Quote Originally Posted by boozeboxer
Man it sure is easy to say that Mosely was off form and on a loosing streak yet "decay never sleeps"......but somehow Mosely regained his form. Has it occurred to anyone that level of opposition had anything to do with it?


I agree.


When I saw the Mosley vs. Vargas fight (the first one) I thought that Mosley looked like a shell of his old self, and had that fight continued, Vargas (who was picking Mosley apart more and more as the fight went on in spite of his massively swollen eye) would have picked up the decision.

In the rematch, it was obvious that Vargas didn't give a shyt and was just doing it for the money. I'm pretty sure that somebody on here posted a link where Vargas actually said (before the fight) that he didn't really want the fight but was doing it for the money in order to launch his "Nawshis," clothing line.

As for Luis Collazo, I never thought too much of him except that he gave an extremely unprepared Ricky
Hatton a much tougher fight than was expected. In fact, I think I even predicted that Collazo wouldn't win a round in that fight on this very forum.

But I will admit that Mosley looked much better against Cotto than I had seen him in a long time and Cotto still won a hard fought victory.



Kinda makes you wonder if the result would have been the same if a 34 year old Mosley (the same age as Oscar when he fought PBF) had fought Cotto that night.