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By Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport. The Floyd Mayweather-Shane Mosley mini-media tour has already dipped its toe into boorishness and it is a shame that Mosley, one of the classiest fighters to step into the ring over the last 20 years, has to be stained by its muck. Aside from his BALCO folly, admittedly a big folly, Mosley has never been anything but a credit to the sport. Now, perhaps for the first time in his career, Mosley is engaged in WWE shenanigans for a fight that needs no selling. Read the rest here...

Colin Linneweber of the Boston Boxing Examiner ranks the top 5 most skilled fighters of the past 25 years. Considering the relative dearth of recent activity in The Sweet Science, I decided to rank the five most skilled boxers to enter the ring over the course of the past quarter-century. It is imperative that I emphasize the word "skilled." The forthcoming list is not comprised of the most accomplished or decorated pugilists since 1985. Rather, I ultimately nominated the five fighters below based strictly on their physical gifts and their overall pugilistic capabilities... Read the rest here...