Shane Mosley vs. Fernando Vargas II
Shane Mosley vs. Fernando Vargas II, billed as The Rematch, was a professional boxing match contested on July 15, 2006.
Background
Mosley and Vargas had first fought five months prior. In what was a close fight, the two fighters was separated by a single point on all three official scorecards heading into the tenth round when a serious eye injury sustained by Vargas early in the fight resulted in the bout being called 1:22 into the round, giving Mosley the victory by technical knockout. Vargas caused a scene during the post-fight press conference, angrily confronting Mosley's wife Jin and demanding a rematch, which resulted in Jin and Vargas' wife Martha getting into a verbal altercation and being restrained by security. Prior to the ruckus, Vargas' manager Shelly Finkel assured the parties involved that he would discuss a rematch with Mosley's promoter, Golden Boy Promotions head Richard Schaefer, and Vargas' promoter, Kathy Duva of Main Events. On April 30, 2006, Golden Boy Promotions and Main Events held a press conference announcing that the rematch would indeed take place in July of that year at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Golden Boy Promotions president and mutual opponent of Mosley and Vargas stated that the first fight "was one of those fights that was so good that you have to see it again."Just over a week after the fight was announced, Mosley announced that he would reunite with his father and longtime trainer Jack, whom he had parted ways with two years earlier after losing to Ronald "Winky" Wright for the first time. Jack Mosley was replacing John David Jackson, who had trained Mosley for his four prior fights, as Jackson had joined Bernard Hopkins' camp and was busy training him for his June fight with Antonio Tarver and thus unavailable to train Mosley for the rematch against Vargas.