Review: Mayweather vs Mosley, Mayweather wins but almost KO'd in 2nd round

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LA Times Sports blog had a nice recap over the Mayweather vs. Mosley fight.  Clearly, the younger Mayweather dominated Mosley in most of the rounds, but there was a couple of scary moments that the popular online sports blog rightly identified.  Specifically, it noted:

Mosley ducks a wild left, then lands a right. Mayweather clinches but Mosley breaks away and chases after him. Mayweather appears flustered. Mosley's speed is stunning him. The best Mayweather can do is clinch. Mosley is all over him, in the center of the ring, on the ropes. Mayweather's only answer is to clinch, trying to slow the aggressive Mosley's charge. The crowd is on its feet chanting "Mosley! Mosley! Mosley!"


Mosley's speed clearly has Mayweather worried and you have to wonder what an even faster fighter like Manny Pacquiao would do to Mayweather.

The truth is, Mayweather (age 33) was able to recover and rebound, but he clearly was in danger of losing it in the 2nd and 3rd rounds.  It seems like the only reason he survived was Mosley was running out of steam (the guy was almost 39).

The real question in everyone's mind is: what would happen if he faced toe to toe with the younger, faster Manny Pacquiao that can be as deadly as Mosley throughout all the rounds?

My first time in Cowboys' Stadium, Pacquiao vs. Clottey fight

Pacquiao corners Clottey


High-def LCD screens
It was a historic fight ... or so I thought.

I was going to see Pacquiao face one of the biggest challenges of his life. A former IBF Welterweight Champion, Clottey's renown defensive and stamina skills was going to finally challenge Pacquiao ... or so I thought.

We came in fairly early into the stadium, around 7:30pm. But I didn't realize how massive this stadium was. It's so huge, that the event staff won't let you in from any entrance -- you have to go through a specific designated gate! (Extremely inconvenient when you have young kids with you.)

In the Stadium

Finding seats in the stadium was simple enough once you enter into the 'designated' gate area. As I sat down in my seat, I'm shocked to see huge high definition screens hanging on the ceilings. Wow. Amazing.

Now there were already fights going on. We came in about the time when they started televising the bouts.

We all waited patiently for the undercards to be finished, for all of the other bouts to be done to see the 'historic' fight. Then the fighters came out, both of them looked extremely confident. Clottey was even dancing around as he entered. This was going to be a great fight ... so I thought.

First round, Clottey seemed to have been covering up and Pacquiao just kept on circling like a buzzard... Okay, maybe Clottey was simply measuring Pacquiao's strenght and was going to open up and actually box in the second round. Nope. Didn't happen. Then the third third round...then the fourth... Is Clottey ever going to box?!?! A challenger can't simply turtle the whole night! A challenger has to gain the upper hand and win rounds!

He continued to show his elite turtling skills throughout the entire bout. Round after round. In the end, it was clear, Pacquiao threw more punches, and outclassed Clottey in almost every round. Where in the world was Clottey? This was a title fight, a world championship and he was the challenger. Why didn't he challenge?

That fight was sadly more of an exhibition, and I truly believed Clottey could have done a better job. In the end, what I thought was a historic fight in terms of clashes between two titans, I saw one of the worst performances in boxing history. So yeah, I guess it was historic.

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