Despite the two wide scorecards, the fight was seen as being much closer and competitive. He had three children with Jin Mosley, whom he was married to from to His son Shane Mosley Jr. By the end of October, Mosley pulled out of the negotiations as he would not accept the rematch clause.
An official press conference took place at the end of August. The bout ended up being a highly disputed split draw, where many people thought that Mosley narrowly won the closely contested bout boxing analyst website Boxrec had it for Mosley. The judges scored the bout: Mora —, Mosley — and — It was good fight, a good decision. He was an accomplished amateur boxer as a teen and was the U.
Amateur Champion and World Junior Championships silver medalist. The fight was set to take place on May 18, Mosley won the fight via unanimous decision with all three judges scoring the bout Cano was able to win the first few rounds but Mosley took control of the later rounds and pounded Cano until the final bell.
With the win, Mosley won the vacant WBC International welterweight champion, picking up his first professional win since The first time since that Mosley would fight in his home state. During the first three rounds of the bout, the harder puncher appeared to be Mayorga, who landed right hands from long range. In recklessly lunging in with wild power shots of his own Mosley wound up falling into more clinches and getting caught with punches he should have avoided. Mosley settled down and found the distance in the fourth round and took the next three rounds by timing Mayorga with overhand rights that landed and occasionally following up with short hooks and single body shots.
Mosley continued with right hands in the seventh and eighth rounds. Mosley was able to land single power shots in the late rounds, but threw very few combinations.
At times Mayorga beat Mosley to the punch with lead right hands. With less than a minute left in the bout, put Mayorga down on his hands and knees. Mayorga got up on unsteady legs; Mosley stepped in with a short, lead left hook that put Mayorga flat on his back at the bell, resulting in the referee waving the bout off.
At the time of stoppage, two judges had Mosley ahead with scored of and , whilst the third judge had Mayorga ahead Had the fight gone to scorecards, Mosley would have won via unanimous decision due to the last round being a On August 14, Don King filed a lawsuit, which stated that Mayorga still had a promotional contract with him dating back to Mayorga made a return to boxing in Legal documents showed that Mayorga, upon his return in , signed a Memorandum of Understanding, confirming that his contract with King still stands.
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Despite this, Shane had very high hopes after compiling a — 12 amateur record. He turned professional with his father being his trainer. Mosley fought in near obscurity early into his professional career.
He only managed to get his big break when Cedric Kushner, who was a promoter, pitted him against Philip Holiday — the then International Boxing Federation lightweight champion. Mosley won this bout by decision; he overwhelmed his competition with amazing speed and power.
Seeking other new challenges, Shane moved up 2 levels to the welterweight class; he won twice before getting his first big time match against World Boxing champion Oscar De La Hoya. The fight took place on June 17th, Mosley managed to win this contest and this earned him his reputation as the greatest pound-for-pound fighter. Mosley suffered a pair of losses, but then claimed another victory over De la Hoya which redeemed him. However, this was soon diminished after back-to-back losses to Winky Wright.
Shane Mosley later fired his father as his trainer and hired a new one. Shane managed to overcome his string of losses by beating Fernando Vargas two times and dropping a weight class to topple Luis Collazo for the WBC welterweight title. Shane Mosley retired at the age of 40 with a record of 46 wins, where 39 were by knockout, 8 losses, 1 draw and 1 no contest.
After announcing his retirement, Mosely said he would spend more time training his son; Shane Jr.
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