Sugar Shane Mosley Gets A New Title Chance
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Glendale, Arizona (May 16th, 2016)– Sugar Shane Mosley is a former lightweight, welterweight and super welterweight world champion. On Saturday, May 28, 2016, in the main event at Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona, Mosley will fight for the interim World Boxing Association World Welterweight championship in his sixtieth pro bout. His opponent, the current interim WBA champion, David Avanesyan, is a 27 year old from Pyatigorsk, Russia, with a professional record of 21-1-1 with 11 knockouts. Hailing from Pomona, California, Mosley’s record is 49-9-1 with 41 knockouts, meaning he has knocked out more than two of every three opponents in a 22 year career which began in 1993. Outside of Russia, Avanesyan has been seen twice in the ring elsewhere, in the United Kingdom and once in Monaco, but never in the United States.
How did Mosley qualify for a WBA world championship opportunity bout at age 44? Last Last December, Mosley came back again and stopped 23-5 Venezuelan fighter Patrick Lopez in the tenth and final round of a ten rounder at Arena Roberto Duran in Panama City, winning the vacant WBA Continental Super Welterweight title. Winning the WBA regional belt qualified Mosley for the interim world title opportunity. Sugar Shane is coming back down to the 147 pound welterweight class to fight for the titular opportunity.
Shane Mosley’s dance in the welterweight division ended its tune years ago. Yet Mosley somehow always finds that comeback win, sufficient enough to find another title payday with someone somewhere. Mosley is the last in the line of sugars. Sugar Ray Robinson. Sugar Ray Seales. Sugar Ray Leonard. Bert Sugar. Sugar Ramos. Sugar Ray Clay Jones Jr. AKA Anthony Smalls. Rashad ‘Suga’ Evans. These are and were the fighters of sugar.
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