"I called him out before Marquez. I called him before, but nobody heard me...when he was coming up, he was calling everybody out. He would say the same thing. He was calling out everybody, taking microphones and doing all kinds of crazy stuff. Now when it's done to him, he gets all defensive; he gets all scared and cries like a little baby," stated welterweight champion Shane Mosley as talked about the confrontation he had with Floyd Mayweather Jr. immediately following Floyd's lopsided victory over Juan Manuel Marquez this past weekend.
Speaking to FightHype earlier today, Mosley recalled what happened during the confrontation. "All Max did was say there was another welterweight fighter out there by the name of Shane Mosley and that just through Floyd for a loop. I think Floyd's a little intimidated and afraid of me and he doesn't really want to fight me. He wants to jump around and fight these little guys. He wants to fight Marquez and he's hoping Pacquiao will win so he can go and fight Pacquiao and then he'll go back into retirement," he commented.
Obviously, Mayweather wasn't too happy about the confrontation, accusing Mosley of being disrespectful by trying to steal the spotlight after his victory. Mosley responded to the accusation by stating, "There wasn't no shine. It was a snoozer and Floyd should be ashamed of beating up the lightweight champion of the world and really, he's not even a lightweight. He's really a jr. lightweight." Regarding Mayweather's actual performance, Mosley was less than impressed given the fact that Mayweather was fighting a naturally smaller opponent. "It looks like he still has some speed and snap. I mean, I'll just be real, he's a talented fighter. He does good things, but it's hard to tell anything when you're fighting somebody so small," he remarked.
Mosley, however, did give credit to Marquez, who was at a disadvantage the minute he agreed to the fight. "He goes up to 142, loses his speed, loses his snap, loses his power, because he hits harder when he's at 135 than he does at 142, I mean, all of these disadvantages, he was just at a disadvantage from the jump. He did everything he could do, he fought his heart out, went the distance with the guy, I mean, come on. Margarito didn't even go the distance with me. He went the distance with Floyd," Mosley added, taking the time to get in another shot at Mayweather.
"I know his style. I know what he's going to do and I know what he's going to try and do and I'm ready to capitalize on it," Mosley remarked as he made it clear that he's eager to step in the ring with Mayweather as soon as possible. Check out the full interview to see what else he had to say about Mayweather's performance, their confrontation, his own future plans and much more.
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