Floyd Mayweather Jr. is typically satisfied to just win a fight. At the moment even if, Money Mayweather wanted to earn his money.Fighting more assertively than usual, Mayweather rise above a near knockdown in the second round Saturday night to dominate the rest of the way and win a uneven 12-round decision over Shane Mosley in their welterweight showdown.
Boxing's biggest box office draw stayed unbeaten in 41 fights, but not before giving his fans and his corner a shock when a right hand to the side of his head misshapen his knees a minute into the second, and he had to grab Mosley to avoid going down. Mosley landed another right later in the round, but the rest of the night all belong to Mayweather.
Fighting ahead of a star-studded crowd that included Muhammad Ali, Mayweather never came close to dropping Mosley, but landed a lot of punches that the outcome wasn't in doubt past the middle rounds. He had a respond for everything Mosley tried to do, landing right hands to the head apparently at will as the fight progressed.
At the end of the night, Mayweather had placed so many rounds in the bank that the only question was whether he would stop Mosley or be at ease to win a lopsided decision. Mayweather kept back moving forward and sustained to press the issue in a fight that wasn't in doubt.
By the end of the fight, two ringside judges scored it 119-109 for Mayweather, while the third had it 118-110. He wins every round past the second.
The Associated Press had scored 117-110 for Mayweather.
The ringside punch statistics were as one-sided as the scorecards. They proved Mayweather landing 208 of 477 punches to 92 of 452 for Mosley.
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