FLOYD MAYWEATHER SIGNS THE CONTRACT..............

[DG.]

Floyd signed! Remember where you heard.it first!

Will hit press.today!


Mayweather-Mosley is on
It’s official. Six-time world champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather made his upcoming fight with welterweight mega-star and five-time world champion Sugar Shane Mosley, official today when he signed the contract that pits the two fighters against each other on May 1 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in a mega-bout which will be televised live on HBO Pay-Per-View. “This one is definitely for the fans as I wasn’t going to waste anyone’s time with a meaningless tune-up bout and asked to fight Shane immediately,” said Mayweather. “I have said ever since I came back to the sport that I only wanted to fight the best. I think Shane is one of the best, but come May 1, he still won’t be great enough to beat me.”

“I have always wanted to fight Floyd and now it is finally coming true,” said Mosley, who signed his side of the deal last Friday in Las Vegas. “I am already in great shape and ready to show everyone on May 1 that I am stronger, faster and better than he is. I will have no problem beating him.”

In addition to the fight being one of the most competitive and talked about contests in each of the fighters’ careers, Mayweather and Mosley have agreed to Olympic-style drug testing for the fight.

“Floyd has been trying to make this fight for the last 10 years, so he is extremely excited about the opportunity to face Shane,” said Leonard Ellerbe, CEO, Mayweather Promotions. “He can’t wait to extend his undefeated record and perform at the highest level. More importantly, he is also happy to set the precedent for random blood testing in order to ensure fair and safe contests for all fighters.”

“When two champions of this caliber meet in the ring, you can expect nothing but excellence and that is what we are going to see on May 1,” said Richard Schaefer, CEO, Golden Boy Promotions. “Shane Mosley is one of the greatest fighters of this era and I commend him for not only agreeing to the fight against Mayweather, but also agreeing to participate in a testing process that can only help the integrity of the sport.”

“Mayweather-Mosley is a showdown of superstars that fans have been talking about for years”, said Mark Taffet of HBO Pay-Per-View. “It has all the elements of a pay-per-view mega-fight.”

A 1996 Olympic Bronze medalist for the United States, Floyd Mayweather (40-0, 25 KO’s) has since gone on to strike Gold in the professional ranks, winning six world titles in five weight classes to firmly establish himself as one of the most elite fighters of his era. With dominating wins over the likes of world champions Diego Corrales, Jose Luis Castillo, Arturo Gatti, Zab Judah, Oscar de la Hoya and Ricky Hatton, Mayweather was on a meteoric rise to hall of fame greatness when he announced his retirement from the ring in 2008. But he left the door open for a return if the right challenge presented itself and after 18 months of a much needed physical and emotional break from the ring, he returned to boxing on September 19, 2009 with a dominating and spectacular victory over future Hall of Famer Juan Manuel Marquez.

A future Hall of Famer with five world titles to his name, Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO’s) has ruled the lightweight, welterweight and junior middleweight divisions over his storied 16-year career and at 38 years old, the Pomona, Calif. native seems to be getting better and better as the years pass. Winner of seven of his last eight fights dating back to 2005, Mosley has defeated the likes of Fernando Vargas (twice), Luis Collazo and Ricardo Mayorga, but his most recent victory also was one of his most spectacular — a ninth round stoppage of Antonio Margarito in January 2009 to win the welterweight world title for the third time.

The 12-round welterweight battle is a highly competitive match-up that already has sports fans across the world buzzing to see two of the sport’s biggest names meet in the squared circle in the premier boxing match-up of 2010.

More information on Mayweather vs. Mosley, including ticket prices, HBO Pay- Per- View information and press tour dates and cities, will be announced shortly.

[jizzle]

I will remember where I heard it first....Five Live at 6am this morning...

[DG.]

I will remember where I heard it first....Five Live at 6am this morning...

[doctorboxing]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/8497475.stm

Mayweather has come out of this far better than Pacman.

He has got the biggest fight and got a former drug cheat in mosley to agree to olympic style testing which will hopefully lead to change in boxings lax testing procedures.

[hitman_hatton1]

he still ain't been given a free pass for that carry on with pac.

as good as mosley is he ain't pac.

mosley always looks good against come forward fighters.

hence the margo fight.

[martin_g91]

I like this fight alot.

To be fair to both Pac and FMJ they have both taken good opponents after they're bout fell through.

So long as they both come through, I'm sure the negotiations for Pacquiao Vs Mayweather will start up again straight away (maybe for a November date).

[doctorboxing]

he still ain't been given a free pass for that carry on with pac.

