Collazo wants to tattoo Mosley

By Lance Pugmire

Brooklyn fighter says its time for the champion from Pomona to "pass the torch" to him.

Shane Mosley is fighting a recent champion who's 10 years younger, a tricky southpaw who claims the time has come for the 35-year-old boxer from Pomona to "pass the torch."

Brooklyn's Luis Collazo said this week that former three-division champion Mosley is no longer "at his prime," and estimated the veteran is "80%" of the fighter he was earlier this decade when he handed Oscar De La Hoya two losses.

"My speed, my ability to move, my combinations — I think I'll come out with a decision," Collazo predicted of Saturday night's interim World Boxing Council welterweight championship fight at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.

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