Manny Pacquiao VS Shane Mosley

[Spicoli]

Just to clarify, this is a welterweight title fight at a lower catchweight

huh, well the just proves that even if PAC wins the "welterweight" title, he has no intention of keeping it. Unless maybe he fights a few lower tier fighters at 147.

Delusions of grandeur for PAC it sounds like.

Yeah,its getting pretty obnoxious.Frankly...Mosleys a dope if he drops below 147....Pac should have to make the weight to stake the claim.These name affairs are ever increasing.I do think it will be a nice fight,but Mosley should compromise nothing in his existing advantages.

[OumaFan]

Why does Pacquaio have to move up?

Mosley was the one who really got this ball rolling after all. He wants it.

You could just as easily say Mosley was picking on a smaller guy but that goes against the grain around here these days. I've got nothing but respect for Mosley but the criticism of Pac around here is hilarious. A year ago or so he was fighting at 130 ffs.

[Julius Rain]

why do these guys who claim to know boxing, moaning about the welterweight title.

The title can be up for grabs between the weights of 141 - 147. If the champion agree he'll fight at a catchweight between those pounds, then the title will be on the line.

Shane usually weigh ins right on the dot of 147, he himself believe a few pounds wouldn't be a problem. I think its 2 pounds less at 145 were they agreed on. If I remember correctly pac weighed in 142 for oscar, his only fight at 147 and shane has fought above welterweights. I would rather have the fight at 147 without catchweight cause I know some of these anti pac will discredit the win cause they dont understand the rules for boxing titles.

I think the catchweight is fair because pac hasn't settled in at any weight class above 130. he fought once at each of the three he came up to. Shane has been in with much bigger fighters then pac and shane has ko'ed those guys. Shane being Shane he knows that it would be fair to agree on a catchweight.

I think these guys just dont want pac at a shot of his 7th division title especially not the one shane is holding cuase that would be pacs 5th lineal title. Plus these guys have openly admitted misfortune wishes opon thee pacman, sad adults really

[Mr140]

Rain quick question i still dont get how he had a lineal title at 112 because the ring is the one to keep track of it and they dont have him there. Its like saying that Leonard was a lineal titlest at 168 becasue there none listed at the time enless you have some source i am missing or somthing.

[levi#1BoxingFan]

I see this fight going alot like Cotto vs Mosley accept more one sided. Cotto landed the crisper shots of the two and Pacquiao has quicker hands than Cotto. I dont see a knockout for either of them, but Pacquiao landing the cleaner and more volume of shots. If the little bit of weight loss doesn't effect Mosley for the worse than this will be a heck of a night! Like Freddie Roach said, when Pacquiao and Mosley step in the ring they come to fight, not just to win!

[JazMerkin]

Doesn't look like this fight is that certain to happen

Roach: 'Mosley not on my radar'

I think Roach doesn't represent himself well at the end when he trys to compare the Oscar of 2000-2002 with the one Pacquiao beat. Shame as having met Roach I genuinely like the guy.

[kingfrnk]

Doesn't look like this fight is that certain to happen

Roach: 'Mosley not on my radar'

I think Roach doesn't represent himself well at the end when he trys to compare the Oscar of 2000-2002 with the one Pacquiao beat. Shame as having met Roach I genuinely like the guy.

damn thats messed up. i bet anything that if Cotto wins next saturday Cotto will fight Pac if anything.

[Violent Demise]

Doesn't look like this fight is that certain to happen

Roach: 'Mosley not on my radar'

I think Roach doesn't represent himself well at the end when he trys to compare the Oscar of 2000-2002 with the one Pacquiao beat. Shame as having met Roach I genuinely like the guy.

Don't look that way. The biitch in Pac and Roach is coming out

[Galaxy]

Mosley!!!

[fan johnny]

Doesn't look like this fight is that certain to happen

Roach: 'Mosley not on my radar'

I think Roach doesn't represent himself well at the end when he trys to compare the Oscar of 2000-2002 with the one Pacquiao beat. Shame as having met Roach I genuinely like the guy.

