Editing Shane Mosley (section)

====Mosley vs. Mayweather====
{{Main|Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Shane Mosley}}
It was announced that on May 1, 2010, Mosley would fight undefeated [[Floyd Mayweather Jr.]] Boxing purists had called for the fight for over ten years. Mosley was scheduled to fight [[List of WBC world champions|WBC champion]] [[Andre Berto]] in a unification fight, but Berto had to pull out after an [[2010 Haiti earthquake|Earthquake in Haiti]] killed some of his family members.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.boxingnews24.com/2010/01/mayweather-vs-mosley-announcement-imminent-news/amp/|title=Mayweather vs. Mosley announcement imminent – News » Boxing News|date=2010-01-28|work=Boxing News 24|access-date=2017-10-08|language=en-US}}</ref> Mosley's WBA title was not on the line because Mayweather refused to pay WBA sanctioning fees.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/335830-floyd-mayweather-and-shane-mosley-agree-to-terms-to-fight-may-1-2010|title=Floyd Mayweather and Shane Mosley Agree to Fight on May 1, 2010|last=Holloway|first=Clayton|work=Bleacher Report|access-date=2017-10-08|language=en-US}}</ref> On the fight night, Mosley stunned Mayweather with two right-hand shots in the second round. Mayweather recovered well and dominated the remainder of the fight with superior reflexes and his effective counter-punching style, eventually beating Mosley in a wide decision 119–109, 119–109, and 118–110 on the scorecards to win Mosley's ''lineal'' welterweight championship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/sports/boxing/columns/story?id=5155050&columnist=rafael_dan|title='Money' silences critics with dazzling display|date=2010-05-02|website=ESPN.com|access-date=2017-02-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story/_/id/7160303/floyd-mayweather-victor-ortiz-fight-drives-more-one-million-buys|title=Mayweather-Ortiz fight drives 1.25 million buys|newspaper=ESPN.com|access-date=2017-02-06}}</ref>

On May 22, 2010, Mosley was stripped of his WBA (Super) welterweight title, due to not making a mandatory defense, which in turn made WBA Champion [[Vyacheslav Senchenko]] the sole WBA titlist in the welterweight division.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.boxingscene.com/shane-mosley-stripped-senchenko-full-wba-champ--27982|title=Shane Mosley is Stripped, Senchenko Full WBA Champ – Boxing News|website=www.boxingscene.com|date=May 21, 2010 |language=en-us|access-date=2017-02-06}}</ref>