'Sugar' Shane Mosley Doesn't Need To Act Like A Fool
- Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:56 AM
- Written By: Joel Huerto
Floyd Mayweather Jr. continues to pepper Shane Mosley with a barrage of insults, calling him a Leprechaun, an Avatar and even poked fun at his hot-tub-time-machine haircut. But "Sugar" Shane has decided to absorb all of Mayweather's verbal jabs without retaliation because he knows he'll get his shot when he faces "Pretty Boy" Floyd on May 1 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
"He doesn't mean any of that stuff. That's just something to get an edge in the fight. Why am I gonna feed into that? Why am I gonna feed into something that I know he's trying to do? Then I'm the fool," Mosley said on HBO's "24/7" series.
Mayweather, 33, claims Mosley, 38, has been ducking him since 1998 and 1999, and both men have their own versions of the story.
"I wanted to fight Shane but we didn't make the fight happen because he said he had a tooth ache," Mayweather explained why the two legendary welterweights waited more than a decade before finally agreeing to fight each other.
"I told Mosley that all roads lead to Floyd Mayweather Jr. I told him that [his] biggest payday will be against me. Shane is one of my options," Mayweather boasted at a pre-fight conference at L.A. Live's Nokia Theater. "I'm not ducking nobody. I'm in a position to pick and choose my opponent."
When I relayed the message to Mosley about Floyd's claim that he was avoiding him, "Sugar" Shane came back with: "Tell Floyd to stop making up things. Tell Floyd to stop lying."
Note: Heroes & Villains author Joel Huerto will do a live round-by-round scoring of the Mayweather-Mosley fight on May 1. The pay-per-view event will start at 6 p.m. PST. For those who want to follow the live round-by-round blog, visit SportsFanLive.com/heroesvillains.
