.

"All my life I have had to fight. At first as a child I had to fight just to get something to eat," said Pacquiao. "I believe this world needs new heroes. The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing but it is now to end poverty in my country.

"So this Saturday I will wear yellow gloves as a symbol of unity."

Pacquiao marks his return to Las Vegas for the first time since November 2009 by fighting America Mosley for the World Boxing Organization welterweight title.

Tickets for the scheduled 12-round fight at the Garden Arena sold out five weeks in advance. Millions more are expected to watch the fight from the Philippines and around the world on pay-per-view television.

Pacquiao and the four-time world champion Mosley stood side-by-side and posed for pictures at a news conference in the Hollywood Theater inside the MGM hotel on Wednesday.

They spoke briefly from the podium which also featured trainers, managers and support staff from both camps. Promoter Bob Arum said they are pleased bring Pacquiao back to Las Vegas after staging both of Pacquiao's fights last year at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas.

"We had two fights in the stadium in Dallas we are happy to be back here in Las Vegas," Arum said. "Las Vegas needs to have these kinds of fights."

The outgoing mayor of Las Vegas Oscar Goodman and Canadian singer-songwriter Dan Hill were also in attendance. Goodman presented both fighters with "good luck mayor gambling chips". The Grammy-award winning Hill has teammed up with aspiring singer Pacquiao who regularly covers Hill's classic 1970's ballad "Sometimes When We Touch".

No doubt Hill will get an invite to Pacquiao's post-fight "Beach Party" at the nearby Mandalay Bay Hotel where 'Pac-Man' plans to perform with his band.

Pacquiao warmed up for the occasion by singing a line from the song at Wednesday's news conference.

The announcement of the Beach Party and Pacquiao's planned singing engagement immediately after the title fight drew chuckles from the Mosley camp. But there was no trash talking as the camps kept their distance.

The 39-year-old Mosley, of Los Angeles, may have a 3 1/2 inch height advantage and 7 1/2 inch reach advantage but he gives away seven years in age to the younger and heavily favoured Pacquiao.

Mosley said he doesn't mind being the underdog.

"That's fine. My goal is to get the victory and the win. We can talk about me being the underdog after the fight.

"I can do all the things I used to do five years ago. Don't ask me about 10 years ago because I can't remember back that far," Mosley joked.

Pacquiao said he had enjoyed one of his best training camps ever and is hoping to validate that by do something no other boxer has been able to achieve before: prevent Mosley from going the distance.

Mosley has gone 53 fights in his 18-year career without being knocked out.

The Filipino southpaw said the last time he trained this hard for a fight was 2008 when he fought Oscar de la Hoya and beat him in eight rounds.

"I am 100 percent and I would never underestimate Mosley," Pacquiao said. "He is not old. He moves like a 31-year old and he still has a lot of speed."

Pacquiao has won 13 fights in a row and has not lost in nearly six years. In that span he has dispatched such stars as de la Hoya, Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto and Juan Manuel Marquez.

Pacquiao has also claimed world titles in eight weight classes. He typically divides his time training for a fight between the Philippines and the USA but for this fight they decided to make a change.

So they spent five weeks, instead of three, training in Los Angeles.

"We are ready for this fight," trainer Freddie Roach said. "This has been our best training camp ever and Manny is in the best shape. He has to be because we are fighting one of the most crafty fighters ever in Shane Mosley."

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Pacquiao ready for Mosley's best

Great athletes need challenges. And in 1996, Roy Jones felt he was running out of them. So that June, the then-No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world decided to create one. On the afternoon of his super middleweight title fight against Eric Lucas, Jones suited up for the USBL's Jacksonville Barracudas. He played 14 minutes that day. Seven hours later, he made Lucas quit in 33.

"What would really be great would be to fight a true double-header -- two championship fights in the same night," Jones told The New York Times. "People would think I couldn't do it."

Manny Pacquiao doesn't need any new challenges. The No. 1 fighter in the world has plenty right in front of him. A day in the life of Pacquiao includes managing countless media obligations (which he rarely turns down), promoting his burgeoning singing career (his first U.S. single was released last week) and posing for pictures with the scores of fans that seem to follow him everywhere. Then there are his Congressional duties in the Philippines -- he met with President Obama in February -- and, oh yeah, training for the biggest fight of the year, Saturday's welterweight showdown with Shane Mosley (9 p.m. ET, Showtime PPV).

"That's my life, to keep busy," Pacquiao said. "I like to do a lot of things in my life. This is how I motivate myself [for] this upcoming fight."

Indeed, Pacquiao could probably use an extra dose of motivation. The selection of the 39-year-old Mosley has been roundly criticized, from the casual fans who continue to clamor for a deal with Floyd Mayweather to the diehards who insist Juan Manuel Marquez was more deserving. In his heyday Mosley was a feared fighter, but his recent resume -- a 12-round thumping at the hands of Mayweather and an uninspired draw with Sergio Mora -- suggests his competitive days are behind him.

Pacquiao, however, believes Mosley has something left in the tank.

"Shane Mosley is still very strong and he moves more like he's 30 years old," Pacquiao said. "I'm excited for this fight because Mosley can throw a lot of punches and he wants to fight toe-to-toe. He's a former pound-for-pound champion and he's a good fighter."

Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, agrees.

"Mosley brings speed, power and he has a good team behind him," Roach said. "I think we have a big challenge ahead of us. The way we go about attacking Shane is going to have a lot of thought behind it. If you just walk into Shane and attack him you just walk into the fire. He'll counterpunch the hell out of you and he has knockout power."

