“It didn't matter who they put out in front of me - especially with the determination I had back then to become a world champion, to become a legendary fighter and all that stuff. My hunger was just too great for those other lightweights to mess with me.”

American former professional boxer

Shane Mosley, known as “Sugar” Shane Mosley, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2016. He won world titles in three weight classes and is listed among the sport’s leading names of his era. He held the IBF lightweight title, the WBA (Super) and WBC welterweight titles, and the WBA (Super), WBC, and The Ring light middleweight titles. He was also a lineal champion at welterweight twice and at light middleweight, a record that reflects his long run at the top level.