Former world champion Shane Mosley rescues baby from car crash

For all that he’s accomplished inside of the ring, “Sugar” Shane Mosley separated himself from his boxing peers with what he did outside of the squared circle over the weekend.

The former three-division world titleholder went from champion to hero when he rescued a baby from a four-car pile up on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

The 44-year-old happened to be right behind the freeway incident when his instincts kicked in. The former champion raced to one of the vehicles when he noticed an unconscious man in the front seat and a baby in the backseat trapped in a car seat.

“You don’t know if the car is going to catch fire, what’s going to happen, then seeing there’s a baby in there …” Mosley told a reporter from KCAL9. “The baby was crying and bleeding, his neck was bruised.”

He immediately took the baby from the vehicle and waited for the paramedics to arrive. Afterward, Mosley’s girlfriend phoned the baby’s mother and they all followed the ambulance to a nearby hospital to make sure that everyone was OK. Fortunately, neither the baby nor the father suffered any life-threatening injuries.

“He [the father] was crying and saying, you guys are like an angel, and thank you for helping me. And being there for me and protecting my son,” Mosley said.

The boxer also gave the family a pair of tickets to his May 28 fight against David Avanesyan in Arizona.