Mayweather/Mosely: The Other Battle
Which Trainer Gives the Best Quotes?
2010-04-22

These days in boxing, sometimes the best show is before the fight. In this bout, we wanted to see which trainer for the Mayweather/Mosely fight, Naziim Richardson (Mosely) or Roger Mayweather has been throwing the best verbal punches. You be the judge with these quotes from a recent trainer press conference:
 
N. Richardson                       
During this drug testing thing, you’re hearing so much about drug testing.  I wanted to know if, I was told that no needles were included, I mean needles of any sort.  I mean, we can’t take a needle anywhere in any way, shape, or form.  You can’t stick needles in your hands.  You can't stick your needles anywhere. I need somebody to give me information on that because people were telling me about something about the deal with lidocaine or something being used in one of the athlete’s hands, and it’s only legal in Las Vegas.  It’s not legal anywhere else.  It’s only legal in Las Vegas, and you can shoot this lidocaine in your hands and whatnot. 
 
Like I said, I come from the ‘hood, and the only ‘caine I want to here is Big Daddy Kane.  I don’t want to hear nothing else about caine in any athlete or anybody else.   
 

N. Richardson                       
Floyd is an exceptional athlete, but like I said before and I’ll say it again.  We sit down to the chess board.  I don’t see your queen moving any faster than my queen.  Your rook can’t take extra moves than my rook can’t take.  Bottom line, I feel as though we’re bringing athletes both that have great attributes to them to the ring, and then they’re both going to have to make adjustments throughout the fight.  I don’t take anything away from this here. The timing is just one of your problems you’re going to face in dealing with Floyd Mayweather, but if you sit there and you try to depict everything you’re going to have to face with him and people start talking about sparring partners.  Who’s going to spar like Floyd Mayweather?  You’re lying to yourself if you say you’ve got somebody that fights like Shane Mosley.  No, you don’t, or they’d be somewhere getting ready for their title. That fighter fights like Floyd Mayweather.  No, you don’t, or this guy would be a legend already..

 
N. Richardson                       
Roger’s an outstanding trainer.  Roger has an opinion.  Roger might like to wear leather pants.  I might like to wear corduroy.  That’s Roger’s opinion.  He has his opinion about Shane’s jab, and it’s going to be his job to do whatever he feels he needs to do.  That’s Roger’s side of the fence.  He has to deal with that.  If you ask me to respond to everything that I hear Mayweather say, I wouldn’t have time to go train my athlete.  I can’t sit around all day and respond to everything that the Mayweather’s are saying and whatnot. When you’re going into fights like this, you’ve got to recognize the personalities, too, and if I realize I learn something from every man I’ve talked to even if I learn not to talk to that man again.  Once I know what I need to learn if I hear you open your mouth and you give me a conversation, I’ve got what I need from you, and then I keep it moving.  That’s what I’m doing right now.  I’ve got to go be with my athlete.  I’m not responding to something someone about my guy and somebody said something about my guy.  I just say that I can't deal with that.  I’ve got to go ahead and have my athlete do what he does. 
 
 
R. Mayweather                     
I don’t rate trainers because, you know what, I don’t rate them because I don’t know what they’re good at.  You get some guys that train.  They don’t even, whether they hold a mitt, they’re good guys in the corner.  They’re good corner men.  They know how to make an adaption to certain things.  Obviously, he must be because Shane Mosley’s one of the top five in the world.  He worked for him, so there has to be something there that he brings to the table.  You start talking to me about what ability that he brings, I don’t know.  I don’t know the ability he brings, but obviously, he brings something.  
 
 
R. Mayweather                     
I tell you what.  If I said it, I’ll say it again.  What I’m telling you is if I said it, I’m going to tell you what I said.  I said this.  Boxing, number one, is all about skill basically when you become a real boxer. I’m not talking about no Sylvester Stallone shit, that shit they show on TV.  That’s bullshit.  When you start talking about real boxing, real boxing takes real skill.  Since you started talking about good fighters and great fighters and what makes a fighter, a fighter has to have certain things that makes him good or makes him great.  The thing of it is Shane could be good as good as he is, and my nephew can be good despite being put on. It has to have some quality to it.  When you start talking about his jab, this, that, and the other, yes, I said something about his jab before.  I said a lot of times he just pulls his jab.  Well, that’s what I said, and I’ll say it again, so what difference does that make?  I understand boxing, so I’m not a guy who’s going to say I didn’t say that behind the guy’s back.  What did that mean what I said.  If I said you don’t jab that well, so what? He’s the one that can make the objection for that.  …
 
Six-time World Champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather and five-time World Champion and current WBA Welterweight World Champion Sugar Shane Mosley, are set to meet on Saturday, May 1 at MGM Grand in Las. The will distributed live on HBO Pay-Per-View® beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.