Ah, the knockout. That's more fuel for the fire. Pacquiao has leveled nearly every opponent put in front of him the last two years. Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto didn't make it to the final bell. (Antonio Margarito did, but only because Pacquiao took it easy when referee Laurence Cole ignored the Filipino's repeated appeals to stop the fight.)

Margarito had to table negotiations for a July fight with Cotto because his post-Pacquiao face had not healed enough for sparring.

Joshua Clottey went the distance with Pacquiao but only because he spent the entire fight using his arms as a shield.

Mosley won't do that. Power is the last thing to go in a fighter and Mosley has still got some pop. He knocked out the steel-jawed Margarito in 2009. He buckled the elusive Mayweather in the second round. Mosley is a come-forward, press-the-action fighter who isn't in many dull scraps.

There's another thing about Mosley: He has never been knocked out. It's a fact Pacquiao's team is keenly aware of and is using as a tool to further motivate their man for this fight.

"It would be incredible for Manny to be the first one to stop him and just prove to the world how much better he is than that guy [Mayweather] that couldn't stop him," Roach said. "I think Manny will fight at a fast pace. I don't know if (Mosley) will be prepared to fight at that pace but we're going to force the action and we're going to go for it this time. If it comes, it comes. I think Manny is definitely the guy to do it."

Pacquiao insists that the myriad potential distractions aren't an issue. He took a lengthy break from training after the Margarito fight to commit to his political career, a hiatus Pacquiao says has made him hungrier. Roach claims this has been Pacquiao's best training camp ("From Day 1 he has been on fire") and says they are "100 percent ready" with a game plan to beat Mosley. To avoid overconfidence, Roach has spent most of his time reviewing Mosley's best fights (specifically the one against Margarito) and not his most recent body of work.

"If Mosley brings his best we're ready for his best," Roach said. "I don't think there is any room for an upset. We've done everything we can to get ready for the fight."

Gone through everything, too. As Jones would probably agree, when it comes to challenges outside the ring, Pacquiao has more than enough.

Source: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/

No reason why Mosley won’t lose by KO

ON May 8 (Manila Time), Manny Pacquiao is scheduled to climb the ring again.

But will he really fight that day?

I doubt it very much.

He’ll maul another sorry victim – that I’m sure of.

But that’s going ahead of the story.

The last time Pacquiao fought, in November 2010, he ended up with swollen knuckles. His hands ached.

First, because he had a bloated customer in Antonio Margarito.

Second, Margarito was not made of grains but of granite.

In that fight, the super-welterweight crown for 154-pounders was on the line.

But Pacquiao could only weigh 150 lb when the first bell rang. That was the heaviest Pacquiao could weigh, given that he’s barely 5-foot-6 and, basically, a natural lightweight (130-135 lb).

And because Margarito towered to almost six feet, he could easily go beyond 160 lb. In fact, he came in at 167, or 17 pounds heavier than Pacquiao.

That mattered.

So that the bout virtually pitted David against Goliath.

History repeating itself?

You bet.

Wasn’t Pacquiao the David when he slew his first Goliath in De La Hoya?

Wasn’t Pacquiao the David when he slew his second Goliath in Cotto?

Wasn’t Pacquiao the David when he slew his third Goliath in Clottey?

And then came Margarito.

You already know what happened to Margarito.

From being called “Mexican Tornado” before the fight, Pacquiao renamed Margarito to “Mexican Tomato” after the fight.

Pacquiao couldn’t floor Margarito as 17 pounds was just too much for his fists.

Still, Pacquiao’s fists feasted on the face all night that at fight’s end, Margarito’s face was so badly battered, it became as red as Mexican tomato. Bizarrely, it also resembled much of a smashed watermelon in summer.

Why the referee in that fight didn’t halt the carnage as early as the 10th shocked the world that it would quickly supplant the mystique of the sorrowful mystery.

Pacquiao’s unanimous 12-round points victory over Margarito merely validated the fact that, to the ring legend, both height and weight matter not.

Thus, even as Pacquiao would again be fighting a foe taller and heftier than him in Mosley, he’d still prevail. Easily again, I must insist.

Mosley is boasting of holding three world crowns, of having beaten such greats like De La Hoya, Vargas and even Margarito.

But all that is history now and, at 39 years of age, he is also history already.

In fact, Mosley’s remaining link to greatness – that of not having been knocked out in his 46-6-1, win-loss-draw career with 39 KOs – will be finally shattered by Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs) on Sunday.

If Mosley will survive Pacquiao and he loses merely on points to the 32-year-old Pacman, it would be by dint of luck.

Pacquiao’s conqueror has yet to be born.

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Fight Review: Shane Mosley's key bouts

We can't predict what will happen Saturday in Las Vegas, but a review of several key fights in Shane Mosley's career may hint at how he'll match up against Manny Pacquiao.

1. Winky Wright I
When: March 13, 2004, Las Vegas
Result: Mosley loses by unanimous decision in 12
What it means: As an opponent, there's a lot that Wright doesn't have in common with Pacquiao. Pacquiao is explosive; Wright's style was always more like a muffler. Winky stood 5-foot-10½, four inches taller than Manny, and Wright is a career junior middleweight who fought as heavy as 170 pounds. The similarity? Like Pacquiao, Wright fights left-handed. From the southpaw stance, Wright handed Mosley two of his six career defeats.

