Mosley Turns Back the Clock
Sunday February 11, 2007
At 35, Shane Mosley is ten years older than Luis Collazo, but you wouldn't have known it by watching the two men in the ring together. Mosley, in his return to welterweight, took control after a few close rounds and was just too quick and too busy for the speedy Collazo. Collazo landed several clean shots during the bout but they were few and far between. Mosley dominated the later rounds - dropping Collazo briefly late in the eleventh round - and earned a lopsided unanimous decision: 119-108, 118-109 and 118-109.
The win makes Mosley the mandatory challenger for the WBC belt of Floyd Mayweather Jr.. Mosley hopes that Pretty Boy returns to welterweight after his May 5 megafight with Oscar De La Hoya. If that fight fails to materialize, Mosley will have plenty of other options, including possible unification bouts with either Miguel Cotto, Antonio Margarito or Kermit Cintron.
On the undercard, former junior welterweight champ Vivian Harris and Juan Lazcano went at it for 12 back-and-forth rounds with Harris getting a close, unanimous decision: 115-112, 115-112 and 114-113. The win earned Harris a shot at WBC champ Junior Witter later this year.
Comments
119-108, 118-109 twice, Louie dropped? Does John Catalano or any other guy here find similarities in Collazo and Winky, do you still have a sneaky feeling about Louie being the uncrowned WBA welterweight Champ vs Hatton or you believe this was just a bad night for him? Collazo doesn’t belong to the same ring Shane boxes, now Mayweather must face him either at 147 or 154 lbs, whatever, whichever names he calls Ricky Hatton’s belly and I sincerely believe PBF will not be able to pull out that one, Mosley’s still to sweet to handle.
119-108, 118-109 twice, Louie dropped? Does John Catalano or any other guy here find similarities in Collazo and Winky, do you still have a sneaky feeling about Louie being the uncrowned WBA welterweight Champ vs Hatton or you believe this was just a bad night for him? Collazo doesn’t belong to the same ring Shane boxes, now Mayweather must face him either at 147 or 154 lbs, whatever, whichever names he calls Ricky Hatton’s belly and I sincerely believe PBF will not be able to pull out that one, Mosley’s still too sweet too handle.
119-108, 118-109 twice, Louie dropped? Does John Catalano or any other guy here find similarities in Collazo and Winky, do you still have a sneaky feeling about Louie being the uncrowned WBA welterweight Champ vs Hatton or you believe this was just a bad night for him? Collazo doesn’t belong to the same ring Shane boxes, now Mayweather must face him either at 147 or 154 lbs, whatever, whichever names he calls Ricky Hatton’s belly and I sincerely believe PBF will not be able to pull out that one, Mosley’s still too sweet to handle.
suga was sweet…he looked good against a guy that most was looking to upset his sweetness…shane maintained great hand speed even into the 11-12 rounds…his punch output was very impressive…yes callazo is the uncrowned champ vs. hatton but he also lost that uncrowned crown to sugar…via unaminous decision…but no way he beats floyd..compete yes beat no floyd is a much better boxer than callazo,maragito,cintron on any given night…he beats de la hoya and possible goes for shanes name on his hit list of who’s who….i see callazo getting a title shot again and winning against one of the 3 mentioned
Yes, I do agree now Collazo has a bright future cos he’s slick, fast and young, I don’t know how he would deal with another southpaw and with a bigger punch like Cintron but that would be interesting… I disagree completely with Floyd being a better boxer than Sugar Shane cos he doesn’t have those fluid combinations but I agree Floyd has better foot work and Shane needs to improve his jab to have a chance against him
If Collazo hadn’t been hurt…completely different fight. I was there. Yes, Mosley looked good for his age etc. but he was fighting a one handed fighter after round 2. A healthy Collazo gives him everything he can handle and maybe even more!
Junior, if you were there, consider Collazo coming in at 160 lbs… It’s hard to take a guy out of there weighting as middleweight. But Collazo had an excellent 2nd round and did catch Shane with that sharp left, the same thing cannot be said about the jab ( was that the hand he hurt?)… Cintron is much more exciting, he’s 6 feet tall and has power,lost once to Margarito and has an impressive kayo perc. I feel Mosley is a very fluid, natural gifted fighter, lightning fast and very strong, if he works his jab on Mayweather and beats him 2 the punch, no way Floyd wins that one… Vivian Harris was everything but Vicious too.
Has anyone noticed in the Mararito Cotto fight that Margarito never took his mouth piece out between rounds in thier championship fight.