Quote Originally Posted by greynotsoold View Post
The time frame you give makes the fight irrelevant. In my opinion, Mosley was finished shortly after he moved up to welterweight, even though, in years, he should have been at his peak. At lightweight, he enjoyed a substantial size advantage over his opponents, and he fought like a real fighter. He moved well, punched on his moves, was fearless.At welter he was much more cautious, especially after the Forrest fights. After that, if not for some time before, he was nothing special. Just a fast guy, took a good punch. His fight, the first one, with Oscar was horrible. They fight like two guys afraid to fight somebody that might fight back instead of like two guys wanting to be considered 'great'.
Trinidad was really something in his early run at WW, then he got left hook happy and became nothing special. just a guy with a good left hook. His fight with DLH was horrible; one guy was scared, the other guy didn't know.
So the window for this to be a worthwhile bout has to be when trinidad was rolling over the welterweights and Shane had just moved up. And I think trinidad beats him. He had a jab and a right hand then, and he hit harder and was better than Vernon Forrest.
Agreed. I answered before I read it. I was comparing them in a hypothetical 147 match-up.