Thread: I hope Mosley fights the right fight.

I've watched Mosley this week fight against Wrightx2, Oscar De La Hoya, Collazo, Vargasx2, and Mayorga. My consensus is that Mosley is at his best when he is coming forward or playing speed chess in the middle of the ring, but as soon as Mosley is forced to back up (like against Winky, first Vargas fight) He seems to want to punch it out. He couldn't break Wright's will, I think he would have been in a lot of trouble in that Vargas fight had the swelling not occured. Either way I would love to see Mosley fight how he did against Vargas in the second fight against Margarito, I think he has the footspeed to do it, and I would love to see him rip those body punches like he used to at lightweight.

I just hope he doesn't all macho and try to wear Margarito down, or try to outhussle the guy.

if he is going to use his foot speed he will be using it to get away from
Margarito. if he is going to beat him he is going to have to beat him at his own game. mosley will have to out brawl him to win and at this point i cant see that happinging. mosley is one of my fav fighters but i dont think he will win this one unless he pulls all the stops. i think mosley will look good in the first few rounds and as the fight goes on Margarito will hunt hunt him down and beat him down.

the fight will be similar to the cotto fight

mosley will need to study it to leard what to do and what not to do

Margarito by late TKO

I think this is a very winnable fight for Mosley. I am still one of the very few who thought Mosley beat Cotto and I still stand by that. I don't think Mosley will run from Tony but I do think he will stand up and try to counterpunch the hell out of him, but it probably won't be enough and only to set up a rematch. I think Tony wears him down later and and takes the championship rounds convincingly.

Originally Posted by The Fightfan

I think this is a very winnable fight for Mosley. I am still one of the very few who thought Mosley beat Cotto and I still stand by that. I don't think Mosley will run from Tony but I do think he will stand up and try to counterpunch the hell out of him, but it probably won't be enough and only to set up a rematch. I think Tony wears him down later and and takes the championship rounds convincingly.

The beating Mosley will recieve is going to be worse than the beating he got from Vernon Forrest.

Originally Posted by The Fightfan

I think this is a very winnable fight for Mosley. I am still one of the very few who thought Mosley beat Cotto and I still stand by that. I don't think Mosley will run from Tony but I do think he will stand up and try to counterpunch the hell out of him, but it probably won't be enough and only to set up a rematch. I think Tony wears him down later and and takes the championship rounds convincingly.

Cotto beat him, but Cotto is much faster and a better boxer then Margarito as the first six rounds have shown, but Cotto has no footspeed, a major downfall against Margarito unless you are strong enough and busy enough to match his output.

Originally Posted by The Fightfan

I think this is a very winnable fight for Mosley. I am still one of the very few who thought Mosley beat Cotto and I still stand by that. I don't think Mosley will run from Tony but I do think he will stand up and try to counterpunch the hell out of him, but it probably won't be enough and only to set up a rematch. I think Tony wears him down later and and takes the championship rounds convincingly.

I thought on a RBR basis that Shane Mosley vs Miguel Cotto was a draw, but just by watching the fight without the scoring. It does seem to me Miguel Cotto does have the best of it.

I didn't see it even rbr even, I had Cotto winning the first half of the fight by maybe two rounds, if not more, then in the second half I saw him winning a few rounds as well, especially coming on strong at the end. It was certainly a close fight, but I was surprised by how often Cotto landed on Mosley especially with the jab. Even Oscar and Winky had a harder time landing their's jabs. I think its because as Emanuel said that Cotto throws you off with his slow movemetn and quick hands.

Originally Posted by Taeth

I didn't see it even rbr even, I had Cotto winning the first half of the fight by maybe two rounds, if not more, then in the second half I saw him winning a few rounds as well, especially coming on strong at the end. It was certainly a close fight, but I was surprised by how often Cotto landed on Mosley especially with the jab. Even Oscar and Winky had a harder time landing their's jabs. I think its because as Emanuel said that Cotto throws you off with his slow movemetn and quick hands.

I thought Shane Mosley earned a draw because of how aggressively, he fought in the last 3 rounds he took the fight to Miguel Cotto. And to me especially in the 12th round, i think Shane Mosley clearly won that round because he was the constant aggressor.

And Miguel Cotto was constantly on the back foot hardly throwing any punches. But like i said overall i think Miguel Cotto had the best of it, but based on Shane Mosley's effort in the championship rounds he earned a draw on my card.

I saw Mosley being effective moving forward in maybe two of the rounds ,the rest Cotto was countering him with very hard punches.