Don't look that way. The biitch in Pac and Roach is coming out

That article is lazy Journalism hearsay and the author puts in his disclaimer at the start.

"The conversation wasn’t complicated, Roach said. It went something like this:"

That Mosley visit to the wild card was Mosley's first approach to Roach on his campaign to land a fight with Pacquiao.

[Deanrw]

I don't care what anyone says. From what I have seen of Mosley, he is old.

He looked good against Margarito because Margarito is there to be hit and easy to pull the trigger against. Mosley looked better than he really is in that fight. Take one step back to the mayorga fight and then you will see Mosley.

Manny beats him by a wide unanimous decision and it will only be a bit more competitive than the ODLH fight.

[XaduBoxer]

why do these guys who claim to know boxing, moaning about the welterweight title.

The title can be up for grabs between the weights of 141 - 147. If the champion agree he'll fight at a catchweight between those pounds, then the title will be on the line.

Shane usually weigh ins right on the dot of 147, he himself believe a few pounds wouldn't be a problem. I think its 2 pounds less at 145 were they agreed on. If I remember correctly pac weighed in 142 for oscar, his only fight at 147 and shane has fought above welterweights. I would rather have the fight at 147 without catchweight cause I know some of these anti pac will discredit the win cause they dont understand the rules for boxing titles.

I think the catchweight is fair because pac hasn't settled in at any weight class above 130. he fought once at each of the three he came up to. Shane has been in with much bigger fighters then pac and shane has ko'ed those guys. Shane being Shane he knows that it would be fair to agree on a catchweight.

I think these guys just dont want pac at a shot of his 7th division title especially not the one shane is holding cuase that would be pacs 5th lineal title. Plus these guys have openly admitted misfortune wishes opon thee pacman, sad adults really

Well said Julius...
.

[KKisser]

yeah, that would give the pachuggers something more to crow about and we certainly don't want to see that. lol

[hardcore_crash]

This is a very tricky fight and I could only hope that Mosley comes in shape and not loses to much muscle or water.
Those couple of punds could really hurt him, but he has Nazim and Hopkins in his corner.
He says he is always in shape, and constantly training, so he is not a part time fighter like De La Hoya.
Depending on how much Pacquiao moves and his pressure, or Mosley's, I am favoring Shane at this moment.
But I can't predict the future or the boxers' gameplans.

[brucelee]

Pacquaio simply said he's willing to fight Mosley. He also said that it's up to his promoter. So there is no assurance yet that this fight will happen. However, in case it does, this will be a very difficult fight for Pac but his speed and POWER will prevail on this.

People are saying that Mosley is sort of an idiot if he fights below 147 but they don't see it that PAcquaio would be a complete moron if he fights at 147.

Pac haters are here again claiming to be knowledgeable in boxing.

Generally speaking, a fighter that goes up in weight is clearly put at a disadvantage. What Pacquaio is doing is simply trying to make the game fair by fighting at a catchweight coz he is simply at a disadvantaged position. Remember guys, Pac was at 130 lbs last year and you're hoping that he goes up to 147 to be massacred there and you CALL yourself boxing fans? Let's be real boxing fans here and you will accept that Mosley and Pac fighting at a catchweight is but fair.

Ohhhh, you're now afraid that what happened to DLH may happen to Mosley coz most of you, haters, predicted that PAc will go down easily against DLH but you were proven deadly wrong. So you're claiming now that DLH was weight drained. HAve you forgotten that weeks before the fight, DLH was already weighing somewhere at 147. I don't see any real weight drained DLH there. What we saw was PAcquaio overwhelming de la hoya with his speed and POWER. Diaz admitted after the fight that PAc was too fast, HAtton didn't believe it so he went down easily. Now let me remind you again, Pac's arsenal is not only his speed. Never underestimate his POWER.

PLease..... as Oumafan had stated, let's stop the hating.You're all becoming like VD here.

Don't get me wrong but before I became a Pacquaio fan, I'm the biggest Mosley fan in real life. You can actually call me a Mosley nuthugger and I won't mind.