Floyd Mayweather Jr. overcame a near knockdown in the second round Saturday night to beat Shane Mosley in their welterweight showdown. Mayweather won in rather lopsided fashion.
From ESPN.com:
“I wanted to give the fans what they wanted to see, a toe-to-toe battle,” Mayweather said. “It wasn’t the same style for me but I wanted to be aggressive and I knew I could do it.”
Boxing’s biggest box office draw remained undefeated in 41 fights, but not before giving his fans and his corner a scare when a right hand to the side of his head buckled his knees a minute into the second, and he had to grab Mosley to avoid going down. Mosley landed another right later in the round, but the rest of the night belonged to Mayweather.
If he didn’t please everyone, it was because he couldn’t knock out Mosley. But Mayweather won every minute of every round after the second and the normally defensive-minded fighter kept after Mosley until the final bell in a masterful performance that earned him every dollar of his guaranteed $22.5 million payday.
“I think we could have pressed the attack a lot earlier, and then we could have got the knockout,” Mayweather said.
Even Mayweather’s critics have to admit that he made Mosley look helpless outside of the near-knockout. He took over in the third round and the fight essentially wasn’t close from that point on.
Now let’s see Mayweather vs. Pacquiao.
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