Actually what Mosley did and what Mayweather did are two VERY different things.
There's very different things here in the situations. Which I shall explain to you.
What Shane is doing now which is the same thing I've been saying he is doing, is looking for one final payday to go off into the sunset on.
Mayweather does have a claim to that because he called Shane out when they WERE in their primes. But Mosley pulled the same game that people accused Mayweather of not saying he was a draw. He called Mosley out again around the time Mosley beat Vargas and Mosley didn't take it. And now that he is nearing the end of his career he wants to fight Mayweather?
I said that Mosley was looking at one last payday against Mayweather. Then people said "Oh he wants to fight everyone, it's proven cause he fights Berto and is giving him a chance" But you neglect that Mosley said that if a fight with Mayweather could be made he WOULDN'T fight Berto. Funny how people forget that. Mosley is nearing the end of his career and he is looking for one LAST HUGE payday to go off into the sunset on and retire. And that name right now is Mayweather or Pacquiao. So Mayweather is right when he says Mosley is going to make a claim off of a name, which is true, but heck even Hopkins is doing that now, fighters do that at the end of their career for a final payday Mosley isn't the first and he won't be the last. But the thing people ignore is that Mayweather IS right when he says it. Mosley had ample opportunities to fight Floyd when he was in a prime or close to it, but he chose not to, and only chased Floyd when he neared the end of his career and wanted a final payday win or lose that doesn't detriment his career because it ain't gonna last much longer instead of in his prime where a loss to Mayweather would have.
Now you CAN NOT call what Floyd did in those post fight interviews as the same thing Mosley did. Floyd has called out these guys when they WERE in their primes. And before you say that he wanted Tszyu, gatti, DLH, Mosley near the end of their careers, he'd been calling out Mosley since he first beat Hernandez, and talked about wanting to fight the winner of Casamayor vs Freitas, or Prince Naseem after he beat Corrales. And he had been talking about fighting Tszyu since he beat Jesus Chavez. Neither of those fighters were shot at the time he called them out now were they? That's calling fighters out. he called those fighters out at a time when they were primed, and at a time where IF they had beaten him it could have derailed his boxing career. He didn't wait until the twilight of his career to finally call out someone that isn't gonna derail his career win or lose cause he can retire with a big payday. He called those guys out BEFORE he was at that point in his career and that is NOT the same as what Mosley did with Floyd. Whether you want to try to single it as not your opinion of calling someone out it is what it is. And Mayweather even said at the Marquez presser "Go back and watch the Henry Bruseles interview or even the genaro Hernandez interview when I became 130 pound champion we tried to make the fight happen and he didn't want it. But now that he's got 5 losses and nearing the end of his career, now he wants to fight me." And thats basically what I'm saying here and it's true. No matter how you want to look at it. Mosley never wanted Floyd Mayweather until the end of his career, point blank.
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