Beating Mosley in such a fashion that he was reduced back to his amateur days is not something to be cherished and enshrined in the books.
Without any cloud of doubt, Mayweather whipping Mosley all the way to winning credibly their much-talked about welterweight match-up last Saturday night was one of the most beautiful boxing clinics ever executed in recent times. With the elusiveness of a fish and quickness of a bird, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was able to put on a show on how speed, precision and relative youth matter in the unkind art of pugilism. Mosley, appearing washed-up former great fighter hardly had any significant answer to the punching party being thrown at him by Mayweather. Nevertheless in round 2 the native of Pomona, California was able to make a case of himself by sending Mayweather to a very shaky moment, courtesy of two hard rights that landed on the face of the five-time world champion; after which, the most popular resident of Grand Rapids, Michigan, sailed smoothly across flimsy resisting storms produced by the once mighty Mosley.
On grounds of that dominating performance, many observers became ready to uninstall Manny Pacquiao from his regal perch as the pound-for-pound king with Mayweather replacing him. Even the great Oscar dela Hoya was with little qualms elevated Mayweather to the pedestal of boxing by declaring the latter as the greatest fighter of all time. Putting into consideration dela Hoya?s business interest, his rather strange statement can be taken with very little authority, but some scribes out there in a rather more rational affirmation had Mayweather and Pacquiao interchanged position in the pound for pound ranking, arguing that Filipino?s ascension to the throne was attributed to his previous conquests not by beating down in an actual fight his predecessor which was Mayweather himself. Mayweather abdicated when he temporarily took a brief hiatus, but even without him taking temporary retirement, Pacquiao would have still snatched the throne without throwing a single punch against the American. In line with the same argument, they argued Mayweather?s one sided beatdown of Mosley was enough to reinstall Mayweather on boxing?s royal seat.
But beating Mosley in such a fashion that he was reduced back to his amateur days is not something to be cherished and enshrined in the books for the reason that in an apparently undeniable truth, the Mosley whipped by Mayweather last Saturday night was simply the shadow of his former self. At 38, Mosley?s weaponry is apparently gone. Had Mayweather hammered the Mosley who whipped the primed dela Hoya, no question then, and Mayweather would have earned a very strong reclaim to the throne.
On one hand, Pacquiao?s incredible dominance over Oscar dela Hoya, Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton and just recently over Joshua Clottey is simply far greater than Mayweather?s performance against his most recent foes, Juan Manuel Marquez and Sugar ?Shane? Mosley. Indeed Marquez was at number two in the pound-for ?pound roster when he was beaten by Mayweather, but the former was a bloated regular lightweight who despite it was treated unprofessionally when Mayweather came 2 pounds over the catchweight of 145.
Truth be told, with the current people inhabiting the welterweight neighborhood, it appears Mayweather would still end up second to Pacquiao even if the former, one by one, beat all other noise ? making inhabitants in the division. So as clear as the waters of Patagonia in South America, Mayweather had to present himself with the character of what a true warrior really is ? should stop making out of himself a separate boxing commission ? by climbing the ring and fight Pacquiao mano a mano if he and his doting advocates badly desire to topple down the Filipino boxing sensation from being legally recognized as the best across the world in our times.
