{"id":253307,"date":"2025-11-09T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253307\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:54:09","slug":"shane-mosley-names-the-current-champion-who-would-be-the-man-to-beat-floyd-mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253307\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Mosley Names The Current Champion Who Would Be The Man To Beat Floyd Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hall of Fame inductee Shane Mosley<\/a> has revealed the one active world champion that he believes would have been capable of defeating Floyd Mayweather<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mayweather became a world champion in five weight classes during his glittering professional career, with many fans considering the Michigan-native to be one of the greatest fighters to ever lace up a pair of gloves.<\/p>\n

He shared the ring with an abundance of legendary opponents along the way, defeating each of the 50 fighters that he crossed paths with including the likes of Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez, Juan Manuel Marquez, Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao.<\/p>\n

Mayweather\u2019s career was drawn to a close back in 2017, just a few months after he defeated former UFC world champion Conor McGregor<\/a> in their monumental crossover bout at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

One man that failed to get the better of Mayweather, although he did come very close, is three-weight world champion Shane Mosley, with the two fighters meeting back in May of 2010.<\/p>\n

Mosley rocked Mayweather early on in their fight<\/a>, but would go on to suffer a unanimous decision loss, though Mosley has now named who he thinks has what it takes to overcome his former rival.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Fight Hub TV<\/a>, Mosley admitted that he believes unbeaten pound-for-pound star Terence Crawford<\/a> is a better overall fighter than Mayweather, as he backs \u2018Bud\u2019 to defeat his countryman in an intriguing fantasy match-up.<\/p>\n

\u201dI think Crawford is better, bigger, like he\u2019s actually moving weight class and I would say Crawford is a better all-around fighter. Mayweather\u2019s really good too though, you can\u2019t knock him as well, he\u2019s very talented. It would have been a tough fight but I think Crawford would have the edge over Mayweather because of the long arms and because he\u2019s bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crawford secured his status as arguably the greatest fighter of his entire generation back in September when he defeated Mexican icon to Canelo to capture the undisputed super-middleweight championship, becoming the first male fighter in boxing history to achieve this feat in three separate divisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame inductee Shane Mosley has revealed the one active world champion that he believes would have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-253307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}