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In a shocker which is sure to send shock waves throughout the boxing world, Shane Mosley (46-5, 39KO) stopped Antonio Margarito (37-6, 27KO) in the ninth round of a scheduled twelve with a barrage of right hands. Mosley controlled the majority of the rounds, winning the majority if not all of them with a picture perfect game plan of boxing from the outside and clinching in the inside to slow down the much bigger Margarito. Margarito never looked to be in the fight even as he withstood hard inside uppercuts and right hands from Mosley in the beginning rounds. “Sugar” Shane Mosley is crowned as the new WBA welterweight champion.  Â
By Francisco Salazar the Round by Round
ROUND NINE
Margarito looks done as he is battered by Mosley. Referee Raul Caiz waves it off in round nine. Time: :43.
ROUND EIGHT
Nice counter right hand by Margarito. He follows it up with another right hand. Margarito is dominating round until right hand by Mosley hurts Margarito. Mosley lands barrage of punches until Margarito is dropped to the canvas. Margarito gets up on wobbly legs. The bell sounds to end the round.
ROUND SEVEN
Mosley staying on outside, jabbing away. Setting up rights as Margarito attempts to land. Margarito does land a handful of right hands to the head of Mosley towards the end of the round. Not enough to offset Mosley’s offense. Mosley 10-9
ROUND SIX
Margarito is starting to slow down slightly. Mosley is still effectively countering with right hands to the head. Margarito does land a hard right to the head of Mosley. Seconds later, Mosley fires back with a hard shot to the head. Mosley 10-9
ROUND FIVE
Margarito is becoming more aggressive. He is landing more uppercuts, but no where what Mosley is landing. Mosley still landing hard right hands to the head. Nice counter left to the head by Mosley. Mosley 10-9
ROUND FOUR
Nice jabs by Mosley to open the fourth round. Nice uppercut by Margarito. Mosley counters with hard right to head. Mosley looking to set up again with more jabs. Margarito is looking for any openings. Two hard right hands to head score for Mosley. Both fighters tie up. Hard right by Mosley puctuates round. Mosley 10-9.
ROUND THREE
Mosley is setting up counter right hands behind a jab. Margarito is still moving forward. More hard right hands to the head, to which Margarito smiles a. Nice jabs by Margarito. Right hand momentarily stuns Margarito at the end of the round. Mosley 10-9 After three, Fightnews.com scores the bout 30-27
ROUND TWO
Mosley starts the round jabbing. Counter right hand lands flush on Margarito. Both fighters constantly tie up. Margarito is attempting to counter. Mosley set up a nice left hook to the body. Both fighters are given a warning by Caiz. Mosley 10-9
ROUND ONE
Both fighters come straight forward. Mosley is extraordinarily busy and aggressive. Mosley sneaks in a hard right hand to the head. Margarito complains to Caiz about Mosley butting him. Margarito is still coming forward. Mosley’s round.
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In his first bout under the Golden Boy Promotions banner, Robert Guerrero (23-1-1, 16 KO’s) stopped Edel Ruiz (31-22-4, 22 KO’s) in the first round. A hard left hook to the body ended matters at 43 seconds as referee Jack Reiss stopped the bout. A two-time world champion at the featherweight limit, Guerrero is now campaigning at 130 pounds. This was his first fight in 11 months.
Photos by Chris Cozzone and Tom Hogan
Yeah I’m thinking about buying floor or plaza 208, but so far no one that I know wants to go with me, don’t wanna go alone. Well everyone though Margarito was going to KO Mosley and we know what happened, I really think Angulo is going to demolish Mayorga but who knows lol it’s crazy out there.
I will be there at ringside or in the stands. Credentials are waiting. The reporters at the press conference Saturday talked about Arce and his bad hands. They all picked Vic so I get what you are saying about Mexican fighters getting beat lately. Angulo will kill Mayorga though or so I hope.
Well I’m still thinking about going, I just checked and looks like there are lots of tickets left, I do want to see DeMarco he seems like a very good prospect, but I truly think Arce will get KO and I still need to recuperate from that mental beating I got last Saturday lol, don’t really want another one, are you going to see it? got thickets already?
I would be truly pissed if Izzy does not fight again. I hope he comes back as strong as ever and regains his form. I had a room of people over who did not really know him when he fought Jhonny Gonzalez and his comeback KO in that fight made the entire room Izzy fans for life. The Marquez trilogy is one of the best.
Are you going to go to Anaheim to see the fights? DeMarco is on the card, another great Tijuana fighter.
Thanks for the link, I knew he had an retina operation, but I didn’t knew it was this bad. On the latest updates in Spanish part in his page his eye doctor gave him the OK and and he will keep on fighting, looks like he will be back somewhere around May or June.
Margarito needs a gooooood rest but I don’t think he got really hurt, I mean he was hurt in the fight but I think he’ll be alright, the guy can take punches but he can’t keep on taking shots like that all the time that’s for sure
TijuanaBoxing,
http://www.israel-vazquez.com/pages/home.html
You may have this link but it disusses his repeated eye operations and Frank’s intent to keep him out of the ring until he is 100%. I bet he returns.
Izzy had a detached retina and it is rumored he may not fight again. He had an operation to correct it but his promotor is cautious. During the Arce/Darchinyian presser Frank Espinoza mentioned he has not been able to make the 4th fight yet and he is starting to think Izzy may hang them up. Not good news but he went through hell and Marquez is not scheduled to fight soon either.
What do you mean by Vazquez being done?
Margarito needs a good rest, he’ll be back, but he really needs to change his strategy, he can’t be walking in through punches with faster fighters like Mosley and with Cotto if he fights him again, Mosley just put out a blue print into how to beat him, he needs to start moving, but it’s kinda hard for old fighters to change they way they box. Margarito and his camp sould have known he was not going to fight like Cotto, Mosley was to start, never leating Tony pick up momentum, holding him down and clinching after punches and never staying in the ropes.
I still don’t know if Mosley will be able to look this good against other welterweights, Marg didn’t know what to do and tough that pressure was going to break into Mosley’s. Maybe now we can have Mosley vs Pacquiao? anything can happen.
Whats next for Mosley – should it be Cotto II? Does a Cotto – Margs rematch make sense now? I think Margs needs a lot of time to heal his hands, eyes, what ever hurts and then re-evaluate his career. Health comes first. Hell, Cotto may not be the same either. I heard yesterday that Izzy Vazquez may be done due to the effects of his wars!!!
Mosley was the best, I saw what he was doing early in the rounds, grabbing Margarito a lot, with that he didn’t let Margarito put on that pressure and then he landed shot after shot, to quick, to sharp and to good, no doubt Margarito has a incredible chin, he was getting hit by huge shot all over the place, it was sad to see this one live, oh well, Mosley was perfect tonight.
Wow, I don’t know if Margs will ever be the same.
Mosley plain a nice game plan, he follow the game plan and won,.
OMG what a fight Mosley put out.. My Margarito just couldn’t compare to Mosley’s quickness in the ring.
It was horrible seeing him down like that in the 8th and when the fight stopped in the 9th round.
Over all – Mosley deserves the win!
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