Mayweather vs Ortiz Live Stream

2011-08-18T05:33:00.000-07:00

Mayweather vs Ortiz Live Stream. Watch for the most exciting fight of Mayweather vs Ortiz live this coming September 17, 2011. Free yourself and watch Mayweather vs Ortiz Live Stream. So be there and watch the most exciting fight of the 2 boxing superstars.

Shane Mosley vs Floyd Mayweather Jr Live Stream

2010-04-12T00:38:00.000-07:00

Shane Mosley vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr Live Stream. Witness the exciting fight of the 2 boxing stars this May 1, 2010 at MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada. They will fight for the WBA Welterweight Championship.

Watch Mayweather and Mosley get confrontational during NYC presser

2010-03-23T11:34:00.000-07:00

The Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey fight is closing near, but the upcoming May 1st match up between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Sugar Shane Mosley has received more media attention in one day than the Pacquiao-Clottey fight has in the past couple of weeks.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is back to his old ways, we saw a passive and more respectful Money Mayweather during his HBO 24/7 build up for the Mayweather vs. Marquez fight, with the only highlight of that series being Juan Manuel Marquez drinking his own Urine.

Today, Monday, March 2, 2010, was the official kick off press conference announcing the Mayweather vs. Mosley fight in New York. Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Mosley got into a shoving match during the face to face introduction at the beginning of the press con. The two fighters exchanged words and Mayweather was doing his best to get into Mosley’s head.

Mosley agreed to take the Olympic randomized blood and urine testing that Manny Pacquiao refused to submit to against Mayweather Jr.

Although, HBO didn’t do a 24/7 for the Pacquiao vs. Clottey bout, they will have a countdown show titled “Road to Dallas” that will premiere on Saturday March 6, right after HBO World Championship Boxing ” Devon Alexander vs. Juan Urango” 140 pound title unification bout.

HBO 24/7: Mayweather-Mosley will premiere on April 10, 2010.

Source: nowboxing.com

Mayweather Jr. vs. Mosley Coming Up? Don’t Bet On It!

2010-03-23T11:31:00.000-07:00

By Eric Thomas:
After Shane Mosley pulled off a huge upset by stopping WBA welterweight champion Antonio Margarito in the 9th round on Saturday night, it’s suddenly re-energized Mosley’s career and brought him some much needed popularity that has been missing from his career for the past six years or so since he was first defeated by Vernon Forrest. The natural assumption is to want to pair him up with the now retired Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a mega bout that would make both fighters millions of dollars.

However, I don’t see it happening. It’s not that it wouldn’t be a great fight that the boxing public would love to see, it’s that Mayweather seems content in his retirement based on his recent interviews where he describes himself as an entrepreneur.

He the last thing he seemed to want was to step foot back in the ring for some serious training against a good fighter like Mosley. I do see him coming back eventually, but only after he’s depleted much more of his money and is in need of cash. I doubt he would want to come back for a fight against Mosley, though.

Mosley pulled off a good win in defeating Margarito, there’s no doubt about it, but no one is mistaking Mosley for being the number #1 pound for pound fighter in all of boxing. That title still rests with Manny Pacquiao, who earned it the hard way by beating great fighters like Oscar De La Hoya and Juan Manuel Marquez. Mayweather is the type of fighter that needs big goals to get him motivated and it’s highly unlikely that a fight against Mosley, now 37, would be enough to get him to want to step back in the ring.

The reason being, not only is Mosley getting up there in age at 37, but he’s also been beaten five times – twice by Vernon Forrest and Winky Wright and once by Cotto – and it’s probably not something that would motivate Mayweather.

Even if he did fight and beat Mosley, Mayweather wouldn’t get much credit for having done so due to the advanced age of Mosley and the fact that he’s been beaten five times already by fighters considered below the ability of Mayweather. Mosley may not have proven as much as people think he did in beating Margarito, because the blue print was already made by Cotto in how not to fight Margarito a fight earlier, and all Mosley had to do was fight in the opposite way.

Besides that, Margarito was coming off a brutally hard fight in his fight with Cotto, whereas Mosley had had much less problems in his fight with Ricardo Mayorga. I think people will talk a lot about Mayweather and Mosley fighting, but I don’t give it even a remote chance of happening. If Mayweather does come back, it’s going to be to fight either Ricky Hatton or Pacquiao and not Mosley.

It would be a great fight, but it wouldn’t have enough of a draw probably to break Mayweather out of his year-long inertia.

Source: boxingnews24.com

Selling the Mayweather vs. Mosley Fight

2010-03-23T11:29:00.000-07:00

The Floyd Mayweather vs. Shane Mosley May 1 fight in Las Vegas is "historic" according to the hype. That was made clear at the fight's press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday when various promoters likened it to Ali vs. Foreman or one of numerous Sugar Ray Leonard classics.

And they said it with a straight face. Among those spouting the hyperbole was the president of Golden Boy Promotions, the home of Sugar Shane Mosley and a former fighter himself. You might know him, Oscar De La Hoya? He lost to both of the contestants in this mega-fight and now promotes one and has an interest in the other if and when he fights Manny Pacquiao.

As if that weren't enough, De La Hoya and his fellow exec at Golden Boy, Richard Schaefer told the assembled crowd (the presser was open to the public) that this kind of fight only comes along once in a generation. But it wasn't over yet, not even close.

De La Hoya announced that

"You have the two best fighters on the planet today fighting on May 1."

That's where the cringing started and the crowd didn't react as I'm sure he had hoped. No one booed or threw things but there was no particularly positive reaction either. Among the assembled media we looked at each other and just rolled our eyes.

The elephant in the room was the name that was never spoken: Manny Pacquiao. Even Floyd Mayweather must have felt obliged to make some reference to why he was fighting Mosley in Vegas rather than Pacquiao in Dallas next weekend.

Mayweather is a crusader now. He's fighting for truth, justice and clean boxing. He gratuitously threw out the following,

I'm trying to clean up my sport", Floyd said. "That is why we are both (he and Mosley) taking random urine and blood tests.

The stated goal of the promotion companies is to sell three million pay-per-views for this fight. That would blow away anything numbers Pacquiao has pulled in for his bouts and surely will be used in any new negotiations between the Mayweather and Manny camps. Maybe they are thinking of trading the demand for blood testing for a larger share of the gross revenue rather than the 50/50 split.

To accomplish the PPV goal the hype and talking points were added to the Procter & Gamble-like marketing plan outlined by Schaefer. Pay-per-view discounts are available with the purchase of six and twelve-packs of Tecate beer and De Walt power tools sold at Home Depot. They've already got a soap opera up and running so why not use consumer products to sell it. Hey, it's historic, right?

Source: huffingtonpost.com