Antonio Margarito Vs Mosley Odds
Shane Mosley will be taking on Antonio Margarito for the WBA Welterweight title on
January 24th, 2009. The fight, originally scheduled for the Mandalay Bay, will now take place
at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
"Sugar" Shane Mosley has professional record of 45-5-1, while Antonio Margarito
currently possesses a record of 37-5-1. Margarito recently defeated Miguel Cotto in July to
capture the WBA welterweight title, in what was undoubtedly one of the fights of the year.
Margarito, ahead on two judge's scorecards, won via TKO in the 11th round to capture the title.
Unfortunately for Shane, no welterweight in the world as it currently exists is going to trade punches
with Margarito for very long and survive to see his hand raised at the end of the night.
Margarito is not endowed with the greatest of boxing skills and is not especially quick. His game lies
within his non-stop pressure attack, his durable chin and his ability to hit his opponents three ways:
hard, from all angles and continuously.
Mosley has made a career of beating “bigger” men; F. Vargas, Mayorga, A. Diaz, Stone and he went 12
rounds with Miguel Cotto. Can Mosley out box Margarito while piling up points of his own or can he
KO Margarito?
Shane may have some success early as he utilizes his quickness to outbox Margarito. But Margarito
is the type of fighter who keeps getting stronger as the fight progresses and I don’t see Shane being
able to sustain the pressure. At some point it will become a shootout and when it does Shane will be
at a huge disadvantage.
Antonio Margarito vs Shane Moskey Results
Besieged by outside-the-ring problems, "Sugar" Shane Mosley never let them bother him, at least publicly.Instead, he carried himself with a quiet confidence throughout the buildup to his fight with Antonio Margarito.
And when they finally got into the ring Saturday at the Staples Center, with a record crowd of 20,820 going crazy -- and mostly cheering for Margarito -- it seemed as though Mosley let whatever frustration that may have built up inside of him out on Margarito.
There was a knockdown in the eighth round.And a knockout 43 seconds into the ninth round, a round in which the Sugarman closed the show by outlanding Margarito a staggering 21-0.
The victory, in which Mosley, from nearby Pomona, regained the welterweight championship, was validation that he's still great, even at 37.
Mosley, an underdog perhaps in part because he had suffered a close decision loss to Cotto in November 2007, was way faster than Margarito. And he seemed to also land much heavier blows as he pressured Margarito, who is normally the pressure fighter, throughout the fight.
Mosley was landing huge shots when he finally knocked the usually iron-chinned Margarito down, sending him into the ropes with left hands and down on the end of hard right hands.Margarito (37-6, 27 KOs) went down face-first and was smiling when he rose.
In the ninth, he had nothing left. Mosley was teeing off on him in his corner, and as Margarito fell again, referee Raul Caiz was moving in to stop the fight at the same time Margarito's corner threw in the towel.
Margarito, 30, was out of sorts because he was forced to have his hands rewrapped before the fight after an illegal substance was discovered. Whatever it was, he took his beating like a man.
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