How highly do you rate Sugar Shane at his prime??

**TICH** · 04-18-2006 01:13 AM

thanks a lot jonesjr

if anyone has more links to his fights it will be great.

**JonesJrMayweather** · 04-18-2006 01:18 AM

Originally Posted by TICH

thanks a lot jonesjr

if anyone has more links to his fights it will be great.

here's his fight with golden johnson also for the title at lightweight great body shots too...

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DOSY3BRD

i can't seem to get my de la hoya fight to upload, but i'll keep trying....

**Taeth** · 04-18-2006 04:52 AM

I think he's overrated in terms of skill... He threw combinations well, and was extremely athletic(probably the closest to Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. we've seen), but he didn't have the relaxness in the ring or the ring savy in seemed to necessary for him to be considered great. He had a hard time with Vernon Forrest who IMO he should have beaten rather easily, but he couldn't adapt as the very best fighters could (Whitaker, Ali, PBF, Holyfield, Leonard).

**Purist** · 04-18-2006 05:05 AM

From what I heard he was drained when he fought Holiday becauseh e had to lose a lot of weight. And holiday went the distance, he was impressive in every other lightweight fight.

**TICH** · 04-18-2006 06:34 AM

cheers, jonesjr i appreciate it.

**El Gamo** · 04-18-2006 10:44 AM

Starr,or anyone else,you see Round 4 I think of the Holiday fight,Mosley throws one of the best cobos I have ever seen in my life,about 8-9 hits,fast powerful,head and body and the commentator says what can you do about that! It was amazing,I keep rewinding it to that to see it over and over and yep,Holiday was no bum,I mean in the fight before that he threw like 150 plus punches in the last 2 rounds of the fight against someone who thought he could ko Mosley,I forget the name!

**mokele** · 04-18-2006 11:23 AM

Mosley has something in common with Sugar Ray Leonard that I just thought of. In the early part of Mosley's career he used great speed both with his hands and on his feet, and rarely fought on the inside, often preferring to clinch or turn an opponent and get back to outside boxing. Leonard was quite similar in his early years although he was a bit bigger. As Leonard got older and slowed down he gradually began to fight more on the inside, and threw the best body shots that I ever saw him use in his loss to Terry Norris. In Leonard's case, it was rather a shame that he only began to really set down on his punches when he was over the hill, but in Mosley's case he seems to be still in his prime. Mosley surprised me a lot by how he fought De La Hoya, moving forward and forcing the fight on both occasions. This was a total change from his earlier years. I missed his fight with Fernando Vargas but I'm guessing that he stood his ground quite a bit and didn't do a lot of holding.

Anyway, I don't think that Mosley is past his prime quite yet. His losses to Forrest were more a case of a limitation being exposed rather than being over the hill. Mosley just didn't match up well with a taller outside boxer with a big right hand.