{"id":669833,"date":"2026-05-14T22:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669833\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:15:08","slug":"shane-mosley-names-the-two-men-he-couldve-avoided-in-his-career-nobody-wanted-to-face-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669833\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Mosley names the two men he could&#8217;ve avoided in his career: &#8216;Nobody wanted to face them&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Mosley fought as a professional on 61 occasions, taking on some of boxing\u2019s best operators between the lightweight and super-welterweight division. Although, there are two names that stick out to Mosley as opponents he could easily have swerved.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Sugar\u2019 Shane Mosley competed for 23 years as a professional after turning over as an amateur standout, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/features\/on-this-day-shane-mosley-became-a-star-with-a-superb-points-victory-over-oscar-de-la-hoya\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">famously moving on from his lightweight reign to dethrone welterweight ruler, Oscar De La Hoya<\/a>, and then repeating the feat up at super-welterweight when he trumped \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 for a second time.<\/p>\n<p>Although, over the course of his legendary career, Mosley would pick up 10 career defeats and in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EUmMFW1JikE?si=Qb355MI1L4U023Uw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FightHype<\/a>, the Californian admitted that his desire to be the best was a key reason why, noting how other fighters would have swerved Ronald \u2018Winky\u2019 Wright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[My mentality was], if I am not the best fighter then find somebody to beat me, because I don\u2019t want to be the world champion if I am not the best. I don\u2019t want it, if I am not the best, I want to be the best. I didn\u2019t ask for more money, I didn\u2019t care about none of that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a kid, I wanted to be great, I wanted to be like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali. That was my destiny.My destiny is not money or contracts or whatever else. That is why I fought people that shouldn\u2019t have fought at certain times, I wasn\u2019t picking my fights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like \u2018Winky [Wright]? Don\u2019t nobody want to fight him? Okay, I will fight him\u2019, I wasn\u2019t even a 154lber, I was a 147lber, \u2018I will fight you because nobody else wants to fight you\u2019. Then Winky goes on to fight [Felix] Trinidad and other people and he gets his chance in the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wbcboxing.com\/en\/on-this-day-in-history-winky-wright-defeats-shane-mosley-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Defensive mastermind Wright twice trumped Mosley in 2004<\/a>, and Mosley also recalled how he could have avoided fights with the only other man to beat him twice, Vernon Forrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVernon Forrest, same thing. I didn\u2019t have to fight him. I could have went on and avoided and danced around. Then he went on and lost to [Ricardo] Mayorga.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of those defeats, Mosley was inducted into International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2020, alongside fellow greats Bernard Hopkins and Juan Manuel Marquez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Mosley fought as a professional on 61 occasions, taking on some of boxing\u2019s best operators between the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-669833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}