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"Sugar" Shane Mosley (born September 7, 1971) is a boxer from Pomona, California. He has won world titles in three weight divisions. He is the current WBA Welterweight Super Champion.
ey was an amateur standout, capturing various amateur titles, including:
r Shane started his pro career in 1993, By 2000 he had fought 34 fights to a 34–0 (32KOs) record, beating undefeated Phillip Holiday to win the IBF lightweight title.
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"Sugar" Shane Mosley (born September 7, 1971) is a boxer from Pomona, California. He has won world titles in three weight divisions. He is the current WBA Welterweight Super Champion.
Amateur career
Mosley was an amateur standout, capturing various amateur titles, including:
Professional career
Undefeated Lightweight Champion
Sugar Shane started his pro career in 1993, By 2000 he had fought 34 fights to a 34–0 (32KOs) record, beating undefeated Phillip Holiday to win the IBF lightweight title. He made 9 title defenses and moved up 2 divisions to face Oscar De La Hoya for his welterweight title.
De La Hoya vs. Sugar Shane Mosley
On June 17, 2000, Mosley met De La Hoya in Los Angeles for the World Boxing Council welterweight title. After twelve rounds, Mosley emerged with a split decision victory. During the fight neither man was in danger of going down, but both had badly swollen faces at the end and De La Hoya was bleeding from the nose for several rounds. De La Hoya earned a minimum of $15 million, while Mosley was guaranteed $4.5 million.
Mosley vs. Vernon Forrest I & II
He ran a successful string of defenses of his welterweight title, but against three unheralded fighters. When he finally did step up his competition, it was against former Olympian Vernon Forrest. Early in the second round, the fighters clashed heads and both staggered backward as referee Steve Smoger called time. Mosley sustained a cut on the hairline. When action resumed, Forrest knocked Mosley down twice more in the round. The final scorecards read 115-110, 117-108, 118-108, in favor of Forrest.
They had a rematch six months later at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indiana, and Mosley once again lost by decision.
Bouncing back after Forrest
On February 8, 2003, Mosley's bout with former IBF world light middleweight champion Raul Marquez ended in a no contest when Mosley accidentally head butted Marquez twice in round three, which caused two very bad cuts above the eyes of Marquez.
He and De La Hoya faced each other for the second time on September 13, this time with De La Hoya's WBC and WBA light middleweight belts on the line. Mosley defeated De La Hoya by a close 12 round unanimous decision, and joined the exclusive group of world boxing champions that have reigned in three or more divisions. 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.
Mosley vs. Wright I & II
On March 13, 2004, Mosley lost his WBC and WBA world light middleweight titles in a unification bout with IBF Jr. Middleweight champion Winky Wright, by a unanimous twelve-round decision.
On November 20, Mosley and Wright fought their rematch, and although it was scored much closer by the three judges (115-113 twice for Wright and a 114-114 tie), Mosley lost by a twelve-round majority decision.
Still hungry
On September 17, he beat another previously undefeated fighter, Jose Luis Cruz, by a ten round decision.
Mosley then defeated Fernando Vargas on February 25, 2006 by TKO in the tenth round at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, due to a massive swelling which closed Fernando's left eye. At the time of the stoppage, Mosley was winning on two scorecards 86-85, while Vargas held an 86-85 advantage on the other scorecard. A rematch was announced almost immediately
Mosley defeated Fernando Vargas in the rematch on July 15, 2006. Mosley dominated Vargas from start to finish, eventually ending the fight via a sixth-round TKO.
Shane defeated Luis Collazo on 11 February 2007, with a unanimous decision after 12 rounds, knocking Collazo down once, to capture the WBC interim welterweight crown.
Fight with Miguel Cotto
Mosley and undefeated WBA welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto met on Nov. 10 at Madison Square Garden in a fight broadcast on HBO Pay-Per-View. In one of the very best fights of the year Cotto beat Mosley by way of close but unanimous decision. After that bout Mosley was scheduled to face Zab Judah in a welterweight bout in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 31st. Due to an arm injury suffered by Judah, the fight was cancelled.
Mosley vs Mayorga
Mosley-Mayorga was originally scheduled for Oct. 11 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer and Mosley's wife and advisor, Jin Mosley, told ESPN.com.
