During the fight of Pacquiao versus Mosley, Floyd Mayweather Jr. was not at the ringside. “Sugar” Shane Mosley was his former opponent and he won over Mosley during their fight. But the Filipino fighter Manny Pacquiao would be his closest rival above the ring and he could get some ideas and learn some techniques to defeat his rival pound-for-pound king – Manny Pacquiao.
Filipino boxing analyst, Ronnie Nathanielsz said Mosley fighting style was more on running after Pacquiao knocked him down the reason Pacquiao found it difficult to finish the fight before the end of the twelve rounds.
In contrast to the fight, during the match Mayweather versus Mosley, Mayweather was surprised by Mosley in the first few rounds but in the latter rounds Mayweather was able to dominate and defeat Mosley.
During their fight, Mosley looked Mayweather better than Manny Pacquaiao. When Mayweather saw that Pacquiao fail to knockout Mosley, by then Mayweather can decide to fight Pacquiao based on the previous scenarios, Nathanielsz said.
Mayweather would be thinking since Pacquiao fail to knockout Mosley and he survived the 12 rounds knowing that Mayweather is much better and wiser than Mosley, so he can also survive and probably beat the People’s Champ. With the big amount at stake of not less than $5-million, he will surely think positively, “Yes. Let’s go. Let us fight.”
Pacquiao tried to make the show alive and very interesting during their fight against Mosley for the reason of his fans but Mosley was unwilling to get hurt.”
Pacquiao knows that his fans were paying money and he want them to be entertained but Mosley did not want to draw the fight. After the knockdown in the 3rd round, he just got the fear. Shane Mosley didn’t take the money and run. But he ran and then took the money,” boxing analyst said.