The Mexican Independence Day Bicentennial celebration will be a big boxing weekend as Golden Boy Promotions presents 200: CELEBRATE AND DOMINATE featuring Five-Time and Three-Division World Champion Sugar Shane Mosley against former World Champion Sergio "The Latin Snake" Mora in a junior middleweight showdown. Also appearing on the card will be rising Mexican phenom Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and top junior welterweight contender "Vicious" Victor Ortiz in separate bouts that will make up a great night of fistic action on Saturday, September 18 at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. proved why he is so special last Saturday, in sending Shane Mosley packing with a performance for the ages. Now, more than ever, it is time for he and Manny Pacquiao to fight. Please, don't make me beg.
Us boxing fans are pretty darn lucky nowadays. Old timers may shout about boxing not being the same, the politics getting in the way and fighters ducking each other more than they duck oncoming punches, but at this juncture in history we're also very fortunate. Two of the greatest fighters ever to lace them up. Fighting in the same era. At roughly the same age. Putting in serious work, at their absolute peak.
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Some of the most recognized boxing fans in the world are weighing in on the match-up between undefeated six-time world champion Floyd "Money" Mayweather and WBA Welterweight Super Champion Sugar Shane Mosley, who are set to meet in Mayweather vs. Mosley: Who R U Picking? on Saturday, May 1 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas in a mega-bout which will be produced and distributed live on HBO Pay-Per-View® beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
From real estate moguls to NFL Pro-Bowlers, NBA All-Stars to Hall of Fame fighters and trainers, we have their opinions on who they believe will emerge victorious this Saturday. Below please find the predictions of these prominent personalities as they lend their thoughts on this historic match-up.
FLOYD "MONEY" MAYWEATHER
"It's been a tremendous camp. Roger [Mayweather] has done a tremendous job getting me ready for a fight of this magnitude. I know what it takes, hard work and dedication, prayers and belief in a good team.
"I believe in loyalty. I am loyal to my team. I have been with the same team from beginning to the end.
"Be smart, be sharp and fight hard. May the best man win. I am pretty sure that Shane feels deep in his heart and deep in his soul he is going to win.
"It doesn't stop May 1. Mayweather Promtions is the past, present, future of sports and entertainment, period.
Q:
Last week when I asked you about remaining undefeated, you said that wasn't what was driving you. Let me ask you this. As far as the legacy of your career is concerned, is this fight about enhancing it or preserving it?
Mayweather
Every fight at this point is always about...it all depends on who the opponent is. At this point, it's about enhancing it. So like I said before, I think Shane's a solid welterweight. He's been around the sport for a long, long time and he's done some things in this sport. I've done a lot of things in this sport. I've done a lot of things that a lot of fighters weren't able to do in this sport and didn't do in this sport. So like I said before, I think with Shane Mosley, it's going to of course, enhance my legacy.
Q:You mentioned that Karl Dargan and Rock, that you're sparring with them. They've been a little bit inactive lately, but I was just curious of your impressions of them as they're both Naazimm's relatives obviously, son and nephew.
Mosley
This camp has been like a family and I'm happy to have all of them contributing. They have great backgrounds, and Naazim Richardson trains them. Karl Dargan is very fast, a little taller than Mayweather, but has very fast hands. I think that a lot of it is the reaction time that I'm dealing with when I work with Karl Dargan to emulate Mayweather. We try to figure out different ways and different strategies of attacking.
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