In this first of their two bouts, Wright came out more aggressively than usual, outjabbing Mosley and using the jab to set up repeated hard lefts. Mosley was at 154 pounds for only the third time, challenging for Wright's junior middleweight title, and his best hope in combating Wright's size advantage was to outbox him. But Mosley was flustered and unable to set the pace. He couldn't penetrate and defended poorly, often circling to his own right, toward that pesky left hand, instead of away from it.

Part of Mosley's problem in the fight was Wright's size. But Pacquiao as a smaller southpaw will present a different (yet similar) problem. Size and speed both are a means for controlling space in the ring, and Pacquiao uses his blazing speed to compensate for his lack of size. He punishes opponents in skirmishes over space by moving in and out with brutal punches. Mosley has done better against other southpaws, handling journeyman Raul Marquez in 2003 and contender Luis Collazo in 2007 (though Collazo landed some solid lefts). Still, based on Mosley's troubles with Wright, Pacquiao's southpaw stance is likely to give Mosley one more thing to worry about.

2. Miguel Cotto
When: Nov. 10, 2007, New York
Result: Mosley loses by unanimous decision in 12
What it means: Mosley doesn't have past opponents in his portfolio who really simulate Pacquiao's dynamite. But Cotto, circa 2007, came close. Remember, Mosley fought a pre-damaged Cotto, before Cotto took a beating at the suspect hands of Antonio Margarito. Cotto was 27 years old. He was 30-0 with 25 knockouts, a pressure fighter with a killer body attack and underappreciated hand speed (though nowhere near as nimble as Pacquiao). Cotto is short like Pacquiao, too, at 5-7.

The 5-9 Mosley seemed comfortable fighting a shorter man. He stood in, traded flurries and scored with solid rights. Cotto gave back -- gave Mosley maybe the roughest fight of his career. Cotto, having built a lead, backed Mosley up with a lunging left to end Round 9. But Mosley turned Cotto's head with a cracking right to the jaw in Round 10. Round 11 was brutal, as both fighters landed body and head shots. Mosley surged to win the final round. A close decision went to Cotto. Mosley took plenty of punishment, but he didn't get stopped. He never has been. Against Cotto he demonstrated the chin, stamina and guts he'll most certainly need if he wants to keep that streak alive versus Pacquiao.

3. Antonio Margarito
When: Jan. 24, 2009, Los Angeles
Result: Mosley wins by TKO in 9
What it means: What can Mosley's mega-upset over Antonio Margarito tell us about Pacquiao-Mosley? Well, Margarito has something in common with Pacquiao, despite their physical differences. Like PacMan, Margarito was known for a relentless, come-forward attack and high-volume punching (he had thrown an insane 1,675 punches against Joshua Clottey). Against that style, Mosley was able to control the pace of this fight, keeping Margarito's output low by timing his rushes, sliding to angles, punishing him to the body, landing winging rights to the head and muscling him carefully in close. "Swim without getting wet," is how Mosley's trainer Naazim Richardson described the game plan to get in, punch and get out. It worked.

After a few rounds, Mosley had Margarito backing up. He floored him to close Round 8, and less than a minute into Round 9, with Mosley pounding Margarito on the ropes, referee Raul Caiz Jr. stepped in and stopped it. No one expects Mosley to handle Pacquiao like that, but with this giant win late in his career, Mosley showed that at age 37 he still could summon champion-caliber speed and finishing power. Now he needs to do it one more time.

4. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
When: May 1, 2010, Las Vegas
Result: Mosley loses by unanimous decision in 12
What it means: Every so often, Mosley comes out at the opening bell looking agitated and tightly wound, doing everything in a jerky, ultra-tense fast-motion. He seems to ramp it up like this when he's facing quickness and skill equal to his own. His first fight against Oscar De La Hoya was like that (it was likened to a game of speed chess), and so was his meeting with Floyd Mayweather Jr. last May. Expect the same intense, hair-trigger approach from Mosley against Pacquiao.

The amped-up electricity worked early for Mosley in this fight. In Round 2, he rocked Mayweather with a right, muscled out of a desperate Mayweather clinch and pursued him to the ropes. But Mayweather is a ring genius whose masterful defense (grabbing, parrying, rolling his shoulder) has yet to be cracked. Mayweather survives rare onslaughts, spends a few rounds figuring an opponent out, then dominates. Mosley was no exception: Mayweather made his mental notes, methodically turned the tables and took complete control.

If any opponent has prepared Mosley to face Pacquiao, it was Mayweather. But was the education too brutal? In Mosley's next fight, versus Sergio Mora, he was listless, and the battle was a dud. So the question that's left to ask about Shane Mosley: Did the drubbing he took from Mayweather ruin him? Or does he selectively save his super sauce for the super-fights? No doubt he'll come out tightly wound and ready to spring against Manny Pacquiao. Will it be enough?

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Roach willing to bet everything on Pacquiao

Prior to Manny Pacquiao’s fight against Mexican Antonio Margarito last year, chief trainer Freddie Roach announced he was willing to bet his house on the Filipino boxing icon, who was then perceived to be ill-prepared owing to many distractions that punctuated his preparations.

Two days before Team Pacquiao drives to Las Vegas, site of his World Boxing Organization welterweight championship bout with Shane “Sugar” Mosley, Roach said he is ready to lose everything if only to prove to all that his 32-year-old pupil is ready to rumble, defend his 147-pound crown and remain the world’s pound-for-pound king after their showdown on May 7 in Las Vegas.

