Floyd Mayweather vs. Shane Mosley
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| Date | May 1, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Venue | MGM Grand Garden Arena, Paradise, Nevada, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title(s) on the line | None. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tale of the tape | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Mayweather via unanimous decision | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boxer |
 Floyd Mayweather |
Shane Mosley |
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| Nickname | Money | Sugar | |
| Hometown | Grand Rapids, Michigan | Pomona, California | |
| Pre-fight record | 40–0–0 (25 KO) | 46–5–0 (39 KO) | |
| Height | 5 feet, 8 inches | 5 feet, 9 inches | |
| Recognition | Ring Magazine pound for pound No. 2 | Ring Magazine pound for pound No. 3, WBA Welterweight Super Champion |
Floyd Mayweather vs. Shane Mosley was a boxing welterweight non-title superfight, in which Mayweather won by unanimous decision with two judges scoring it 119–109 and one judge scoring it 118–110. The bout was held on May 1, 2010, before a "sellout" crowd of 15,117 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Boxing greats Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson were among a long list of celebrities in attendance. The match was put together after Andre Berto pulled out of his scheduled January 30 unification bout against Mosley.
Talk about a fight between Mayweather and Mosley went back as far as 1999.
However the first serious talk of fight between the fighters came after Floyd Mayweather's win over Juan Manuel Marquez, when the two fighters confronted each other and started shoving and insulting each other. However following this incident each fighter went his own way, only to meet up again.
Shane Mosley was scheduled to face Andre Berto for a WBC and WBA Welterweight title unification bout on January 30, 2010. However, the fight (and entire undercard) was called off on January 18, 2010, due to an earthquake in Haiti and Berto losing several family members in the disaster. Negotiations for a proposed matchup between Mosley and Floyd Mayweather Jr. immediately began afterwards, ending with both sides agreeing to a set date of May 1, 2010, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight was billed "Who R U Picking?"
The earliest pre-fight hype came after Manny Pacquiao's fight with Joshua Clottey on March 13, 2010, when HBO aired a brief interview, confrontational-styled show entitled, "Face Off" with Max Kellerman hosting and leading the conversation.
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