Mosley will face Denzel Bentley in the co-main event of Zuffa Boxing 12, which is headlined by the 10-round cruiserweight contest between Chris Billam-Smith and Chev Clarke at London’s Copper Box Arena. The card will stream on Paramount+ and Sky Sports (2 p.m. ET/7 p.m. BST).

While many hope for an emphatic victory inside the distance, especially against a former world champion, Mosley is hoping to see the final bell and leave no doubt he was superior to Bentley in their 10-round middleweight bout.

“People think it's funny that I say that, but the reason why is because for me, it's much more impressive,” Mosley told The Ring’s Louis Hart. “In somebody's backyard ... that's much harder, right? [I could] go out there, knock him out. He could have been winning the fight, [so] that's not that impressive. It's much more impressive that I go out there and box him and beat him clearly.”

Bentley (22-3-1, 18 KOs) initially held the WBO middleweight title when he signed with Zuffa and agreed to face Mosley (23-5, 13 KOs). The London native sought an exemption to defend his title against Mosley rather than mandatory challenger Yoenli Hernandez. Bentley’s request was denied, and the Puerto Rico-based sanctioning body stripped him of the title Oct. 30.

Mosley, 35, described the situation as “water under the bridge,” though, he was less than amused with how everything played out. Bentley, 31, won the interim WBO middleweight title with a seventh-round stoppage of Endry Saavedra in London on April 4. He was elevated to full champion in late July after Janibek Alimkhanuly vacated the title to move up to 168 pounds.

Bentley faced Kazakhstan’s Alimkhanuly (17-0, 12 KOs) but lost by unanimous decision in November 2022.

“I should have had this title fight,” Mosley said. “The fact that they didn't allow me is upsetting. It is what it is. I still get to fight Denzel Bentley, and it's still a big fight.”

Mosley, who is the son of International Boxing Hall of Famer Shane Mosley Sr., is coming off the most impressive win of his career, a sixth-round stoppage of Serhii Bohachuk on May 10 in Las Vegas. After little separated the two through five rounds, Mosley, of Pomona, California, dropped him with a blistering straight right hand. A flurry of shots late in the round with Bohachuk’s back to the ropes led to referee Thomas Taylor stopping the fight.

For Mosley, he felt the win showed he was more than just the son of one of the best boxers of his generation. He enters the contest against Bentley having won six of his last seven.

“Everybody's perception of me, I think it definitely gives me momentum. I think it makes people say [this is] a 50-50 fight," he said. "I always thought it was like that, but obviously, if I didn't have that performance, people wouldn't think that. ‘Oh, he's just living off his dad's name. He only got the fight because of his dad.’ The fact that I come off that type of win gives me much more validity to get fights like this, and that's cool, but I always know who I am.”

There’s no shortage of big fights at middleweight for the winner. IBF champion Aaron McKenna and WBC titleholder Carlos Adames are also with Zuffa. Potential fights against sons of fellow IBHOF members, Conor Benn, who is also signed with Zuffa, and Chris Eubank Jr. also interest Mosley.

A chance to face Benn or Eubank appeals to Mosley the most. Benn (25-2, 14 KOs) is the son of Nigel Benn, and Eubank (35-4, 25 KOs) is the son of Chris Eubank Sr.

“These are all great fights and all makeable fights for Zuffa,” Mosley said. “I think it'd be great. If I want my Wembley fight, it'd be probably Chris Eubank Jr. or Conor Benn.”