“Yes, I’m willing to bet everything – my house, my car, everything I own – that Manny will beat the hell out of Shane this coming Saturday (Sunday in Manila) and emerge with his reputation intact,” the 51-year-old four-time ‘Trainer of the Year’ honoree told this writer right after Pacquiao ended his three-week training at Roach-owned Wild Card Gym in Hollywood.
Against Margarito, I told you that had I been married and had children, I would have bet them, too,” he recalled. “Now, find me someone willing to buy the soul of a 51-year-old trainer who believes that there’s nothing, not even the dreaded right hand of Mosley can stop Manny from keeping his six-year unbeaten record immaculate.”

Roach then reiterated that the camp, Team Pacquiao pitched, first in the pleasant Baguio City the in Los Angeles, has never been as perfect as it had been.

“I told you when we left Manila that Baguio was the best start we’ve had in our 10-year partnership. That ideal set up continued here in L.A. where we not only maintained the gains we accomplished in Baguio, we improved tremendously on them a lot” Roach assured.

“It’s too bad You didn’t see Manny sparred against three, four sparmates while we’re here, but I assure you, I never saw him packed power in both fists. I never saw him as fast in both his hands and feet. In short, this was the first time I saw Manny so focused, so determined and so hardworking in following his regimen and the things member of the coaching staff had instructed him,” Roach remarked.

“His execution of the game plan and strategies we mapped out was superb. Alex (conditioning coach Alex Ariza, and sparring partners Shawn (Porter), Ray (Beltran), David (Rodela), Rashad (Halloway) can all attest to that,” he pointed out.

“He’s a f-----g beast,” B“He’s a f-----g beast,” Beltran, who has been with the them for the past seven years and had sparred with Pacquiao for more or less 400 rounds, said with great emphasis, “like a monster, so intense.”

And for those who still doubt Pacquiao’s readiness should listen to Porter, who has been giving the eight-division kingpin the hardest sparring.

“Yes, Pacman is ready to go to war, “ Porter told this writer in a separate interview, recalling their intense sparring Thursday when they drew cheers from onlookers who were lucky to have sneaked through the strict closed-door session.

"We went five rounds. The fourth round, I got him on the ropes, I started throwing, he started exchanging, and I say I can't stop til' he stops,” Porter related.

“I guess he was thinking the same thing. We were there for about one minute, I didn't let him off the ropes, he tried to move, maybe one time he tried to move, and I didn't let him go anywhere, and we just stayed there for about a minute banging, and that was at the end of the fourth round and my dad said, 'Come on over you got to recover, we got one more' and that's how it is with Manny Pacquiao. You got to give it your all."
The 23-year-old undefeated NABF welterweight champion Porter (18-0-0, 13 KOs) is Pacquiao's chief sparring partner who has brought out the best out of the Pacman.

Saturday followed the same pattern in capping the Wild Card portion of the camp against Porter and Beltran against whom he displayed the explosiveness, speed, power and sharp reflexes that has been his trademark en route to nabbing eight world championship belts.

"Hopefully I've made the fight easy for him," Porter commented after engaging Pacquiao in a slugging contest, giving the champ all his best shots, throwing hooks and body shots that Mosley is expected to dish out on fight night.

Porter, who arguably punches as hard as Mosley and considerably moves as fast, has, according to Roach definitely set up Pacquiao for success, giving him the best work out of all the other sparring partners used.

Source: http://philboxing.com/

Pacquiao lighter, but still packs a wallop

As he was jumping rope Friday afternoon, Manny Pacquiao was a bit concerned that his current weight is a bit low.

But the Filipino star quickly assured a handful of those listening that while he may be a bit underweight, his punches can still knock just anyone senseless, including Shane Mosley when they face off on May 7 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

“Payat nga ako pero mataba naman ang suntok ko,” said Pacquiao, who will not only be defending his World Boxing Organization welterweight crown but the mythical title of pound-for-pound crown as well.

Pacquiao, who started out as a light-flyweight (108 lbs) in the mid-1990s, said he could still make lightweight (135 lbs) since he is not cutting down on his eating habits.

“I can make lightweight if I want to,” said Pacquiao.

Still, Pacquiao’s ferocious showing was enough to give a smile on trainer Freddie Roach’s face all-afternoon long as the 32-year-old lefty pushed himself to the limit during training at the Wild Card Boxing Club.

“My concern now is how to slow him down (in training),” said Roach.

Pacquiao explained why he is asking Roach for an extra round, an extra minute, during the mitts session and in almost anything that he does.

“I am just trying to make sure that I will be in great shape when the fight comes,” Pacquiao told Manila-based scribes while he was dressing up for a gig at Staples Center later in the day.

“I am also pumped up for training,” said Pacquiao, who expects Mosley to be in excellent condition when they answer the bell before a sellout crowd at the 17,000-seat venue.

Roach said that while Pacquiao “is on fire the last two days of training and knows the gameplan,” he has “to slow him down, have him do fewer rounds so he could save it for the fight.”

Pacquiao is a heavy favorite to repulse Mosley’s challenge but Roach wants his fighter to do it in stunning fashion by becoming the first puncher to deal Mosley a knockout defeat.

Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/

The Modern Myth of Mosley

In May of 2010 when Shane Mosley entered the ring against the finest defensive fighter of our time, Floyd Mayweather Jr it was widely believed that he would need to find ways to corner Floyd or cut off the ring in order to have any chance at success. Conventional wisdom told us that if he couldn’t stay close or get Mayweather to exchange with him that he would have little to no shot at winning.

