Trinidad vs Mosley

[IamInuit]

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.

[Jerry Rice]

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.

Well first off Mosley did not make his WW debut until a week after Trinidad beat De La Hoya and decided he could no longer make weight and moved up, Mosley didn't make his JMW debut until 2003 when Tito was retired, so I am not sure when you guys expected them to fight ?

Had Shane won his warm up match the fight with Tito would have happened summer of 04.

[Spicoli]

Mosley wasn't that hot at 154. At a hypothetical "best" I say Tito was a more complete fighter and he had dealt with some speed in career, and got his shots off pretty damn quick himself.