Saturday May 1st live on HBO PPV from MGM Grand Garden Arena Las Vegas,NV it'll be the WBA Welterweight Championship featuring Shane Mosley (46-5-0, 39KO's) & Floyd Mayweather Jr. (40-0-0, 25KO's). Mosley and Mayweather Jr. come into the bout ranked 3rd & 2ND respectively in Ring Magazine pound for pound, best fighters in the world. Mosley will enter the ring at age 38 and Mayweather Jr. 33. Floyd came out of retirement after nearly two years and won every round in route to an unanimous decision victory over Juan Manuel Marquez, in his last fight. Shane in his previous fight defeated Antonio Margarito via TKO in round nine. Many boxing experts believe a mega fight with Manny Pacquiao, could be in the works for the winner of this bout. Mayweather Jr. was originally supposed to fight Pacquiao this past March. The fight was to take place in the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington,TX however Olympic steroid testing or lack there of, caused the fight not to happen. Instead Manny fought Joshua Clottey in the same venue, winning an unanimous decision. Several boxing experts believe everyone wants to see Mayweather vs. Pacquiao, however because Mayweather is such a defensive boxer, the action fight would be Mosley vs. Pacquiao. HBO has followed both boxers during it's series 24/7, during the build up for the prize fight. They've interviewed both men as well as their respective training camps. Both Floyd and Shane have said some interesting things about one another along the way, same could be said about their respective camps. Nevertheless, we're less than one week away from biggest fight of the calendar year 2010. Mosley, will look to defeat Mayweather Jr. something forty previous boxers failed to do, Mayweather Jr. will look to defeat another Hall of Fame boxer like he did with Oscar De La Hoya as well as others.
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