Las Vegas Weekly

April 30, 2010 · 10:31 AM

Photos: Mayweather-Mosley showdown looms after weigh-in at MGM Grand

By Robin Leach

The Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Shane Mosley weigh-in at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 30, 2010.

Photo: Tom Donoghue/www.donoghuephotography.com

Everybody from Hollywood to New York stars is arriving on the Strip for tomorrow night’s sensational showdown between Floyd “Moneyman” Mayweather Jr. and archrival “Sugar” Shane Mosley. The 12-round battle for the welterweight championship is set for MGM Grand Garden Arena, and you’ll see a star-studded lineup at ringside.

Cast members of HBO’s Entourage led by Jeremy Piven will be headquartered at the Palms, and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs is set to throw his after-fight party at Eva Longoria Parker’s Eve the Nightclub above her restaurant Beso in Crystals at MGM’s CityCenter. Sisters Paris and Nicky Hilton will be attending the fight on a third weekend of Las Vegas fun in just five weeks.

Incredibly, Floyd has already planned his triumphant official celebration party at Studio 54 in MGM Grand with a midnight red-carpet arrival. The six-time champion with an unblemished record of 40-0 plans to celebrate his renowned career and a bright future with yet another victory, ensuring his recognition by ESPN as “one of the top boxers of all time.”

Floyd boasted on the HBO show 24/7 recently that he is a better fighter than both Sugar Ray Robinson and Muhammad Ali: “Sugar Ray is one hell of a fighter. Ali is one hell of a fighter, but Floyd Mayweather is the best.”

Shane comes into the fight with 39 knockouts to his credit on his 46-5 score sheet. Floyd last fought Juan Marquez after a nearly two-year hiatus from the sport. Check out the latest reports from our boxing expert friends at the Las Vegas Sun who covered the press conferences of the two fighters. VDLX reader Richard Corey posted his videos of the press conferences on YouTube.

Our contributing photographer Tom Donoghue was on duty for the boxers’ arrivals at MGM Grand and will be back this afternoon for the official weigh-in photos. We’ll update this report with the weigh-in photos, so be sure to check back. Tom also will be ringside tomorrow night, and we’ll post his always-extraordinary fight shots Sunday when we report P. Diddy’s platinum party.

Updated @5:02 p.m.: The weigh-in crowd was more than 6,000 at 2 p.m. at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Floyd tipped the scales at 146 pounds, and Shane was 147 pounds.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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