The boring match last May 7 between pound-for-pound king Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao and "Sugar" Shane Mosley earned a lot of judgment because the fight turned out to be a bit boring.
Pacquiao gave Mosley a first knockdown in their match up at third round, after Mosley taste the force or punches of Pacquiao he acted differently. He used to ind himself in a defensive mode as the fight goes until it end.
But new details about the match – and what happened between the rounds – are coming to light with Showtime's release of the epilogue of Fight Camp 360°: Pacquiao vs. Mosley.
Examiner.com published an article that features a half minute episode and it shows how Mosley acted on their match:
Shane Mosley, in between the rounds of his bout with Pacquiao, wanted to quit.
The video shows Mosley sitting on a stool, pleading with his trainer, Naazim Richardson.
“Come on, you’ve got to stop the fight,” Mosley can be heard telling his trainer.
But Richardson refuses, instead telling his fighter to settle down.
“You’re cut from a different cloth, baby,” Richardson says, trying to encourage his badly overmatched fighter.
Mosley, however, tells his trainer that he can no longer move.
Despite his fighter’s request, Richardson refused to let Mosley quit. He tells the former world champion to “Dig down and fight.”
Mosley has lost the fight by unanimous decision.
More details about the fight will come on June 4 when Showtime releases the full episode.
Meanwhile, Pacquiao’s agent Michael Koncz told Examiner.com that Team Pacquiao was not aware of Mosley’s attempt to quit.
“I was not aware of it and neither was Manny,” said Koncz. He adds that Richardson should have complied with Mosley’s wishes.
“Why wouldn’t the trainer do what the fighter asks him to do?” he said. “I wonder why Richardson did not follow the instructions from his fighter.”
Pacquiao added that if he wanted a fight was stopped, have been followed.
“This is a decision that the great fighters get to make. In this kind of case, I’d have to say that the fighter knows best,” said Koncz.
