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26.01.09, 01:59
LOS ANGELES – Speed is the difference at the highest level of nearly every professional sport.
Never was that more evident than in Saturday’s championship welterweight boxing match at Staples Center, where Shane Mosley was always at least two gears ahead of defending champion Antonio Margarito.
Margarito had an arena-record crowd of 20,820 overwhelmingly in his favor, but Mosley’s stunningly wide advantage in hand speed was such that it, and not the throaty crowd, was the difference in the fight for the WBA title.
Mosley (46-5) stopped Margarito at 43 seconds of the ninth after battering him around the ring for most of the night in what turned out to be an unexpectedly one-sided affair. Judge James Jen-Kin scored it a shutout for Mosley, 80-71. Max DeLuca scored it 79-72, the same as Yahoo! Sports. Nelson Vazquez had it 78-73.
Mosley blisters heavy-handed Margarito (http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news;_ylt=AjTaCbhZ7WmhHRGxujsxOd6UxLYF?slug=ki-mosleywins012409&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)
Never was that more evident than in Saturday’s championship welterweight boxing match at Staples Center, where Shane Mosley was always at least two gears ahead of defending champion Antonio Margarito.
Margarito had an arena-record crowd of 20,820 overwhelmingly in his favor, but Mosley’s stunningly wide advantage in hand speed was such that it, and not the throaty crowd, was the difference in the fight for the WBA title.
Mosley (46-5) stopped Margarito at 43 seconds of the ninth after battering him around the ring for most of the night in what turned out to be an unexpectedly one-sided affair. Judge James Jen-Kin scored it a shutout for Mosley, 80-71. Max DeLuca scored it 79-72, the same as Yahoo! Sports. Nelson Vazquez had it 78-73.
Mosley blisters heavy-handed Margarito (http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news;_ylt=AjTaCbhZ7WmhHRGxujsxOd6UxLYF?slug=ki-mosleywins012409&prov=yhoo&type=lgns)