Shane Mosley held multiple world championships in three weight classes, including the IBF lightweight title; the WBA and WBC welterweight titles; and the WBA, WBC, and The Ring magazine light middleweight titles.
86 Facts About Shane Mosley
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Shane Mosley was a lineal champion at welterweight and light middleweight.
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Shane Mosley was given the same honor by the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2000.
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Shane Mosley was born in Lynwood, California, and raised in Pomona, California.
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Shane Mosley became interested in boxing after watching his father, Jack, box in street fights.
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Shane Mosley has been trained and managed by his father since the age of eight.
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Shane Mosley was an amateur standout, capturing various amateur titles, including:.
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On February 11,1993, a 21-year-old Shane Mosley made his professional boxing debut in a scheduled six-round fight at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood, California.
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Shane Mosley's opponent was Greg Puente, who he knocked out in round five.
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Shane Mosley fought a further 6 times in 1993, winning all of them inside the distance.
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In 1994, Shane Mosley fought 9 times, winning all of them and 8 inside the distance.
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Shane Mosley was taken the 10 round distance by Oscar Lopez.
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In January 1996, Shane Mosley had his first fight outside of California since beginning his pro career.
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Shane Mosley fought at the Grand Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, knocking out 35-year-old Mike Bryan in round one.
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Shane Mosley knocked Gomez out in round 11 to retain his title.
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On February 6,1998, Shane Mosley defeated 24-year-old Demetrio Ceballos at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville.
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Shane Mosley was down again in round 8 following a flurry of punches before referee Eddie Cotton called an end to the fight.
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At the time of stoppage, Shane Mosley was ahead on all cards.
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In May 1998, Shane Mosley knocked out former world super featherweight champion and world lightweight challenger John John Molina in round 8 at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Shane Mosley then fought at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York City on September 22,1998, against Eduardo Bartolome Morales.
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On November 14,1998, Shane Mosley faced his toughest defense to date when he fought 32-year-old former WBC super featherweight champion Jesse James Leija at the Foxwoods Resort in Mashantucket, Connecticut.
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Shane Mosley took only two months out returning to the ring to defend his title in January 1999 against American Golden Johnson at the Civic Center in Pensacola, Florida.
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Shane Mosley beat the count, but was put down again seconds later, ending the fight.
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Shane Mosley vacated his lightweight title and moved up two weight divisions to welterweight, scored two consecutive knockouts against Wilfredo Rivera and Willy Wise, setting up a huge fight against Oscar De La Hoya for the WBC welterweight title.
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Shane Mosley defended his newly won titles on November 11,2000, at the Madison Square Garden Theater in New York against Mexican boxer Antonio Diaz.
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On March 10,2001, Shane Mosley was scheduled to fight unbeaten Australian Shannan Taylor at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
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Shane Mosley was losing all rounds, up until the end of the fifth round.
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On July 21,2001, Shane Mosley easily beat IBO World super welterweight champion Adrian Stone knocking him out in round 3.
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Stone moved down to welterweight for the first time in three years to challenge Shane Mosley and was losing the first 2-round before being stopped.
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Shane Mosley was knocked down twice in the second round as he went on to lose a unanimous decision, his first loss in his professional career.
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In round 2, Shane Mosley suffered a cut at the hairline from an accidental clash of heads.
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Shane Mosley's first fight at light middleweight was scheduled to take place on February 8,2003, against former IBF light-middleweight title holder Raul Marquez at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Paradise, Nevada.
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Shane Mosley defeated De La Hoya by a controversial 12 round unanimous decision and joined the exclusive group of world boxing champions that have reigned in three or more divisions.
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Shane Mosley testified in 2003 that he injected himself with the notorious doping agent EPO as he prepared for his light-middleweight title fight against Oscar De La Hoya, according to grand jury transcripts and doping calendars.
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Shane Mosley's next fight took place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 23,2005, against David Estrada in a scheduled 10 round bout.
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Shane Mosley was guaranteed $3 million from the fight plus percentages of the PPV revenue.
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Shane Mosley won the bout via 10th-round technical knockout after Vargas' left eye was completely closed.
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Shane Mosley was to earn $4 million plus a percentage and Vargas had a base purse of $3 million plus upside on the pay-per-view.
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Shane Mosley floored Vargas with a left hook in the sixth and Vargas had a very hard time in getting up.
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At the time of the stoppage, Shane Mosley had won every round on all three judges' cards.
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Shane Mosley was quicker than Vargas, easily winning rounds with his speed and combinations.
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At the time of stoppage, the scorecards were much more close than the first fight with Shane Mosley winning 5 rounds to non on all three scorecards.
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Cotto landed the better shots in round one and most of round two Shane Mosley landed some good rights at the end of the second.
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Shane Mosley adjusted and tried boxing from the outside in the seventh round.
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The boxing continued in the eighth as Shane Mosley moved and Cotto pursued.
