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\"Manny<\/p>\n

Pacquiao made Mosley look every one of his 39 years<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Manny Pacquiao dominated from the first bell to the last to score a unanimous points decision over Shane Mosley and retain his WBO welterweight title.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A huge odds-on pre-fight favourite, Pacquiao had 39-year-old Mosley down in the third round and came close to being the first boxer to stop the American.<\/p>\n

And although Mosley bravely hung on the Filipino was handed a 119-108, 120-108, 120-107 verdict in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

“He felt my power,” Pacquiao said. “I did my best to give a good fight.”<\/p>\n

Going into the fight, Mosley had promised the contest would show off two warriors but after the initial sparring the American spent almost the entirety of the fight in retreat.<\/p>\n

Filipino Pacquiao floored Mosley with a straight left in the third and continued the assault through the middle rounds, with a Mosley right hook in the sixth one of the few notable ripostes.<\/p>\n

And by the eighth round the 32-year-old Pacquiao had forced Mosley into a full defensive mode, the American’s tactics prompting boos from sections of the 16,000 crowd at the MGM Grand Hotel.<\/p>\n

With Mosley determined to retain a proud record of never being stopped in 54 fights (46-7-1) the latter rounds followed a predictable pattern, Pacquiao attacking, Mosley doing just enough to stay competitive in referee Kenny Bayless’ mind.<\/p>\n

There was one moment of concern for six-weight world champion Pacquiao when he was adjudged to have been put down in the 10th although his journey to the canvas appeared to have been aided by a slip.<\/p>\n

Either way, the incident did nothing to stop the champion’s dominance and he finished the fight with Mosley up against the ropes, hanging on for the final bell against a fighter he admitted was the best he had faced.<\/p>\n

“You can’t blame age,” Mosley said.<\/p>\n

“Manny is an exceptional fighter. He truly is the pound-for-pound king. He has speed and power that I have never felt before.<\/p>\n

“He surprised me with that power with the knockdown. That’s the most legitimate knockdown on me in a long time.”<\/p>\n

Pacquiao, who improved his record to 53-3-2 in winning his 14th straight bout, added: “Mosley is not slow,” Pacquiao said. “He’s fast and I had to be cautious of his counter-punch.”<\/p>\n

And asked about the prospect of a fight against unbeaten American Floyd Mayweather to finally determine the world’s greatest pound-for-pound boxer he said: “I don’t care about that fight.<\/p>\n

“I am satisfied with everything that I have done in boxing.”<\/p>\n

But while Pacquiao was evasive over his future plans, trainer Freddie Roach said he favoured a third meeting with long-time rival Juan Manuel Marquez.<\/p>\n

The pair drew on their first meeting in 2004 before Pacquiao won a controversial points decision in 2008, a verdict which Marquez refers to as a ‘robbery’.<\/p>\n

“I hate it when he (Marquez) says that he was robbed because there was no robbery in either fight,” said Roach.<\/p>\n

“They were very close fights and could have gone either way. So I would love to fight him one more time just to shut him up, I really would.<\/p>\n

“If Mayweather doesn’t come to the table, I think Marquez is going to be our next opponent because we are running out of opponents. He is sellable.<\/p>\n

“The Mexican market is huge in boxing and they would love to see that fight one more time.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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