Mosley delivers last-second knockout of Mayorga
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — American Shane Mosley knocked Nicaraguan Ricardo Mayorga out with one second left in the 12th round, unleashing a left hook to the head in their non-title super welterweight fight.
The 37-year-old Mosley floored Mayorga twice in a final round demolition Saturday, closing the deal with a flurry of punches in a temporary outdoor boxing ring at the Home Depot Centre.
He connected on a left-right combination for the first knockdown as Mayorga got up at the count of seven.
Mayorga should have stayed down. Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) waded in as the referee was finishing his count and decked Mayorga with a short left hook on the next punch.
"I closed the show," Mosley said of the fight between two former world champions. "I got the knockout."
Mayorga, 35, pressed the attack in the first three rounds before Mosley took over. The turning point came in the sixth when Mosley landed several solid rights that hurt the unorthodox Mayorga who had a 10-pound weight advantage.
"I could feel him getting weaker," said Mosley of Mayorga who played to the pro-Mosley crowd despite getting noticeably weaker in the later rounds.
"He was trying to play like he was strong. He might have stole some rounds here and there but I wanted to go for the knockout."
At least one of the ringside judge's didn't agree and had Mayorga ahead on points heading into the final round.
Mosley's last fight before Saturday was in November of last year, when he dropped a 12-round unanimous decision to Miguel Cotto.
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