Shane Mosley has urged a former world champion to walk away from the sport for good.
Mosley had an impressive professional career of his own, spanning across 23 years between between 1993 and 2016.
He won world titles in three weight classes throughout the course of his tenure, including the unified WBC and WBA light-middleweight titles which he captured back in 2003.
Mosley enjoyed the bulk of his success during the late 1990s through to the early 2000s where he picked up two victories over the legendary Oscar De La Hoya, as well as defeating the likes of Fernando Vargas, Ricardo Mayorga and Antonio Margarito later on in his career.
One fighter who is looking to build a legacy of his own is YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul, who returned to the ring with a victory against former WBC world middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr on Saturday night.
After giving plaudits to Paul’s efforts against Chavez in an interview with Fight Hub TV, Mosley goes on to criticise the performance of the 39-year-old Mexican as he urges him to draw the curtain on what has been an underwhelming professional career.
“Junior on the other hand, he didn’t throw any punches until the third or fourth round or something, he was kind of just walking forward and I don’t know what he was doing, it was weird, it was weird to see that type of fighting but that’s not Jake Paul’s fault, Jake Paul did what he needed to do and he won and he looked good.”
“Junior needs to retire from here. I mean, if you can’t throw any punches in two, three, four rounds you need to retire. What are you doing? You basically just living off your father’s name, that’s basically what you’re doing because you didn’t even fight.”
It remains to be seen whether Chavez will take Mosley’s advice and finally hang his gloves up following that disappointing performance against Paul, which has got the boxing world talking over the last few days.
As for Paul. the 28-year-old from Cleveland has set his sights on securing himself a world title shot, as he targets a showdown with either Gilberto Ramirez or Badou Jack, who hold three out of the four world cruiserweight titles between them.