Its not a carry on, its what should happen in boxing. Of course, mayweather is not the man who should be implementing it but clearly the boxing authorities are failing the fans and the legit boxers by not carrying out adequate testing.

Could you imagine Usain Bolt saying he wouldn't agree to testing 30 days before the Olympics? We would all make our own conclusions from that. The boxing authorities should step up their game and enforce olympic style testing to stop drug cheats slipping through the net (which has more holes than Tiger Woods had last year)

[ApolloCreed]

Or if Bolt was trained by a man previously tainte by assocaition with a cheat and gave his reason as 'boo hoo, I don't like needles and I feel weak'...

[black panther]

he still ain't been given a free pass for that carry on with pac.

as good as mosley is he ain't pac.

mosley always looks good against come forward fighters.

hence the margo fight.

Agreed and as much as I'm a Mosley fan, Mayweather will probably box rings round him. Mosley's a power counter-puncher at his best: power-boxing as Jack Mosley likes to call it.

[DG.]

he still ain't been given a free pass for that carry on with pac.

as good as mosley is he ain't pac.

mosley always looks good against come forward fighters.

hence the margo fight.

Mosley would KO Pac - this is a toughter fight for PBF, imo.

[DG.]

Or if Bolt was trained by a man previously tainte by assocaition with a cheat and gave his reason as 'boo hoo, I don't like needles and I feel weak'...

[jamesmcdonnell]

I'm going to put some Money on Mosley, I've got a suspicion that Mayweather's going to come unstuck here.

[Rocky Balboa]

I'm going to put some Money on Mosley, I've got a suspicion that Mayweather's going to come unstuck here.

Well I'm going to put some Money on Money as I think he will be in the shape of his life as is always the case. I even fancy the TKO for Floyd! Only downside to that if he does score a stoppage is, maybe Pacquiao will think twice about wanting to face him?

Floyd will once again prove he is supreme & when he does, just what will the haters say then? I smell bullshit excues being thought of already! Lol

[alexpaterson]

Good fight im glad it's been made

[ALI]

I'm going to put some Money on Mosley, I've got a suspicion that Mayweather's going to come unstuck here.

Rather your money than mine.

I've been watching a lot of Mosley's recent fights this last week and i feel certain he's going to have a very hard time finding the target with Mayweather, on the flip side, i think Mayweather will be landing on Mosley without to much trouble. I'm sensing Mayweather may actually stand Mosley on his head here, styles make fights and Mayweathers i think is all wrong for Mosley.

The main concern i have with Mayweather is his work ethic, he left it very late against De La Hoya and left himself with a lot of ground to make up down the stretch. He cant make that same mistake against Mosley.

[alexpaterson]

I've been watching a lot of Mosley's recent fights this last week and i feel certain he's going to have a very hard time finding the target with Mayweather, on the flip side, i think Mayweather will be landing on Mosley without to much trouble. I'm sensing Mayweather may actually stand Mosley on his head here, styles make fights and Mayweathers i think is all wrong for Mosley.

The main concern i have with Mayweather is his work ethic, he left it very late against De La Hoya and left himself with a lot of ground to make up down the stretch. He cant make that same mistake against Mosley.

I agree Mayweather will win too slick imo

[jamesmcdonnell]

I'm going to put some Money on Mosley, I've got a suspicion that Mayweather's going to come unstuck here.

Rather your money than mine.

I've been watching a lot of Mosley's recent fights this last week and i feel certain he's going to have a very hard time finding the target with Mayweather, on the flip side, i think Mayweather will be landing on Mosley without to much trouble. I'm sensing Mayweather may actually stand Mosley on his head here, styles make fights and Mayweathers i think is all wrong for Mosley.

The main concern i have with Mayweather is his work ethic, he left it very late against De La Hoya and left himself with a lot of ground to make up down the stretch. He cant make that same mistake against Mosley.

I am not convinced that Floyds hands will stand up to throwing more shots than he has shown in his last four or five fights. I think that is the main reason for his low output these days.

Mosley, despite his age, threw a shed load against Margarito.

[stujones]

I thought Mayweather's workrate was fine vs Hatton.

[jamesmcdonnell]

I thought Mayweather's workrate was fine vs Hatton.

really, i didnt think it was very impressive in that fight.

