Mayweather a bridge too far for Sugar Shane

I must admit I thought Floyd Mayweather Jr would cruise to a comfortable points win over 38-year-old 'Sugar' Shane Mosley and well, I wasn't far off. The scorecards at the end of the night reflected Mayweather's dominance with two judges scoring the fight 119 to 109 and a third giving to it to 'Pretty Boy' by a slightly narrower 118 to 110.
But that doesn't tell the whole story. In the second round 'Sugar' Shane landed two sweet right hands that had the self-proclaimed 'best-fighter-in-the-world' wobbling at the knee and holding on. For a brief moment, with the crowd brought to its feet, it looked like the unthinkable might happen. Sadly from Shane Mosley's point-of-view it was not to be and Floyd Mayweather Jr regained his composure and put on the boxing exhibition we'd all expected of him. Slick, quick, a master of the defensive arts, Mayweather got on his bike and slipped in and out of range with consummate ease. The 14 months since Sugar Shane demolished Antonio Margarito seemed to have aged him 14 years and he tired rapidly after his second round heroics came to nothing.
But for all his dominance Mayweather never really looked like finishing off Mosley inside the distance and I'd be inclined to agree with Manny Pacquiao's assessment of the fight. No one has really taken Mayweather into the trenches and tested his fighting heart in the way that I believe Pacquiao certainly would.
That fight now has to happen. There can be no more delays, false-starts or fudges. Fight fans deserve to see the world's two greatest fighters - two of the greatest ever - going head-to-head. If Floyd Mayweather's blocking tactics were intended to raise the stakes (and I believe that is exactly what 'Money Man' intended) then it's worked. Expectations ahead of a fight with Pacquiao are at fever-pitch. When seasoned boxing writers like Kevin Mitchell in The Guardian are comparing it to another Ali-Frazier, you know we're in for a treat.