By almost all pre-fight theories Mosley’s role clearly would be that of the aggressor and Mayweather’s of the methodical somewhat offensively passive boxer. That was the conventional wisdom going in to the fight. But, what was so surprising about what actually occurred in the ring was that Mayweather stood his ground and not only out punched Shane but he out fought him too. Mayweather did his own version of walking his man down and towards the end of that fight it almost appeared as if it would lead to a TKO. Mosley’s trainer, Nazim Richardson made it quite clear in no uncertain terms that if Shane didn’t find a way to limit the incoming shots or have some offensive success of his own that he would have to “do something he didn’t want to do”! He was right for warning Mosley and many who witnessed the fight agreed with that message. But, to listen to Shane now as he prepares for a May 2011 bout against the finest offensive fighter of our time, Manny Pacquiao there’s a kind of passive manipulation going on which borders on out right deception. Their logic is simple. Manny is more aggressive than Floyd and if you buy into what they’re suggesting apparently that will translate into more opportunities for Mosley. But, what they leave out is that Floyd pretty much took on the role of the aggressor which nearly all believed would play right into Shane’s hands yet it resulted (except for round 2) in a one way thrashing. The reality is that Mosley was out fought by a man who is defensive in nature and who fought in a style that was supposed to benefit him yet HE still could not capitalize.

The fact that his trainer was actually thinking about intervening against a man whose power has been questioned at welterweight and although an accurate puncher by no means a volume puncher tells us something very important about Shane and if you’re paying attention that message should not be overlooked. Now, Shane is heading into a match against a man who IS known for his offensive attack and who IS a volume puncher and whose power has not been questioned at welterweight yet many continue to hype this fight in an overtly optimistic fashion. But, for those of you who enjoy big time boxing but also hope for a little integrity you probably accept this match up for what it is. In other words, the 2011 version of Shane Mosley IS the perfect opponent at this stage for the 2011 version of Manny Pacquiao!

There is nothing but upside from Manny’s perspective. He stays active while not truly being threatened and he’s paid handsomely for it.

In 2009, Sugar Shane Mosley was deemed too dangerous for Pacquiao but in 2011 his trainer, Freddie Roach has given the proverbial “thumbs up!” There’s a reason for that and it doesn’t solely lie in the fact that Mosley’s promotional allegiance permits this fight now when in 2009 it would have been a little bit trickier. There’s no question that Shane’s recent break up with Golden Boy Promotions was another check mark on the “good side” but the driving factor is certainly Mosley’s clear and undeniable physical decline. They could sell this fight with the highlight footage of Mosley crushing Antonio Margarito and the suggestion that he does much better against fighters than he does against boxers. In this case, they leave out that Manny Pacquiao can do both pretty darn well so he doesn’t necessarily need to knock Shane out because he can out land, out speed and out maneuver him. That’s why he’s a safe opponent and Roach knows it. What Roach really see’s now that he didn’t see back in 2009 is that Mosley much like De La Hoya before him can no longer pull the trigger and for that reason doesn’t have the ability to capitalize against his man who does have defensive deficiencies but also has shown tremendous speed and maneuverability to overcome those technical flaws.

The “possibility” that Shane could once again turn back the hands of time and snatch victory from a certain demise is the theme Top Rank wants the consumer base to embrace. Those poor performances against Mayweather and Mora are being dismissed as just stylistic nightmares for Mosley but the reality is that Shane Mosley no longer has the reflexes or the ability to compete at this elite level. The fight against Mayweather may be forgivable considering the level of opposition but the draw against Mora is not.

This fight for many is more about simply watching arguably the best fighter in the world perform and not necessarily about seeing him be tested so its important to maintain that perspective if you’re a serious boxing observer. As a group we should scrutinize the matches of our best fighters agree to and expect that they will test themselves against the best opposition available while not falling into the trap that just about every major boxing superstar of the last 35 years has fallen into and that’s allowing the business side of boxing solely dictate the match ups.

Long term those fights don’t improve the star themselves and not only cheat us but tarnishes that fighter’s legacy.

From a fighter’s perspective, if the ultimate goal is fighting and beating Floyd Mayweather Jr these bouts against Clottey, Margarito and now Mosley do nothing to prepare him for the kind of technical challenges he’ll face against Mayweather.

Source: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/

“Manny should fight hard and fight smart” - Roach

While he rules out an upset when World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao battles “Sugar” Shane Mosley, trainer Freddie Roach is worried about the Filipino ring icon’s penchant to mix it up if only to make fans who would watch the fight happy.

“Manny has always wanted to give the fans their money’s worth and for that, he makes himself open to whoever his opponent to hit him, thinking that he’s too fast to really be hit hard,” Roach told this writer in an interview after yesterday’s workout at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles.

“And that’s what I worry about. Remember (Antonio) Margarito? Well, Manny beat him black and blue, but Antonio was able to connect a few times to hurt Manny. I don’t want that to happen,” he said in reference to the Pacquiao-Margarito fight November last year. “The fact that Mosley knocked Margarito out only means that he’s more of a power puncher than Margarito.”

In that fight, held at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas, the pound-for-pound king easily disposed of Margarito but not until after receiving some telling blows to the ribs as he willingly stood toe-to-toe against his bigger opponent in his desire to test how powerful the latter was and to please the more than 40,000 crowd.

