Shane Mosley of 2000 Vs Manny or Floyd?

[brucelee]

Here's what I see, people say that Shane went the distance with both Pacquiao and Floyd as some kind of credit. Here is the thing, when Shane fought Floyd, he could still pull the trigger and could still fire off and wasn't gunshy, Mayweather adapted his gameplan and shut down the offense Mosley was trying to do and closed all the avenues where Shane could be effective, but Mosley still kept trying but as he said after the fight, Mayweather didn't make the same mistake again. So Shane kept trying against Floyd, and showed he could still fire off shots when he saw them.

Against Pacquiao, Shane pretty much did nothing, he fired off his jab which would snap pac's head back but never followed it with anything, he started going to the body early but then quit at it. Anything Mosley did that worked he never tried to do again, seemed gunshy. Even during stretches that Pacquiao would be waiting on him, Shane didn't throw, he even caught Pacquiao off balance with a counter left hook but refused to follow it with anything. Shane was gunshy and the only time he really threw his right hand was to touch gloves with pacquiao at the end of rounds.

The Shane that fought Floyd and the Shane that fought Pacquiao are two completely different fighters. When Floyd waited on Shane, Shane threw and tried to make something happen, when Pacquiao did it, Shane, did nothing.

Shane wasn't gun shy with Floyd coz he knows the Pretty Boy is contented with winning by points unlike Pac who will knock him out given a chance. Shane hesitated with Pac coz he knows he will go down just as easy as he did in the 3rd round when Pac caught him.

Given Pac's superior strength and knocking power over Floyd, it was natural for Shane to be more defensive against Pac.

Floyd could hardly hurt Shane. Fact.
Shane went down in the third round against Pac. Fact.

Against Floyd, he has nothing to fear of being KOed.

Against Pac, had he fought bravely, Shane would have gone down before the 7th round.

I hope you see that point of view.

Back to the original question, the Mosley of 2000 ( who schooled De La hoya during that time) would have a better chance compared to Floyd against Pac.

[johnsebastianmiran]

At lightweight and 11 years younger, PAC would be swallowing punches and Floyd would have fewer moves to confuse Shane. In other words,"You can run but you can't hide Floyd."