By Edgar Gonzalez / Photos: Big Joe Miranda
Not many boxers like to fight the way former three-time world champion Ricardo “El Matador” Mayorga does. He brings the reckless abandon and fearlessness of a teenager in a street brawl. Mayorga (28-6-1, 22 KOs) is very awkward and his strategy is simple: just come forward, winging big shots with the ability to knock anyone out.

Four-time world champion Sugar Shane Mosley (44-5, 37 KOs) will be the next tangle with the Nicaraguan strongman. That bout is set for September 27th at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California.

“I brought a gift for Shane today, a pair of Pink boxing gloves to match his Pink trunks he will be wearing on September 27, better yet he could be my little green-eye girlfriend,” supreme provocateur Mayorga said during a press conference that took place Thursday at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

The wild and entertaining Nicaraguan blasted out “I am not afraid of Mosley, I will show him I am the real man, I will stick my chin in the air for him to hit me just like I have done in the past to prove I’m the man.”

Mayorga looked and felt confident of winning this fight. He lit up a cigarette during the press conference taunting his opponent, proclaiming that Mosley was no match for him “I took this fight because its an easy fight, I told Don King to get me an easy so I asked for Shane….I made it clear by beating Fernando Vargas at 170 pounds that I am not afraid of anyone. I’m so confident I will win against this pretty girl with green eyes that I want a rematch with Oscar De La Hoya in December. It’s going to take me three rounds to beat Mosley and I will be ready for Oscar in December.”

“Fernando Vargas and all of his boxing fans told me I couldn’t back up my words in November but I did,” Mayorga stated in reference to his domination of former two-time world champion “Ferocious” Fernando Vargas at the Staple Center on Nov. 23rd. “I will do to Mosley exactly what I did to Vargas or even worse. Mosley needs to prove to me he can stand up and fight the way Vargas tried to do, Mosley will come to the ring wearing his little pink trunks and his matching boxing gloves skating down the ring. Tn my country the men are in charge.”

For Mosley, the bout will be a homecoming. The bout with Mayorga at the Home Depot Center will be his first hometown fight since 2000. The last time Mosley stepped into a Southern California ring was against Oscar De La Hoya at the Staples Center, the fight that catapulted him to boxing superstardom.

“It’s been eight years since I fought at home and I can’t wait to fight at the Home Depot Center,” Mosley said. “Mayorga is a big talker and I know things are going to heat up between us, but I’ve been down this road before. All the talking in the world isn’t going to help him when we step into the ring, that’s where Mayorga will have to eat his words.”

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Mosley vs. Mayorga, a 154 pound limit junior middleweight attraction, is presented by Golden Boy Promotions and Don King Productions and will be televised live by HBO’s World Championship Boxing beginning at 10:30 pm ET / 7:30 pm PT.

Tickets for the event are price at $350, $150 and $50 go on sale today, August 7 and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets, on the web at Ticketmaster.com or charge-by-phone at (213) 480-3232. Tickets are also available for sale at The Home Depot Center Box Office, open Monday thought Friday, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. PT, and on event days. Event Suites, group packages and VIP packages are available by calling 877-234-8425 or on line at www.aegtickets.com