In the year 2000 a prime motivated Oscar De la Hoya took on and lost too ShaneMosely in what at the time was regarded as fight of the year !!
It was a Classic Oscar took early charge before Sugar Shane changed tactics ,rallied and put in a massive 4 last rounds to get a very much deserved decision !
It was a great performance by both men in their prime !!! Sugar Shane showed Guts ,power ,variety and ability to adapt when faced with his greatest foe to date !
This was only his 3rd fight at Welter after Dominating the Lightweight scene for many years !!!
At the time SSM was vaunted as the world most exciting Pound for pound fighter a fighter of substance and gravitas!!!
7 Years later Floyd The Fraud Mayweather took on a well past it Golden Boy and was on the rack early but unlike SSM didn't try to initiate any attacks or use his supposedly greater skills and hand and foot speed ........no he waited for Oscar to tire which he did in round 5 and 6 after chasing Mayweather , the same Mayweather whose degenerate behaviour has sullied boxing ,whose trash talk and crassness repelled many a hardcore and Casual fan !
This Mayweather promised '' confrontation '' and a 'massacre' had on numerous occasions called Oscar a 'bitch'. Instead he employed his usual Shoot and Scoot tactics . All this from a man who has compared himself with Sugar Ray Lenard .
Was his performance reminiscent of Sugar Ray chasing down Benitez and or coming from behind to stop a prime Thomas Hearns .....?
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He also announced his retirement and proclaimed he had nothing left too prove .
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Nothing left to prove ? Nothing left to prove against somebody not in their prime unbeaten who can fight for 12 rounds consistently put you under pressure, who can cut of the ring more successfully than Oscar who was doing just that before his old legs caught up with him .
Mayweather has made a career out of defining himself in bullshit non events against Oscar he did nothing new except get a decision against a well past it hall of famer .
What if SSM had called it a day after his Oscar win ?
The Welters have the strongest division in Boxing, nothing left too prove ?
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