Saturday night, a month’s worth of trash talk and hype culminated with a showdown between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Sugar Shane Mosley. The fight wound up a one-sided affair, but even so, SB Nation’s Andrew Sharp says the show was as good as ever. Read on for photo’s from the spectacle before, during, and after the fight. (All photos used courtesy of Getty Images).
The Boxing Blockbuster Is Not Dead: Photos From Saturday’s Mayweather-Mosley Show
They only happen once or twice a year, but even in the year the 2010, with a 1,000 different voices touting the sport’s demise, there’s just nothing like a bigtime boxing match.
The press conferences, the electricity beforehand, the celebrities, the fight... Nothing’s better. And this past Saturday, we got one of those nights. Two big-name fighters, all sorts of back-and-forth during the buildup, a sea of celebrities ringside, and for me, about 1,000 people crowded into a bar, buzzing for about three hours straight—before, during, and after the fight. The whole experience is what makes boxing so special.
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