Besieged by outside-the-ring problems, “Sugar” Shane Mosley never let them bother him, at least publicly.
Instead, he carried himself with a quiet confidence
throughout the buildup to his fight with Antonio Margarito.
And when they finally got into the ring Saturday at the Staples Center, with a record crowd of 20,820 going crazy — and mostly cheering for Margarito — it seemed as though Mosley let whatever frustration that may have built up inside of him out on Margarito.
It was a thrashing.
A destruction.
There was a knockdown in the eighth round.
And a knockout 43 seconds into the ninth round, a round in which the Sugarman closed the show by outlanding Margarito a staggering 21-0.
