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By Randy De La O
Sugar Shane Mosley turned back the hands of time tonight to stop Antonio Margarito in the ninth round of their twelve round WBA Welterweight title fight at the Staples Center in Los Angeles before a record crowd of 20,820.
Margarito, who never really seemed to be in the fight could not keep the shorter Mosley from fighting on the inside, he also could not avoid the right hand, the left hook or the rapid fire jab. Margarito had some good moments in the middle rounds but never sustained his attack. He could not find his range and his punches lacked their usual sting. Mosley on the other hand had no trouble finding his range. He punched with authority and he seemingly got stronger as the fight wore on., something I expected Margarito to do. Mosley was at his best tonight and turned in one of the best performance of his career. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Congratulations to the new champion!
2 comments:
Randyman...I saw last nights fight and I was shocked to here that Mosely was a 4-1 underdog. Mosely looked awesome last night and he made the champion look sluggich with his one dimensional plodding attack. I didn't give one round to Margarito even though he did put a couple of punches together in the 6th and 7th. You gave a good account of the fight. I look foward to the rematch between Margarito and Cotto without the Illegal hardening substance on his hand wraps that he was caught with last night.
Mosley pitched a shutout last night. I had him winning every round as well. Margarito was sluggish and weak.
As for the the handwraps, I'm going to give Magarito the same benefit of the doubt that I gave Mosley on the steroids accusation. Margarito just does not strike me as a fighter that would cheat.
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