Shane Mosley and Ricardo Mayorga had a final 'face-off' ahead of their rematch on Saturday night. The pair fought six years ago with Mayorga rattling Mosley before being knocked out in the final round.
This face-off was distinguished by Mayorga slapping Mosley's girlfriend on the backside.
If this was designed to provoke a scuffle, then it succeeded, with Mosley leaping at Mayorga, who was protected by his backroom team.
Mosley's girlfriend, who had bent down to pick up her glasses when the slap occurred, proceeded to have her say, flinging what appeared to be her shoe (or perhaps the infamous glasses) in the direction of her assailant.
It is not customary for a girlfriend to mill about between fighters who are facing off, and it is rarer still for a significant other to reach down and pick up her glasses between two fighters who have just been facing off.
Intriguingly, as Balls.ie's Gavan Casey informs us, the episode almost mirrors the plot of a sitcom in which Mosley starred alongside Kevin Hart, 'Real Husbands of Hollywood', in which Hart hit on Mosley's girlfriend and was then obliged to fight him in a charity match.
So, an insolent and crass move from Mayorga. The fight's publicists may choose to look at it in a different light.
@THEREALMAYORGA @ShaneMosley_ ? #GrudgeMatch #MosleyMayorga2 #DatSmackDoe pic.twitter.com/e2FNNBiRXO
— RoundByRoundBoxing (@RBRBoxing) August 25, 2015
