Mayweather Paints a Picasso
Mon 3-May-2010
By Steve Kim
For a brief spell, Shane Mosley had the crowd on its feet and buzzing; he had just hit Floyd Mayweather with a blistering right hand in the second round that had shook the native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday night. It was stunning to see Mayweather hurt to any degree, much less hit with a clean, hard punch. An emboldened Mosley followed up with a barrage of punches before Mayweather rallied back with his own late flurry to finish the stanza.
But the second inning was Mayweather’s. The bout was deadlocked at one round apiece and the momentum seemed to be in Mosley’s favor. The fight was on.
Only it wasn’t.
For him, it had just concluded. This then became a “Floyd fight.”
It would be about the only time that Mosley would win a round, as he was systematically dismantled by Mayweather, from then on. Roy Halladay couldn’t have pitched a better game than Mayweather did, this past weekend at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. From the third frame on, this became a surgical dissection, and this highly anticipated match-up became a rout, with Mayweather winning by the scores of 119-109 (twice) and 118-110.