{"id":323608,"date":"2025-12-02T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323608\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:59:07","slug":"shane-mosley-faced-canelo-pacquiao-and-de-la-hoya-but-says-another-world-champion-hit-him-hardest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323608\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Mosley faced Canelo, Pacquiao and De La Hoya but says another world champion hit him hardest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane Mosley, who fought the likes of Canelo Alvarez<\/a>, Manny Pacquiao<\/a>, Floyd Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya<\/a>, has named one man as the hardest-punching opponent he ever faced.<\/p>\n

Like the vast majority of world-class fighters, Mosley \u2013 who, of course, was no feather-fisted operator himself \u2013 came up against several elite-level knockout artists throughout his 60-fight career.<\/a><\/p>\n

Back in 2011, \u2018Sugar\u2019 collided with then-WBO world welterweight champion Pacquiao who, especially at that time, was considered one of the sport\u2019s most ferocious punchers.<\/p>\n

Their encounter ultimately saw Mosley suffer a unanimous decision defeat, though the American nonetheless showcased his remarkable durability and survival instinct.<\/p>\n

Before that, in 2007, Mosley found himself on the wrong end of another unanimous decision, this time against Miguel Cotto<\/a>, who, again, was regarded as a particularly heavy-handed customer at 147lbs.<\/p>\n

But despite losing to a selection of proven punchers at the top level, Mosley was also successful at defusing the explosive attacks of several other opponents.<\/p>\n

Against both De La Hoya and Fernando Vargas, for instance, the former three-division world champion was able to emerge victorious on two separate occasions.<\/p>\n

A similar story also unfolded when Mosley faced Antonio Margarito, another potent puncher, and ultimately dismantled his opponent with a ninth-round stoppage win in 2009.<\/p>\n

According to the Hall of Famer, though, it was Vernon Forrest, a fighter that twice defeated him in 2002, who ultimately delivered the most force behind his shots.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Ring Magazine<\/a>, Mosley reveals that Forrest\u2019s natural power was what caused him the most problems during their two encounters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure why; maybe it was just natural. [Forrest] just hit the hardest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forrest was a two-weight world champion at welterweight and super-welterweight, and ended his career with 41 wins from 45 fights, 29 of those wins by knockout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Mosley, who fought the likes of Canelo Alvarez, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather and Oscar De La Hoya,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-323608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}