Editing Shane Mosley (section)

====Mosley vs. Álvarez====
In February 2012 it was announced that Mosley would fight 21 year old, highly regarded light middleweight champion [[Canelo Álvarez|Saul "Canelo" Álvarez]] (39-0-1, 29 KOs) on the [[Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto|Mayweather Jr.–Cotto]] PPV undercard on May 5 for the [[List of WBC world champions|WBC light middleweight]] title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Mosely entered with a record of 2-3-1 in his previous six bouts dating back to November 2007. At 40, Mosley was 19 years older than Álvarez. Álvarez was guaranteed $2 million whilst Mosley took the smaller amount of $650,000. Among those in attendance were [[Sugar Ray Leonard]], [[Thomas Hearns]], [[Bernard Hopkins]], and Oscar De La Hoya.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story/_/id/7564673/saul-alvarez-shane-mosley-fight-set-5-las-vegas|title=Alvarez-Mosley fight set for May 5 in Las Vegas|publisher=ESPN|access-date=2017-04-04}}</ref>

The fight went to scorecards with Álvarez winning a one-sided decision with scores of 119–109, 119–109 and 118–110. [[ESPN]] scored the fight wide 118–110 for Álvarez. Álvarez landed more than half the punches he threw (348 of 673). According to CompuBox, it was the most an opponent had landed on Mosley in the 34 fights that they have tracked from his career. Álvarez paid respect to Mosley in the post-fight interview through a translator, "This was a great experience. I felt really good and I want to thank Shane for giving me this experience. He's a great fighter, a true veteran. I tried to knock him out. He took a lot of punches, but it didn't work." Mosley landed 183 of 745 punches (25%). Mosley spoke about stepping back from boxing, "His defense was really good and he was really fast. He can go a long ways. When the kids start to beat you, you might need to start going to promoting. I didn't expect him to be that fast or that good.

Mosley officially retired after this bout, ending his career with a record of 46-8-1, 39 KO's. He went 0-3-1 in his last 4 fights.<ref name="badlefthook.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.badlefthook.com/2012/5/5/3002249/canelo-vs-mosley-results-canelo-dominates-mayweather-vs-cotto-hbo-boxing-news|title=Canelo vs Mosley Results: Canelo Dominates, Possibly Retires Sugar Shane in Near Shutout|date=2012-05-05|website=Bad Left Hook|access-date=2017-04-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story/_/id/7895485/canelo-alvarez-crushes-shane-mosley-decision|title=Canelo drubs Mosley in decision on undercard|publisher=ESPN|access-date=2017-04-04}}</ref>