“I don’t mind Manny engaging Mosley as he did in his previous opponents, but to avoid the taking a single knockout punch, which Mosley is capable of throwing, I kept telling him to fight hard, yes, but fight smart,” Roach said
Roach said the eight-division kingpin will always be open to extreme danger in the ring because he chooses to engage his opponents.

He said he doesn’t blame Manny for his style because that what makes him the most exciting fighter in the world today.
When he lets his hands go, he leaves himself open. There is no perfect defense.

Roach, meanwhile, disclosed that after doing the mitts, shadow boxing, working the double end and speed balls and conditioning exercises yesterday, Pacquiao weighed 151 pounds, well within the prescribed 147-pound for the welterweight fight against Mosley.

“As I have been saying, he’s been doing well, Roach assured. “Tomorrow (Thursday U.S. time) he’ll have eight or 10 rounds of sparring against (Shawn) Porter and Beltran, the same frequency on Saturday, his last sparring here in L.A. before proceeding to Las Vegas Monday (Tuesday in Manila),”

Going back to the fight, Roach said Manny is going to throw a lot of combinations and Shane will come right back at him. “That’s why this will be an exciting fight, But when he lets his hands go, he always leaves himself open. There is no perfect game, really.”

“We have a big challenge ahead of us,” Roach said. “Manny is motivated for a reason The way to go about attacking Shane is to have a lot of thought behind it. You walk in and attack him, you walk into fire. He’ll counter the hell out of you. And he has knockout power.”

Although Mosley has an impressive knockout rate – 39 KOs in 54 fights – he set that record primarily early in his career. He started 38-0, with 35 knockouts, but has been just 8-6-1 (with one no-contest), with four knockouts, since.

While he had a dismal performance against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May of last year where he lost by a lopsided decision, he showed he still can hurt an opponent, wobbling Mayweather in the second round. His last two victories against Ricardo Mayorga and Margarito were both via stoppage.

Source: http://philboxing.com/

Mosley will play dirty -- Roach

Desperate time calls for desperate measure.

And Freddie Roach exactly knows such approach is the only way for challenger Sugar Shane Mosley to stand a chance against welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao once they finally stand toe-to-toe in the ring 10 days from now.

As he worked the mitts for 12 rounds with the world’s top pound-for-pound fighter in the world Wednesday (Thursday, Manila time), Roach repeatedly reminded Pacquiao to be wary of Mosley’s dirty tactics.

“Bang! Bang! Bang! He’ll get dirty, he’ll get rough, but it won’t matter,” hollered Roach before a sparse crowd watching him and Pacquiao do their thing at the Wild Card gym here.

“He’ll get dirty. That’s the only way he can win this fight.”

Mosley, 39, remains a 6-2 underdog against Pacquiao in their May 7 fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas where the World Boxing Organization (WBO) 147-pound belt of the fighting congressman from the Philippines will be at stake.

Down to the final five days before training camp tapers down, both Roach and Pacquiao already know their fight plan like the palm of their hands, repeatedly going through the routine non-stop for more than half an hour.

So intense the workout was that not a few times, the 32-year-old Pacquiao staggered Roach, the four-time Trainer of the Year, with solid blows to the body.

But the 51-year-old trainer hardly minded it.

“You’re hurting me. Drive it hard,” Roach howled as he taunted Pacquiao to throw more punches at him.

At one time, Roach even had to use an improvised headband where a video camera -- provided by Showtime -- was placed in order to record up close the excessive workout.

Pacquiao later admitted that even against a 39-year-old opponent whose obviously, already way past his prime, he’s not about to take any chances.

“No way,” Pacquiao told Manila-based sportswriters as he was winding down with his two-hour training. “Kaya nga maaga tayo umakyat (sa Baguio) at nag-ensayo.”

The way training went through yesterday, Roach has no doubt that the eight-time world champion is now ready to take on Mosley head-on.

“We’re 100 percent ready for the fight. If Mosley brings his best, we’re ready for his best,” said Roach, who joined Pacquiao and Top Rank promoter Bob Arum in a media call earlier in the day.

“I don’t think there is any room for an upset, but in boxing you never know. We’re 100 percent ready on our end. We’ve done everything we can to get ready for the fight,” said Roach.

Meanwhile, Kenny Bayless has been named as the third man in the ring for the Pacquiao-Mosley slugfest even as Duane Ford, Dave Moretti and Glenn Trowbridge were appointed as the three judges who will score the bout.

This will be the ninth time Bayless will be calling the shot for a Pacquiao fight, the last of which came in 2009 during the WBO championship match between the Filipino and Miguel Cotto.

In other developments, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum refused to dwell on the offer reportedly made by his promotional outfit to Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez for a possible third fight with boxing sensation Manny Pacquiao this October.

The 79-year old veteran boxing executive stressed it is imperative to concentrate at the moment on the Filipino’s title defense of his welterweight belt two weeks from now.

In a media conference involving him, Pacquiao and trainer Freddie Roach, Arum said at the moment, his attention is solely pre-occupied by the coming fight pitting two of the best 147-pound fighters in the world today.

“Freddie and Manny are preparing for May 7 and we’re not looking past that,” said Arum.

Richard Schaefer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Golden Boy Promotions, the rival outfit of Top Rank, was the first to disclose the offer first reported by ESPN veteran boxing columnist Dan Rafael.

