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Pacquiao will knock Mosley out today
By Al S. Mendoza
RECORD for record, how can Manny Pacquiao lose today against Shane Mosley?
Look, Mosley has six losses in a 46-6-1, win-loss-draw record. Pacquiao is 52-3-2.
The disparity doesn’t end there.
In his last two fights, Mosley fared badly.
First, he got routed by Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
OK, OK, Mosley nearly knocked out Mayweather. But that was just one round.
In fairness, Mosley hit Mayweather with one shot that jarred Mayweather.
Alas, that was all. Mosley couldn’t follow it up – proof that Father Time has caught up with him.
The remaining 11 rounds were all Mayweather’s.
In his second fight after the May 2010 loss to Mayweather, Mosley could barely eke out a points victory.
And yet, in that last fight of his, Mosley had an opponent fitting the description of a taho vendor.
Today, some eight months after that forgettable fight, Mosley is going to face the most dangerous man on the planet.
In his last two fights, Pacquiao virtually pulverized his opponents in scoring lopsided wins over Joshua Clottey and Antonio Margarito.
They were fights that should have been stopped in the 10th or earlier for reasons only the referees would know.
Pacquiao was pounding Clottey and Margarito at will that at the end of 12 rounds in both fights, Pacquiao’s swollen knuckles ached for a week or so.
Mosley has 39 knockouts to Pacquiao’s 38, but Mosley had scored KOs against virtually unknown foes.
Pacquiao knocked out the best of the best, including Marco Antonio Barrera, Ricky Hatton, Oscar De La Hoya, David Diaz, Miguel Cotto and, yes, Erik Morales (twice).
Mosley has three world crowns but that’s so puny compared to Pacquiao’s eight world titles in eight different weight divisions – the 8th being the 154-lb tiara against Margarito in November 2010.
If Mosley elects not to surrender early in the welterweight title fight (147 lb), he will end up as Pacquiao’s 14th straight victim since Pacquiao stopped Hector Velasquez in 2005.
Likewise, if Mosley decides to slug it out today out of sheer pride, he will become Pacquiao’s 39th knockout victim, giving the Pacman his 16th KO victory in his last 23 fights since he kayoed Lehlo Ledwaba in 2001.
As I keep saying, Mosley, at 39, would be the easiest customer yet for Pacquiao, who, at 32, is at his fastest, strongest and deadliest.
Pacquiao losing today is like seeing Osama Bin Laden killing all the 79 American Navy Seals that killed him on May 2.
I pray God would look kinder on Mosley in that the Pomona, California, native doesn’t get seriously hurt in the 12-round mismatch.
When in the mood, God can also play favorites.
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