Mr. Money Bags

The old dog tried a new trick. In the second round of his fight with Shane Mosley, Floyd Mayweather Jr. mixed it up in the ring for a minute. Rocked by a hard right "Pretty Boy's" knees buckled and it looked as though what many had hoped would happen would come to fruition.

"It would be unfair to expect "Money" to stand in the middle of the ring and slug it out with "Sugar" Shane. He is not that type of boxer, and he would get killed." - D-train Daily, 4-30, "A Mouth Made of Money"

Well shut our mouth!

Mayweather not only withstood the punishment, but went on to dominate. He won every round but the eventful second. In fact by the ninth round it was "Money" who was moving forward and Mosley was the one backing up.

Mayweather masterfully executed the fundamental purpose of boxing: hit and don't get hit. He doused Mosley with punches landing 208 of 477 punches to 92 of 452 for Mosley. It was an impressive display by perhaps the best technical fighter of this generation. Mayweather said earlier this week that he not Muhammad Ali is the greatest. Saturday he fought like a boxer who wanted to be known as such and not as a good boxer.

However, the opponent was Shane Mosley; hardly worthy of the moniker that was used previously by two legends (Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard). Is it us here at the D-train or is this guy always smiling? Mosley's incessant grinning just does not suit a boxer.

Mosley said before the fight that Mayweather chose him as the replacement opponent for Manny Pacquiao because he was the best fight for Floyd. And he was right. Mosley's past association with BALCO and his admission that he took "the cream" and "the clear" before his career's biggest victory over Oscar De La Hoya helps lend creedence to Mayweather's argument about Pacquiao.

Now, instead of it appearing as though Mayweather is ducking "Pac Man", the pride of the Phillipines will have to prove he is clean if he wants the fight to happen.

"I never knew a guy that didn't wanna take a 25 million dollar drug test." - Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Otherwise Paquiao vs. Mayweather will be titled, "What should have been."

This is so complicated. It used to be that what was ruining boxing was simply Don King's patented brand of greed and corruption!