Source: http://www.journal.com.ph/

Manny Pacquiao prepared to go 12 rounds, Not looking for Knockout

On Wednesday, Manny Pacquiao participated in a media conference call to promote his upcoming fight against Shane Mosley on Saturday, May 7th. In addition to Pacquiao, trainer Freddie Roach and promoter Bob Arum also participated. When asked about trying to KO Mosley in the fight, Pacquiao said that he wasn't looking for the KO and is prepared to go the distance. According to BoxingScene.com, Pacquiao made the following comments:

"We're not focused for the knockout. All we do is work hard and if the knockout comes, it comes. We've prepared ourselves for fighting 12 rounds"

For the last several months, Freddie Roach and Bob Arum have continuously hyped up the fight by talking about Manny's historical opportunity to knockout Mosley. Shane has never been knocked out before and Roach would love to see it. In fact, in the same conference call, Roach made the following comments about Manny going for the KO: "I think all fights should end in knockouts so I'm looking for a knockout."

Pacquiao last fought in November against Antonio Margarito. After the fight, Manny went on vacation for a while and then returned to his congressional duties. Pacquiao took time off from training. His time away from the gym rejuvenated his desire to fight, train, and get back into the boxing ring.
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By all accounts, Manny looks in great shape and had one of his best training camps in recent years. Manny is at an elite level of physical conditioning and looked tremendous in sparring. Roach said during the conference call that Manny had his best start ever to his training camp and that it may be the best camp he ever had.

Since the fight became official, Pacquiao has maintained that he will treat Mosley like he's the toughest opponent that he's ever faced. And if the results of his training camp are any indication, Pacquiao is focused on Mosley and any potential upset.

Pacquiao vs. Mosley will take place on Saturday May 7th live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight can be seen on Showtime PPV as the event has been sold out for the last month.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/

Mosley says power, not speed, will spell the difference

For Shane Mosley, Manny Pacquiao's chances of beating him will depend on whether the Filipino legend can withstand his punches.

Mosley, still in his competitive form at 39, said his power will decide the outcome of their fight on May 7 (May 8 in Manila) in Las Vegas.

“People, they see my power and they know that it's going to be an exciting fight. They think that that's pretty much what it is. If they can get past the power, then they can win the fight. And the fans, you know, choose to see knockouts. They want to see people that have good power. They want to see some kind of risk being taken,” he recently told reporters in a conference call.

Not even Mosley's status as an 8-1 underdog would be enough for people to underestimate him.

“The fight is very risky for Manny Pacquiao, to fight somebody like myself, so when you get that, then you get a lot of people who want to see what's going to happen. Is Manny going to get knocked out or is Manny going to knock Shane out. What's going to happen?” the three-division champion added.

Pacquiao and Mosley posses granite chins, and the two fighters have not tasted the canvass for years. The last time Mosley got knocked down was in 2002, when he got decked twice by Vernon Forrest en route to a unanimous decision loss. Pacquiao, meanwhile, went down once in his first fight against Marco Antonio Barrera in 2003 – a knockdown that was supposed to be ruled a slip.

Mosley also brushed aside Pacquiao's advantage in speed, pointing out how they fared against a common foe in Antonio Margarito.

“Well, I look at different fights. I look at the Margarito fight and notice that Margarito landed the most punches ever landed on Manny Pacquiao,” Mosley said, referring to Pacquiao's 12-round beatdown of Margarito last year.

Mosley, for his part, knocked out the tough Mexican in the ninth round of their 2009 fight.

“Margarito couldn't land punches on me, so if Margarito is fast enough to land punches on Manny Pacquiao, then I know that I'm fast enough to land punches on Manny Pacquiao,” he said.

Source: http://www.philstar.com/

Mosley vows to force Pacquiao into defensive mode

May 7 is less than 2 weeks away. Even though “Sugar” Shane Mosley says he will land big punches early in the fight, Manny Pacquiao says he is ready for what can be an epic battle.

“I work hard for this training camp and he work hard to so that's good, good for the fans, we're going to give them a good fight,” Pacquiao says.

In a telephone conference call with the media recently, Mosley said he'll force the usually aggressive Pacman to become a defensive fighter by landing the big punches early.

Mosley, who knocked out Pacquiao's last foe Antonio Margarito in 2009, is confident he has enough speed to upset the Pacman.

“I know Margarito landed the most punches ever on Manny Pacquiao. So if Margarito is fast enough to land punches on Manny Pacquiao, then I know I'm fast enough to land punches on Manny Pacquiao,” the 39 year-old American said.

Mosley even joked about the Pacman's new CD which will be released on Thursday. He says he's excited to hear it, saying it might bring him good luck.

"Yeah, last time I had fought a person with a CD was when I fought Oscar in 2000, and he came out with a CD and he came in the ring with the CD and I won the fight and things are looking good for me right now," he says.

In the meantime, the Pacman is hoping another singer can bring him luck as well—hand picking Charice Pempengco to sing the Philippine national anthem.

“Magaling na singer at para maikilala s'ya sa buong bayan Pilipino at sa makita ang galing niya magkanta,” the boxing champ says.

(She's a very good singer and we like to introduce her to the world, to show how talented she is.)

Source:http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/

Mosley don’t see regrets in fighting Pacquiao

Shane Mosley knows that at 39, he's only as good as his last fight goes.

That's why the former three-division champion vows to pour everything he's got in his May 7 showdown with pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao.

He said he had erased the words "what if" from his vocabulary.

“There's not too many more fights on the horizon,” said Mosley during his conference call on Tuesday. “Each and every fight is very important. I have to make sure that when I leave the fight, there's no regrets.”

