{"id":429090,"date":"2026-02-16T18:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429090\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:56:07","slug":"shane-mosley-names-which-of-the-four-kings-he-would-have-avoided-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/429090\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane Mosley names which of the Four Kings he would have avoided: “No thanks”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shane Mosley has named one of the four kings \u2013 Sugar Ray Leonard<\/a>, Tommy Hearns, Marvin Hagler<\/a> and Roberto Duran<\/a> \u2013 who he would never wish to fight in a fantasy matchup.<\/p>\n

Ordinarily, the former two-weight world champion was never one to swerve a challenge, having tested himself against several of the sport\u2019s fiercest competitors.<\/p>\n

After defeating Oscar De La Hoya at 147lbs<\/a>, back in 2000, Mosley would go on to face the likes of Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao<\/a> and Miguel Cotto<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His last world title fight, at 154lbs, then saw him lose a unanimous decision to Canelo Alvarez<\/a> in 2012, with \u2018Sugar\u2019 calling time on his Hall of Fame career around four years later.<\/p>\n

But despite facing some of the most elite fighters this sport has ever seen, Mosley doubts he would have been equally keen to collide with a certain member of the four kings.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Art Of Dialogue<\/a>, the American said he would sooner lock horns with Leonard and Duran than agree to face Hearns, a towering puncher at both 147lbs and 154lbs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have wanted to fight him [Hearns]. I\u2019d rather fight Sugar Ray Leonard and Duran than fight Tommy Hearns.<\/p>\n

\u201cTommy Hearns back then \u2013 6ft 1in, 6ft 2in; long arms \u2013 no [thanks].\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite losing to Leonard at 147lbs, Hearns went on to score career-defining victories over the likes of Wilfred Benitez and Duran, before losing a thrilling three-round shootout against Hagler up at middleweight.<\/p>\n

Then, in his rematch with Leonard at super-middleweight<\/a>, many felt \u2018The Hitman\u2019 was unfortunate to come away with only a draw in 1989.<\/p>\n

But still, Hearns ultimately ended his glittering career in 2006 as a five-weight world champion, widely regarded as one of the all-time greats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shane Mosley has named one of the four kings \u2013 Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns, Marvin Hagler and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-429090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429090","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=429090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}