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From Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Broadcast starts at 7p PST/10p EST.

Main Event:

Welterweights - Antonio Margarito(37-5, 27 KO's) vs Shane Mosley(45-5, 38 KO's), 12, for Margarito's WBA welterweight title

Weigh-in: Margarito 145.8, Mosley 147

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Shane's beating the cheater's ass right now...it's over.

wow, I figure Mosley had a chance on points but not stoppage

Wow...big upset. And that's an understatement.

My god, that was just brutal.

Never underestimate the speed of a geezer. This fight reeks of Pavlik/Hopkins.

i like to find out about the hand wrap

Wow...

It was an epic fight.... largest crowd ever at Staples. Mosley got the KO in the 9th. It was unbelievable.

I heart Mosley... The Black Mexican with blue eyes...

He broke Margarito's Granite Chin.

That was just a good old fashion butt whooping. Can't believe Mosley made such easy work of Margarito considering how he was the underdog.

It will be interesting to see what comes about regarding the plaster business.

How about his Nazim Richardson? First Hopkins, now Mosley. I bet guys like Tarver, Taylor, de la Hoya, and Morales might want to call him up.

This loss really hurts Margarito. They found a substance in his wraps before the fight that hardens his punches and to lose this fight could put the media all over him for a while.

On the other hand, this fight lifts a good amount of pressure off Mosley with the BALCO investigation.

Great performance by Mosley.

1st time Margarito has been stopped.

Man, how could they not have ended it after 8?

Unbelievable.

Since 1994:
1. Floyd Mayweather
2. Shane Mosley
3. Roy Jones Jr
4. Bernard Hopkins
5. James Toney

PBF comes back for Mosley.

(now this depends on the results of the wrap) I re-watch the fight again yesterday and although margarito was getting beated, his eye tells me he could have gone on. I wonder if mentally he gave up since he knew he could not hurt Shane. He lost his clutch.

cowboyronnie wrote:Man, how could they not have ended it after 8?

Unbelievable.

Since 1994:
1. Floyd Mayweather
2. Shane Mosley
3. Roy Jones Jr
4. Bernard Hopkins
5. James Toney

PBF comes back for Mosley.

I would put Jones up at top given what he accomplished by going all the way up to heavyweight and winning a title.

Jones
Mayweather
Mosley
Hopkins
Manny.

I don't know but it is just me but it seems like Mayweather's accomplishments don't look all the great compared to his peers.

I mean Mayweather's best win is Corales, but you compare to Shane wins vs Margarito/Oscar, Jones wins vs Ruiz/Toney, Hopkins wins vs Tarver/Pavlik, Manny wins vs Oscar/Marquez/Morales.

Having no losses, moving up from - what - 126??? Just looking glorious at all times. PBF is the best, IMO.

It's the length of Mosley's success (even with the occasional pitfall) that >>>s RJJ, because of his post-Johnson career. Mosley cleaned out the LW division and then fought well above his natural weight with a long period of success at 147 (or above).

cowboyronnie wrote:Having no losses, moving up from - what - 126??? Just looking glorious at all times. PBF is the best, IMO.

It's the length of Mosley's success (even with the occasional pitfall) that >>>s RJJ, because of his post-Johnson career. Mosley cleaned out the LW division and then fought well above his natural weight with a long period of success at 147 (or above).

I understand that but you can't tell me that his win vs Corales has the same zeal compared to the other fighters that I mentioned.

Mosley was beastly at LW by the way. I would say he was just a hair below Duran at LW.

Good fight to watch. Knowing Margarito's chin and how he starts slow, you kind of kept waiting for him to pick it up. Then he started getting hammered.

Whoever posted that Margarito could have gone on, did you see the end of the 8th. Couldn't walk straight, barely got up to end the round and then came out for the ninth with no legs, not even landing a punch basically while Shane just teed off.

PBF was impressive but there are fighter(s) I would put ahead of him for the last 15 years. Not enough marquee fights and you never really got to see fight from behind or in more of a brawl - at least that I remember. Personally, I give fighters a notch up for not looking glorious every once in a while but showing the resiliency to win. Nobody he beat stands out as doing much on his own. But that is my personal take and I did not follow PBF as closely as others so I could be wrong.

Yeah, PBF's opponents are lacking. IDK what to say. I think - if he had the hunger to fight the best = he would beat anyone but maybe Pacqiao in his weight classes.

Pacman's someone I totally forgot. He's contending for those top spots, I think.

The point is just how studly Mosley's been. He deserves to be recognized aside RJJ and PBF at this point - there's now three that stand apart from this generation. Like Rasho mentioned, his LW reign was awesome. Vicious KOs of nearly everyone. To then move up well beyond that, to a class where he's pretty muscle-bound, and have a HOF-worthy career at that weight itself? He got the IBF LW belt in 1997, in 2009 he's got the WBA WW belt. He's amazing.