So Mosley guarantees to give 100 percent, or muster whatever is left in his arsenal, when he tries to wrest Pacquiao's World Boxing Organization welterweight crown at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Despite the 6-1 odds for Pacquiao, Mosley earnestly believes he has a good chance of ending the Filipino's 13-bout winning streak since 2005 and vaulting back on top of the world's elite boxers.

Having watched and then seen the fight replays on tape of Pacquiao's 12-round domination of his former victim, Antonio Margarito, last November, Mosley said he’s confident of tagging the smaller, lighter Filipino hero.

Mosley said that if the slower Margarito could land so many punches on Pacquiao, then all the more he could, with more devastating effect.

Even if in the course of the envisioned torrid exchanges of punches he’d wind up on the shorter end, Mosley said he would not mind for as long as he had done what should be done.

Meanwhile, Pacquiao sparred for 10 rounds at the Wild Card Gym here Tuesday afternoon with Mexican lightweight Raymundo Beltran and unbeaten American welterweight Shawn Porter (18-0).

A fired-up Pacquiao allowed Beltran to hit him deliberately in the body and ribcage.

Porter, on the other hand, was given a taste of the pyompang punch (hitting both ears at the same time with open palms), similar to the one Pacquiao employed against Joshua Clottey in a 12-round unanimous decision victory last year.

Among those present during the training session were show biz couple Cesar Montano and Sunshine Cruz.

Source: http://sports.inquirer.net/

"Nothing else matters right now" - Shane Mosley relishing an upset over Pacquiao

Earlier today former five-time champion 'Sugar' Shane Mosley participated in an international media conference call in advance of his May 7th clash against WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. Fighting inside of the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Mosley is heading into the bout a huge underdog yet has kept a reserved confidence about him during the lead up to the fight.

Fielding various questions from the assembled media who took their time to call in, Mosley was far from outspoken yet still candid about his chances in the fight, his poor performances in his recent outings, and his true feelings towards Pacquiao's ability as a fighter.

Mosley was questioned as to whether he felt it was necessary for him to start early and find a way to hurt Pacquiao in the opening rounds for a shot at victory but he refuted such thoughts.

"I don't buy into that. A lot of my fights I have knockouts where I have knocked people out late," Mosley opened up.

The Pomona, California fighter also shed light on to why he consistently finds himself in these type of high-profile super fights despite suffering six losses throughout his eighteen-year career.

"People know that they are getting an exciting fight," said Mosley. "If they can get past the power than they can maybe win the fight. This fight is very risky for Manny Pacquiao. Anything can happen."

Someone then asked Shane if he had the speed to deal with Pacquiao, whose fists are still blazing as he moves into the twilight of his career. Shane's counter was definitely effective, as he pointed to the results of Pacquiao's most recent fight, a twelve-round thrashing over Antonio Margarito last November at Cowboys Stadium.

"I look at the Margarito fight and I noticed that Margarito landed the most punches ever on Manny Pacquiao," Shane revealed. "If Margarito is fast enough to land punches on Manny Pacquiao then I know I am fast enough to land punches."

In May of last year Mosley rocked Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the second round of their match but was thoroughly dominated for each stanza afterwards, losing a lopsided decision. Four months later he squared off with former champion Sergio Mora in Los Angeles and had to settle for a majority draw in a fight that was boringly dreadful to watch.

Those two performances have had people screaming that the 39-year old is shot but Mosley points out that without his lackluster efforts against Mayweather and Mora than he might not have found himself where he is today.

"If it wasn't for those two fights I probably wouldn't be here fighting Manny Pacquiao today. So those two fights were needed," Mosley said sharply.

Adding to that, 'Sugar' noted that the underdog role he finds himself in now is of no concern to him.

"It gives me a lot of motivation, to overcome what people are saying," Mosley said. "I don't really care if I am an underdog or not. What matters is what happens in the ring. Nothing else matters right now."

Of course, defying the odds is something that Shane is all too accustomed to, as he has often produced some of his best stuff when his back was to the wall. Tijuana's Margarito was a clear favorite to upend Shane in January of 2009 and Mosley vividly recalls the detractors coming out to play before their fight, which ended with Shane seizing a 9th round TKO.

"The only thing I remember back when I fought Margarito was that everyone thought I was going to get killed and all this crap they were saying," said a bemused Mosley. "It kept motivating me. There were different things going on in my life and I just went to myself and motivated myself and came out with the victory. I just felt good and I had a great training camp that time."

I asked Mosley what his impression was of Pacquiao during his fighting days at 126 and 130 pounds when he was going up against some of the great Mexican pugilists of our era and I also was curious to know how shocked he was to see the Filipino star, who debuted at 106 pounds, move up in weight later in his career while still having great success.

"I thought that he was a very good fighter, even back then," Mosley said with admiration. "He had a lot of energy. And that was a tough division with Morales, Barrera, Marquez and Pacquiao. Then he moved up several weight classes and pretty much did the same thing. It's remarkable. You can only take your hat off to him. He's one of the greats of this era."

While Mosley is quick to pay respect, he doesn't hesitate when fascinating about a victory over Pacquiao on May 7th. He didn't delve into all of the weaknesses that he sees in Pacquiao, but sure enough, he has his reasons for being confident.

"Yeah, I have a lot of advantages, I believe, over him. All I gotta do is exploit them."

Source: http://www.examiner.com/

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