Shane Mosley vs. Luis Collazo

Shane Mosley vs. Luis Collazo, billed as the Battle at the Bay, was a professional boxing match contested on February 10, 2007 for the WBC interim welterweight title.^[1]

Battle at the Bay

Date	February 10, 2007
Venue	Mandalay Bay Events Center, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
Title(s) on the line	WBC "interim" welterweight title
Tale of the tape
Boxer Shane Mosley Luis Collazo Nickname Sugar God's Way Hometown Pomona, California, U.S. Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Purse $1,000,000 Pre-fight record 43–4 (1) (37 KO) 27–2 (13 KO) Age 35 years, 5 months 25 years, 9 months Height 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) Weight 147 lb (67 kg) 147 lb (67 kg) Style Orthodox Southpaw Recognition WBC No. 1 Ranked Welterweight WBO No. 2 Ranked Welterweight WBA/IBF No. 2 Ranked Light Middleweight The Ring No. 1 Ranked Light Middleweight 3-division world champion WBA No. 1 Ranked Welterweight WBC/WBO No. 3 Ranked Welterweight IBF No. 9 Ranked Welterweight The Ring No. 5 Ranked Welterweight Former WBA welterweight champion
Result
Mosley wins via 12–round unanimous decision (119–108, 118–109, 118–109)

Background

It was announced in late December 2006 that three-division world champion Shane Mosley would be leaving the light middleweight division, which he had competed in for the majority of the previous four years, to return to the welterweight division to challenge Kermit Cintrón for the IBF welterweight title. The fight was scheduled for February 10, 2007, and was to be Cintrón's first defense of the IBF welterweight title that he had won in October 2006 after besting Mark Suárez.^[2]

However, just days after the announcement, Cintrón, who had agreed to fight but not officially signed a contract, pulled out of the bout, citing issues with his promoter Bobby Bostick, who had offered to give Cintrón just $250,000 of the $750,000 purse offered by Golden Boy Promotions, who promoted Mosely. This led to Golden Boy Promotions quickly pivoting and reaching a deal with former World Boxing Association welterweight champion Luis Collazo and his promoter Don King. The fight would held for the WBC interim welterweight title as the regular title holder, Floyd Mayweather Jr., was moving up to light middleweight to face Oscar De La Hoya in May and this would be unable to defend the belt for most of the year.^[3]

Fight Details

Mosley would score an extremely lopsided victory, winning all but two rounds (118–109) on two of the judge's scorecards and all but one on the third (119–108). Mosley would punctuate his victory at the end of the fight during the penultimate eleventh round, scoring the lone knockdown as he sent an off-balance Collazo on the seat of his pants with a right hand to the head during the closing seconds of the round. Collazo admitted that he injured his left hand early in the third round which hampered the southpaw for the remainder of the fight, who only landed 14% of his thrown punches, landing just 87 of 639. Mosley, meanwhile, landed 200 punches during the bout, more than double the amount of punches landed by Collazo.^[4]

Fight card

Confirmed bouts:^[5]

Weight Class	Weight		vs.		Method	Round	Notes
Welterweight	147 lbs.	Shane Mosley	def.	Luis Collazo	UD	12	note 1
Super Lightweight	140 lbs.	Vivian Harris	def.	Juan Lazcano	UD	12	note 2
Super Featherweight	130 lbs.	Billy Dib	def.	Carlos Contreras	UD	10
Light Middleweight	154 lbs.	Jose Angel Rodriguez	def.	Cesar Valentin	TKO	3/6
Super Middleweight	168 lbs.	Craig McEwan	def.	Isidro Arreola	TKO	4/4
Welterweight	147 lbs.	Leon Green	def.	Bryan Mullis	UD	4

^Note 1 For WBC Interim Welterweight Title
^Note 2 WBC Super Lightweight Title Eliminator

Broadcasting

Country	Broadcaster
United States	HBO