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Shane Mosley hurt Cotto in the ninth round but Cotto fought back gamely at the end of the round.
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Shane Mosley dominated the first half of the tenth, but Cotto rallied in the second half.
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Shane Mosley pressed in the eleventh, but Cotto landed some great counter-punches to win the round.
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Shane Mosley earned a purse of $2 million and the fight garnered 400,000 PPV buys.
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The first time since 2000 that Shane Mosley would fight in his home state.
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Shane Mosley continued with right hands in the seventh and eighth rounds.
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Shane Mosley was able to land single power shots in the late rounds, but threw very few combinations.
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Shane Mosley regained the WBA welterweight title from Antonio Margarito on January 24,2009, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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Shane Mosley was scheduled to fight WBC champion Andre Berto in a unification fight, but Berto had to pull out after an Earthquake in Haiti killed some of his family members.
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On May 22,2010, Shane Mosley was stripped of his WBA welterweight title, due to not making a mandatory defense, which in turn made WBA Champion Vyacheslav Senchenko the sole WBA titlist in the welterweight division.
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The bout ended up being a highly disputed split draw, where many people thought that Shane Mosley narrowly won the closely contested bout.
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Punch stats showed that Shane Mosley landed 161 of 522 punches compared to 93 of 508 thrown by Mora.
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On May 7,2011, Shane Mosley lost the fight to Manny Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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Rapper LL Cool J performed as Shane Mosley first entered the arena, while vocalist Jimi Jamison of the rock band Survivor sang "Eye of the Tiger" as Pacquiao approached the ring.
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Shane Mosley was left dazed by the knockdown but managed to stand up.
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Shane Mosley floored Pacquiao in the tenth round with a push, but referee Kenny Bayless inexplicably ruled it a knockdown.
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Replays showed that Pacquiao was throwing a punch off balance, had his right foot stepped on by Shane Mosley's left foot and went down with a little help from Shane Mosley's right hand.
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In February 2012 it was announced that Shane Mosley would fight 21 year old, highly regarded light middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez on the Mayweather Jr.
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Alvarez was guaranteed $2 million whilst Shane Mosley took the smaller amount of $650,000.
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Shane Mosley took a lot of punches, but it didn't work.
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On March 19,2013, Shane Mosley announced he was coming out of retirement to fight 23-year-old Pablo Cesar Cano in Cancun, Mexico.
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Cano was able to win the first few rounds but Shane Mosley took control of the later rounds and pounded Cano until the final bell.
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Shane Mosley fought Australian former professional rugby league footballer Anthony Mundine on November 27,2013, at Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia.
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Shane Mosley lost the fight after Mundine scored a technical knockout during round 6.
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Shane Mosley stated that he plans to become a trainer, to train his son, Shane Jr.
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Shane Mosley said in another interview in early 2015 that he was not sure if he would fight again, but that he wanted to come back and face a fighter of similar age and specifically named Juan Manuel Marquez.
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On July 9,2015, Shane Mosley made a comeback announcement declaring he would fight former rival Ricardo Mayorga at a catchweight of 154 pounds on August 29 at The Forum in Los Angeles.
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Many outlets, including the WBC claimed it was all staged, to which Shane Mosley's camp called the WBC appalling.
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Shane Mosley later complained it was a low blow, but replays showed it was a legal blow.
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In October 2015, there were talks regarding Shane Mosley challenging WBO light middleweight champion Liam Smith to take place later in December, in a fight which would see Shane Mosley making his UK debut at the age of 44.
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Shane Mosley improved his ledger to 49 victories, with 41 of those victories coming inside the distance.
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At the time of the fight, Shane Mosley was ranked number 3 by the WBA.
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In March 2017, Shane Mosley announced that he would fight on against unbeaten Russian prospect Magomed Kurbanov at DIVS in Ekaterinburg on May 5,2017.
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On June 29,2017, it was reported that Shane Mosley had an unsuccessful surgery in his back, which required him to undergo another surgery.
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Shane Mosley retired with 61 fights in the paid ranks.
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Shane Mosley won 49, with 41 coming inside the distance, 10 losses, having only been stopped once, 1 draw and a no contest.
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Shane Mosley was among those named as a BALCO client, and he testified before a grand jury that he injected himself with the energy-boosting drug EPO and used undetectable steroids known as "the cream" and "the clear", acquired from BALCO, prior to his 2003 rematch with Oscar De La Hoya, which Mosley won by a unanimous decision.
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Shane Mosley insisted that he did not knowingly take banned substances, and thought they were vitamins.
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Shane Mosley said he believed "the cream" was flaxseed oil, but under questioning he admitted it was probably something else.
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In 2008 Shane Mosley launched a $12 million defamation lawsuit against BALCO founder Victor Conte, who claimed that Shane Mosley knowingly took performance-enhancing drugs.
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Shane Mosley has two children with his current partner, Trista Pisani.