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Boxer "Sugar" Shane Mosley turns hero on L.A. highway

LOS ANGELES -- He's a world champion boxer who has won eight belts, but today when he saw a four-car pile-up on the 405 freeway, it wasn't about being a champion.

It was about being human, which is why "Sugar" Shane Mosley immediately stopped for help when he saw the wreck, reports CBS Los Angeles.

"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 remarked to the station.

He said a baby was in his car seat, screaming, and bleeding. The car's driver -- the baby's father -- was so out of it he couldn't unlock the door to get to the baby, Mosley added.

Mosley and his girlfriend called 911 and finally got the baby out of the car, and held him until paramedics arrived.

"The baby was crying and bleeding, his neck was bruised," Mosley said.

Mosley grabbed the baby bag from the car and then followed the ambulance to the hospital.

Along the way, Mosley's girlfriend called the baby's mother, who is pregnant with her second child. They got to the hospital and thankfully found out everyone will be OK.

Mosley tweeted his reaction:

"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 recalled.

Mosley followed it all up by giving the family tickets to his upcoming fight, on May 28th.

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