Mayweather v Mosley

[JazMerkin]

AGreed man....... Was very dissapointed in Shane though, although he kinda performed similar to Clottey against Pac, in fear of being hit everytime he threw or opened up. I have a feeling Floyd hit harder than he expected. Floyds countering was top notch, catching Mosley nearly every time clean and crisp.

I don't think that's fair man. Shane tried to make a go of it, but he just couldn't find a way through. He was trying to find the openings and they just weren't there and he can't just wade in taking punches. Clottey balled up and didn't even try to make a fight of it. Shane showed he was a warrior, he took punches that most other men couldn't have, but he was just in against a better guy.

Fair play, maybe a little extreme a comparison, Shane took some great shots but he was so wary of being hit, full stop.... I still think its weird also that he just didn't let any leather fly atall barring a few shots in round two and very very little for the rest of the fight. He didn't even seem that keen to have a decent pop at finishing floyd off in the 2nd, or from what I remember. I'd like to watch it again. Never seen Mosley that spent before and unwilling to let his hands go.

Shane is a guy who looks for the openings. He found some in Round 2, but they were never really there again, certainly not for his power shots. I also think Floyd got in a clean punch to his nose at the end of that 2nd and I just wonder with the recent operation to his septum whether he fucked something up. One thing I would say is that Shane has often had that 'I'm knackered' look early in fights before (see Cotto, Mayorga and Oscar II), but has usually come on very strong late. I think the difference this time was that Floyd beat the fight out of him.

As for your bolded point, almost EVERY fighter is. Like Nazim and Roger said in the build-up to a question about Floyd 'not liking to get hit', have you ever met anybody who does? The sharpness of Floyd's punches I think has something on it, it made possibly the two toughest warriors of the past decade, Diego Corrales & Arturo Gatti, look like they really didn't want to be in there. I have a feeling Shane will be able to come back from this and look great. We're saying now all the same things we said after he fought Mayorga & Vargas.