‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley is attending Super Bowl week to promote his May 1 super fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. and took the time to catch up with Yahoo Sports. See what he had to say as he prepares to defend his WBA welterweight title.

By Rick Reeno, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 08 Feb 2010
BoxingScene.com was advised by Top Rank CEO Bob Arum that Antonio Margarito’s fight with Carson Jones could be switched to a planned Latin Fury pay-per-view for May 8, which Arum plans to center around the Mexican festivities planned for that week. Margarito has applied for a license to [...]

By Rick Reeno, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 08 Feb 2010
BoxingScene.com spoke with Top Rank CEO Bob Arum about the future of WBC lightweight champion Edwin Valero. The unbeaten puncher from Venezuela made a successful defense of his title on Saturday night in Monterrey, Mexico. Before a hostile Mexcian crowd, Valero, with a huge gash on the right [...]

MANILA, Philippines—Online boxing sites are buzzing with rumors that Joshua Clottey has yet to kick off his training for the biggest fight of his career, with several distractions getting in the way of the New York-based Ghanaian.

If his sparring sessions are any indications, Manny Pacquiao looks scary and dominant. A warning to all potential sparring partners, Pacquiao will hurt you and this should also be a serious concern for Clottey and any future opponent of Pacquiao. Not only is he in great shape, but he is also completely focused. But, will [...]

You must know the old joke about the guy who was so slow that it took him an hour and a half to watch the seminal CBS TV magazine show, “60 Minutes.”

For some Mayweather critics, hell has officially frozen over. Floyd Mayweather Jr has signed the contract to fight Shane Mosley on May 1st. A day that many people thought would never happen, has finally come. But, what took so long? For a fight that was a decade in the making, the contract signing felt like [...]

By Danny Howard, FightHype.com, Thu, 04 Feb 2010
s crazy it sounds, I guess we should be thankful for the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight falling apart. With only three months to promote and prepare for the fight, did you really think there would have been enough time to hype the contest, film a 24/7, travel the country and [...]

Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Shane Mosley are in essence semi-final fights; with the final mega-fight Mayweather vs. Pacquiao the one the media and public really want to see.

By Robert Morales, BoxingScene.com, Thu, 04 Feb 2010
Fear is one emotion that can be detected in someone’s eyes. Honesty is another, and the look in Manny Pacquiao’s eyes in his dressing room Tuesday at his training camp in Hollywood makes his claim of being drug-free very believable. Pacquiao, sitting next to one reporter while another [...]

Floyd Mayweather has signed to fight Shane Mosley in a blockbuster May 1 fight, Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer announced Wednesday, although a couple days of open consternation about the negotiations didn’t sit well with the Grand Rapids boxer’s adviser.

If anything came out good for Floyd Mayweather Jr. after the failed negotiation with Filipino pound-for-pound king Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao, he finally agrees to fight a true welterweight in Pomona, California native Sugar Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO).

After several days of concern over whether Floyd Mayweather Jr. would sign the contract for an agreed-upon showdown with welterweight titleholder Shane Mosley, he put pen to paper on Wednesday and signed the contract, Mosley attorney Judd Burstein told ESPN.com.

It’s a fight a decade in the making, and it’s here: Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Shane Mosley have both signed to fight one another May 1, giving 2010 the best and most important boxing match on its calendar so far.

Freddie Roach has insisted to Telegraph Sport that Manny Pacquiao will fight Shane Mosley if he defeats Floyd Mayweather (although Money is yet to sign the contract) but the four-time trainer of the year believes it is Mayweather’s fight to lose.

The welterweight division at the moment is a mess, there are fighters who move between the weight classes, accusations of cheating in one form or another against nearly all of the top fighters, and bickering promoters limiting the progression and unification of the title holders

By James Blears, BoxingScene.com, Wed, 03 Feb 2010
Legendary US boxing promoter Bob Arum’s message to Ricky Hatton is brief but heartfelt. Asked if Ricky should continue his ring career, after the knockout by Manny Pacquiao, Mr. Arum replied to BoxingScene.com: “It’s not for me to say/ If he was my son, I would say no!” [...]

Sitting on desk in Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer’s office in Los Angeles is Shane Mosley’s signed contract to face Floyd Mayweather on May 1st in Las Vegas. Conspicuously missing, however, is Mayweather’s.

There are cracks forming in the foundation of the relationship between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Golden Boy Promotions. According to numerous sources, Mayweather’s delay in signing the contract to fight Shane Mosley has caused serious frustrations and concerns within Golden Boy Promotions. This tumultuous relationship begs the question, should Golden Boy Promotions part ways with [...]

Amir Khan’s opponent for his American debut is expected to be confirmed in the next 72 hours as Mexican Juan Manuel Márquez, according to Richard Schaefer, CEO of Oscar de le Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions.

FanHouse has learned that Floyd Mayweather is expected to sign his contract today for the May 1 bout against Shane Mosley, cementing their welterweight (147 pounds) clash at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, which is likely to be officially announced today, if not, this week.

Former IBF Welterweight champion Joshua Clottey has described his decision to fight Manny Pacquiao as purely for the title and national pride and not monetary gains as being speculated.

Manny Pacquiao has been named 2009 fighter of the year by The Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA). The Filipino sensation joins an exclusive club of five men who have been awarded the trophy.

Contractual details between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Shane Mosley are slowly trickling out into the media. And to nobody’s surprise, Mayweather Jr has made a lot of demands that have been met by the eager Mosley. Let’s examine further the contractual demands that Mayweather has made which have his critics saying that Mayweather Jr has [...]

If President Obama can extend the olive branch to those Bolshevik-hating elephants, then why can’t I do the same?
I’m calling a 24 moratorium on hate, a one day respite in the endless wars between the Pactoids and the Flomos, the boxing equivalent of those hillbilly rivals the Hatfields and the McCoys.

Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey- On March 13, 2010, The Pac-Man versus The Grand Master From Ghana will truly be ”The Event”. This fight will go down to conditioning and will. Pacquiao is a fighting machine that storms in but can now also operate on you from distance but still with great force.

Juan Manuel Marquez will fight Amir Khan for the WBA junior welterweight title on May 18. Marquez aims to become the only Mexican boxer to win world titles in four different weight divisions.

Floyd Mayweather vs Shane Mosley – must see boxing?

By Cliff Rold, BoxingScene.com, Mon, 01 Feb 2010
As long as they are today’s standard in the subjective world pound for pound ratings, as long as it is certain a bout between Floyd Mayweather (40-0, 25 KO) and Manny Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KO) remains the richest possible in boxing, both warriors will remain connected in a [...]

After signing on to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 1st, ‘Sugar’ Shane Mosley didn’t waste time to let the world know what he felt about his proposed bout.
In an interview with Elie Seckbach of Fanhouse.com recently, Mosley said,