Shane Mosley shared the ring with Oscar De La Hoya on two occasions, with each of those contests coming over two decades ago. Now, Mosley is poised to return to the ring aged 53-years-old and ‘Golden Boy’ has shared some choice words regarding the comeback of his old rival.
De La Hoya collided with ‘Sugar’ when he was the reigning WBC welterweight champion back in June 2000 but it was the American who came out on top and edged a split-decision victory to claim a famous win between two of the sport’s most respected pound-for-pound contenders.
Feeling as though he had done enough to win in their first encounter, De La Hoya demanded a rematch with Mosley and would get his shot three years later. Mosley stepped through the ropes without a win to his name in his last three contests but challenged for De La Hoya’s world titles once again – the Mexican holding the WBA, WBC and The Ring super-welterweight marbles at the time.
Once again, De La Hoya felt as though he was hard done by on the judges’ scorecards as he lost a unanimous-decision this time around, although the decision was deemed even more controversial than that of their first affair.
It was later revealed that Shane Mosley had taken performance enhancing drugs during the build-up to the rematch, although the 1998 Fighter of the Year maintained that he believed he was taking vitamins.
Mosley would eventually hang up the gloves in some 14 years later in 2017, following a forced cancellation of a bout against Russia’s Magomed Kurbanov due to a botched elbow surgery, as per ESPN.
“I went in for a minor arthroscopic surgery to remove a couple loose bone fragments from my elbow and the surgery turned into a whole ordeal after the surgeon admittedly ‘accidentally’ burned me on my forearm, leading to a sick infection and needing like four or five days of IV antibiotics and two weeks of antibiotics at home. It was crazy and surreal to learn that I could never fight again.”
However, it was recently revealed that Mosley would return to the ring in a Celebrity Boxing event in Philadelphia – which is set to take place this weekend. On social media, Oscar De La Hoya offered to buy out the whole arena and showed pity towards his former dance partner.
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Oscar goes in on Sugar Shane.
“He looks like he bathed in Diddy’s baby oil!”#Boxing#BOXINGnBBQpic.twitter.com/kZT2RZUJnc
— BOXING n BBQ (@BOXINGnBBQ) September 26, 2024
“Hall of Famer Shane Mosley Sr. is returning to the ring this weekend at Harrah’s in Philly for a Celebrity Boxing match. You look like you have been bathed in [P] Diddy’s baby oil! What the f**k?
“Shane, you talk so much s**t about me but, because I feel so bad for you dude, I want to buy out the arena that you are fighting in. Let me know who I can contact so that I can make this happen and by the way, keep my name out of your f***ing mouth.”
Mosley will fight local boxing trainer Bob Kofroth tomorrow night at The Event Center in Harrah’s Casino, Philadelphia, topping a bill which also features former WBO super-lightweight challenger Hank Lundy, as well as local rapper ‘Freeway’ and Kimbo Slice Jr., son of the fan-favourite martial-artist of the same name.
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