He never beat Mosley. In fact, Mosely was the one that stopped him twice. Mayorga beat Andrew Lewis & Vernon Forrest twice at Welterweight to collect the WBA & WBC titles. He then fought for undisputed and he lost. Then he moved up in weight.
I’m not reaching with anything. Mayorga was once the consensus best Welterweight in the world and has an 0-3-0, 1 NC record in MMA. The guy I replied to said this which is objectively false and you are seemingly defending his statement:
You're counting a shot 40 year old smoker & alcoholic. That's the definition of reaching. Then you said that Mayorga was undisputed and he never was. He was welterweight lineal champion for only a matter of months until he faced a 5-to-1 underdog that took it from him and the undisputed title (WBA, WBC & IBF titles were all on the line).
I'm arguing against someone that I've already proved wrong. Notice the only person providing context, the fine details that you conveniently left out, is me. Mayorga was the #1 rated welterweight in 2003 and he lost that distinction the very same year to Cory Spinks who was a big underdog. Now fast forward 10 years, after Mayorga was already a 40 year old shot fighter, this is when he transitioned to MMA.
Nah. Mayorga was the busier man but Mosley outlanded him in total punches in all but a single round. Look at their total punch accuracy as well. Mayorga only landed 12% of his total punches. Mosley was 3x as accurate.
really, thats not how i remember the fight?
Yes. Even looking at power punches landed Mosley outlanded him 7 rounds to 3 (2 rounds were dead even). Mosley literally beat him in every single statistical category there is apart from punch output: Total connects, jabs, and power connects. His accuracy was also much higher across the board.
It was funny. Thomas also clearly milked it. Laughably bad acting on his part.
I'm not your "son" Stewart. Ever heard of a straw man argument? It's fallacious reasoning and you're making one right now. My point was simply that all of the top boxers that crossed over were washed by then. They were irrelevant in boxing and 40+ years old. Mercer was closer to 50.
There have been a lot of MMA fighters that have switched to boxing over the years. How convenient of you to label them all old. Guys like Aldo, Jeremy Stephens, and Pettis were only 36. That's still mid 30s.
You keep saying that but where's your proof? Go look up what Lesnar earned under the UFC. Guy is one of the best known WWE wrestlers of the past 25 years and reportedly the highest paid one (12 mil a year and that's while working sporadically. Dude is a part timer).
Only fight I saw was him kneeing a guy in the back, and winning, but it being turned over because he kneed him in the back.
