Memorial Day Notes: Chavez wants Mosley
by Scott Christ on May 25, 2009 9:25 PM EDT
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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is talking a lot right now. He says he wants to change camps (he'll be moving to Big Bear for his next fight), get a new trainer (ditching uncle Rodolfo Chavez, perhaps for Robert Garcia), and he wants to fight Sugar Shane Mosley.
Mosley (46-5, 39 KO) wants to fight Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather Jr. because he's 37 years old and wants major paydays, but neither fight would appear too likely. Recent scuttlebutt is that Mayweather doesn't think Mosley draws enough (and Mosley has never been a major PPV draw without Oscar) and that the Pacquiao camp really isn't even considering him.
It'd be a shame for Mosley to sit around fighting once a year again after his huge win against Antonio Margarito in January. A fight with Chavez would have to take place at 154, where Mosley is maybe 75% as good as he is at 147. Simply put at this age, Mosley at 154 looks like he should consider retirement. At 147 he's one of the world's very best still.
Still, Chavez (39-0, 29 KO) has never faced anyone even close to Mosley's class, and by that I mean the 154-pound Mosley. Most everyone, I suspect, would see Mosley ripping Chavez to pieces. JCC Jr. simply isn't good enough unless he surprises a whole lot of people, and I'd be shocked to see Bob Arum sacrifice his cash cow this year against a Golden Boy fighter. We're talking about a guy who struggled in two of his last three fights against Matt Vanda and Luciano Cuello.
- David Haye says he won't wind up like Bernard Hopkins or Oscar de la Hoya. The wiseacre in you might want to immediately go, "Yeah, he's not going to the Hall of Fame like they are." Haye says he will retire at 30. I'll believe it when I see it. And again: I'm getting more than tired of all these guys talking retirement before they're 30 years old.
- In case you missed it, on Friday in Vegas a mildly notable footnote of a card took place. Oliver McCall, now 44, knocked out a former rugby player from Australia, and his son Elijah knocked out a 30-year old tomato can.
- Golden Boy's Abner Mares signed a managerial deal with Espinoza Boxing Club.
- Steve Kim at MaxBoxing did a nice article on Alfredo Angulo, who
beats upfights Kermit Cintron this Saturday on HBO. - Ruslan Chagaev does not like roller coasters.
- If you want to kill some time, go try to name all the heavyweight champs and titleholders at Sporcle. I'll give you a freebie: Michael Bentt.
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Memorial Day Laughs: Chavez wants Mosley
"Penelosa is not human." -Max Kellerman on Gerry Penelosa during the Juan Manuel Lopes-Gerry Penelosa bout.
i got 70
that test can drive you crazy.
had brain farts on guys like ken norton and pinklin thomas among others.
weird thing is they put IBO champs on the list. dannell nicolson and brain neilson are on the list which is pretty funny.
Brain farts galore here as well
Also, I wasted like a minute correctly trying to spell Liakhovich’s name (I kept trying to spell with a “y” like I always have), but missed some easy ones like Norton, Braddock and Berbeck . Got to 91, but missed some that should have been easy. For some reason, had a lot of trouble remembering who did was pre-Ali and pre-Tyson. Plus, counting the IBO, seriously??? I’m sorry, but Brien Nielsen and Danell Nicholson were never heavyweight anything (but pretty sadly I actually got Nielsen – once I saw IBO was in the mix, I remembered Nielsen had it forever). And Lee Savold? I can’t say I’d ever heard of the guy before this.
Vogt early, Vogt often.
i spent atleast
half the 10 minutes on google correcting my horrible spelling. i still cant spell wlad and vitali klitschko correctly without google.
i couldn’t for the life of me remember the first 5 champs other than sullivan. then spent a bunch of time trying to remember pinklon thomas of all people when i was on all of tysons victims.
by sonofapsycho on May 26, 2009 12:11 AM EDT up reply actions
I forgot Thomas altogether
And spend like a minute picturing Bruce Seldon’s face as he’s getting ‘knocked out’ but completely blanking on his name.
Vogt early, Vogt often.
"Lucas Oil" on the headband....
Is that another way of JCCJ stating what we aall already knew; ie- he is thick, overpriced and the only real use for it is to burn it at different temperatures until it’s gone?
Boxing is the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight. (Omar Epps)
I think it’s appropriate that Chagaev is sparring with Ray “Kilmanjaro” Olubowale and Julius Long to prepare for Valuev, since they are both very tall and neither one could box if his life depended on it. A fairly accurate simulation.
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
Not for nothin'....
But JCC’s kid really, truly looks like a chick in that photo up there. He looks like a female in just about any photo I’ve ever seen of him. But throw a wig on him and this one morphs into the teaser shot for a Playboy pictorial.
"This fight'll be the nastiest thing you'll ever see. I been sober for six weeks, and that makes me vicious."
-- Randall 'Tex' Cobb
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