[bennie]

Floyd “Money” Mayweather launches the second fight of his comeback against “Sugar” Shane Mosley in Las Vegas in May. Final arrangements are still to be ironed out but contracts are apparently signed and two of the fastest fighters in the game go head to head in a ‘true’ welterweight, all-American showdown.
Mayweather, who has spent much of his recent years picking off smaller ‘green card’ types, most lately Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico (floored and easily outpointed last September), did at least ‘shaft’ Freddie Roach and Richard Schaefer, the increasingly dislikeable Golden Boy team of Manny Pacquiao (and now our own Amir Khan), when negotiations for a superfight between Mayweather and Pacquiao stalled over Pacquio’s huge weight fluctuations which were quite rightly questioned by Mayweather who demanded pre-fight doping tests.
“Pac Man”, a former WBC flyweight champ, refused indignantly (along with Roach and Schaefer - what do they have to hide?), and makes do with Ghana’s dangerous but unknown Joshua Clottey in a real banana skin of a welterweight encounter in March, and a low-key one, not a smart move by Golden Boy Promotions; Mayweather enjoys the bigger fight and probably the easier one.
Mosley, who made his name as an amateur sparring the then frightening Julio Cesar Chavez in 1989, is not the force he was at 38. Between Chavez and now, Mosley has proved an exceptional world lightweight champion, bulked up to welterweight, been tarred with a steroids scandal, (‘took them unknowingly,’ he says), scored two big decisions over Oscar De La Hoya, and fought – and usually licked - everyone at welterweight and light-middleweight in the last decade.
He endured a couple of bogeymen in the late Vernon Forrest, who licked him twice (and also cost him a place in the 1992 Olympics) and Ronald “Winky” Wright, who also twice got the better of him - both gifted stylists in the Mayweather mould - but pulled himself together with two wins over “Ferocious” Fernado Vargas and those ‘biggies’ over De La Hoya, along with useful wins over the likes of Luis Collazo and Ricardo Mayorga.
Miguel Cotto closely outcored him.
Shane really shook up the world when he hammered Mexican iron man Antonio Margarito in nine stunningly one-sided rounds in Los Angeles in his last fight a year ago, a huge win from which he emerged with even greater credit when it was discovered that Margarito, who had just pounded Cotto in 11 brutal rounds, had not been on the level with his hand-bandaging (and was later banned in the US for just a single year, while Luis Resto contiues to be vilified). However, Margarito got busted before the Mosley fight and you wonder what effect it had on his perfomance. He just wasn’t there in the ring.
As for the unbeaten Mayweather, 40-0 (25), he naturally lost his pound-for-pound No. 1 status to Filipino Pacquiao when he retired in December 2007, after an easy win over Britain’s Ricky Hatton, and will see this as a chance to secure the magical if mythical spot again at still only 32. “Pretty Boy” Floyd retains his slick, sharp, accurate, brilliant-boxing skills, despite just the Marquez fight to show for the last two years (Marquez is no pushover as Khan might find out when they meet in Las Vegas in the same month). Mosley enjoys the same assets and probably the edge in strength and one-punch power, but those losses on his record, those years he has been boxing, make this an uphill task for the happy-go-lucky LA man, trained by his father Jack.
Mayweather has no weaknesses.

[jamesmcdonnell]

you really think his hands arent a weakness?

[Hagler2002]

I thought Mayweather's workrate was fine vs Hatton.

really, i didnt think it was very impressive in that fight.

It was even worse against Marquez.

Floyd got a split against a shot DLH, you have to feel Mosley has a bit more left than Oscar did, so I also fancy this to be a bit closer than many are predicting and quietly rate Mosley's chances.

Win, lose or draw look through Mayweather's record to date and Mosley will be the best name on it.

[Phenomenal-Nutrition]

Mayweather tends to take away his opponents workrate with his movement and countering. May will pick Shane apart at range. Mosley is going to have to drag FM into a fight, chase him and throw combinations at mid range and try to hurt him to the body. I cant see him doing it, his legs arent quick enough and Mayweather will read everything Shanes doing and outbox him

[Mooresy]

I,ve got a feeling Mosley's gonna box out of his skin, fight at a high pace, push floyd around a bit, and although Mayweathers rediculously 'cute' and will have loads of success with sneaky counters, he's gonna have trouble keeping Mosley at bay ALL the time. I think Mosley's goona take a close decision.

[stujones]

I don't think Oscar was shot against Mayweather - he was just coming off one his best wins of his career.... similar to Mosley. Mosley two fights ago was being called shot. I would say Oscar was as fresh, if not fresher when he fought Mayweather than Mosley mark 2010.

However, it is still a damn good fight, against a geniune Welter, ranked either #1 or #2 in the devision.

I still think Oscar at 154 a few years ago, is a more difficult fight for Mayweather than Mosley in 2010.... its still a fantastic fight though, and Mayweather deserves some credit for taking this option - much better than Clottey.