On July 18, 2008, it was reported on ESPN.com's quick hits that The fight between Mayorga and Mosley was moved to the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA and set for September 27th because of the Pavlik-Hopkins fight agreement for October 18th on HBO PPV. And the good news for fight fans was that the Mayorga-Mosley bout was not to be on HBO PPV, instead it was shown on HBO at no cost.
Shane Mosley stopped Ricardo Mayorga with one second left in the 12th round of their junior middleweight bout, Mosley led by one point on judge Nelson Vasquez's scorecard and five on Tony Crebs' entering the 12th round. Mayorga had a one point lead on judge Pat Russell's card. The Associated Press had Mosley ahead by three points entering the 12th.
Mosley vs Margarito
Mosley regained the WBA welterweight championship from Antonio Margarito on January 24, 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Mosley, now 37 years old, came in to the fight as a 4-1 underdog with the bookies after Margarito had spectacularly stopped Cotto 6 months earlier. Prior to the bout nobody gave Mosley a chance of prevailing- everybody believing that Margarito was too strong and that Mosley was too old. The conventional wisdom was that this was a mismatch, which would end in a brutal retirement-forcing stoppage for Sugar Shane. A comparison of their last fights- the aforementioned destruction of Cotto by Margarito and a last-gasp knockout by Mosley in a hard twelve round struggle against Mayorga- did not bode well for Sugar Shane. Some predicted a massacre. And it was- only Margarito was the man who was ruthlessly clubbed about the ring, unable to land any meaningful shots.
Mosley eventually TKO'd Margarito in the ninth round, after appearing to win every round up until then, in a massive upset. Sugar Shane utterly dominated Margarito, using his superior hand speed, pinpoint accuracy and countless huge right hands to the Margarito's jaw, to wear Margarito down and stop him- something that many seasoned boxing observers thought was nigh-on impossible. After knocking him down with a series of heavy overhand rights at the end of the eighth round, Margarito was unable to avoid punches during a heavy barrage from Mosley early on in the ninth, forcing the referee to step in as Margarito slumped to the canvas a second time. Margarito had never previously been stopped. It was a sensational win for Sugar Shane and propelled him back to the top of the tree in the welterweight division.
The fight was marred in a controversy after Mosley's trainer diligently spotted an illegal plaster accessory being added to Margarito's hand wraps, which had to be redone three times before the commission's officials were satisfied..
Current record
Mosley currently holds a record of 46 wins, 5 losses and 1 no contest, with 39 knockouts, and has never been knocked out or stopped in his career.
Doping accusations
Along with many other professional or Olympic athletes, Mosley has been connected to the BALCO Labs steroid scandal. Jeff Novitzky, a lead investigator on the BALCO case, reported that document seized from the lab show that Mosley received "the clear" and "the cream", both designer steroids. Mosley reportedly began his doping regimen prior to his 2003 bout with Oscar De La Hoya, a match that he won due in part to his strong performance in the later rounds of the fight.
Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO, has since accused Mosley of knowingly taking performance enhancing drugs. He told the Los Angeles Times that Shane Mosley knew "exactly and precisely what he was doing" when he utilized BALCO's services. Mosley maintains that he believed the products he was using from BALCO were legal vitamins and is suing Conte for libel. In May 2008, Mosley's former trainer, Derryl Hudson, supported Conte's allegations against Mosley. In a declaration that was used in Conte's motion to have the lawsuit dismissed, Hudson wrote, "I know that Mr. Mosley was aware that the performance-enhancing drugs provided to him by Mr. Conte were banned drugs because I discussed that fact with Mr. Mosley both during and after our visit to BALCO,"
"Sugar" Shane Mosley told a grand jury in 2003 that he injected himself with the doping agent EPO as he prepared for a fight against Oscar De La Hoya, according to court transcripts and doping calendars reviewed by the New York Daily News. The transcript of the boxer's testimony was part of a BALCO file that was under a protective order before U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston decided last Wednesday to allow prosecutors to share thousands of documents with Barry Bonds' lawyers.
Personal life
His wife Jin Mosley is a Korean American who was born and raised in New York. Therefore, he would always attach the Taegukgi, which is the flag of South Korea to his trunks when he fought. They have three children together, Najee Jamarr, Taiseki Justin and Mee-Yon Jinae.
Shane also has one other child Shane Jr. , who is following in his father's footsteps and training to be a boxer as well.
It was announced on HBO, minutes before his fight with Margarito, that he and Jin had recently separated. Later, it was revealed that she had filed for divorce.
Professional championships
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