Pacquiao Not Ready to Fight Mosley Yet
June 4th, 2009
By Manuel Perez: I should have known it was too good to be true. After Shane Mosley publicists sent out a press release recently saying that he had an agreement from Manny Pacquiao about him fighting Mosley next, it turns out Pacquiao and his promoter Bob Arum haven’t yet made up their minds as to who the next opponent will be for Manny.
Pacquiao says he’s “flattered” that he Mosley wants to fight him, but that he wants his promoter to be the one that makes the decisions about his next fight. In the presser that was sent out yesterday from the Mosley publicists, Mosley said that he would be fighting Pacquiao at a catch weight and would be getting a 40% of the purse split to Pacquiao’s 60%.
That sounds like a good deal for Pacquiao if you ask me. However, with Mosley being so eager to take only 40%, chances are this would be dropped even lower through the negotiation process if Pacquiao and his promoter were interested in this fight.
I really don’t see Mosley as being on the radar screen for Pacquiao regardless of the outcome on the Cotto-Clottey and Mayweather-Marquez fights. I think Pacquiao and his promoter are looking at Cotto or Edwin Valero as the one that Pacquiao will be fighting next. Cotto is a popular choice because he’s also promoted by Arum and by matching him with Pacquiao it would be a win-win situation for Arum.
Cotto might be too dangerous for Pacquiao, because unless Cotto is made to come in at some drastically low catch weight like 138 to 140, the chances are high that Cotto will be too powerful for Pacquiao and would knock him out. A loss to Cotto would take away Pacquiao’s status of boxing’s pound-for-pound number #1 fighter and bring him down to size.
I doubt that Arum and Pacquiao will want that to happen so soon, especially with a huge money bout with Mayweather not far off. Valero will likely be the one that Pacquiao goes after because he is easily the most beatable of the bunch. While he’s not really popular with boxing fans, his unbeaten 25-0 record will be something that will give Pacquiao credibility with the casual boxing fans should he beat Valero.
Pacquiao has become popular all a sudden since his two knockout wins over Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton recently. Before those bouts, Pacquiao had struggled against Marquez, getting a gift 12-round decision victory in March 2008.
What makes Mosley so dangerous is that he has better power than Pacquiao, is bigger and has more experience against world class athletes than the Filipino star. Pacquiao has a lot of wins over lesser fighters and has struggled against better fighters like Erik Morales and Marquez. Neither Hatton nor De La Hoya were in their prime when Pacquiao fought them in my view. Mosley would probably destroy Pacquiao as would Cotto, Marquez and Mayweather. No way will Pacquiao or Arum want the Pacquiao express to end when there’s easy options like Valero out there.
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so your saying cotto will beat manny at 138 or 140. If manny beats cotto you will just say that cotto was out of his weight class and start downsizing the incredible victory that manny will have you hipicritical prick.
even mosley said Pac is not a natural welterweight. He just fought @ 130 last year. Don’t expect him to fight all guys above his weight. Even Marquez won’t fight Vernon Forrest when he jokingly called him out, as you know it’s a mismatch. They have to meet in the middle to be perfectly fair.
just too many filipino pac followers without any boxing knowledge around the world ,that it’s scary..there’s just too much at stake for bob arum,hbo ppv, freddie roach and of course manny, if they throw him in with a dangerous opponent that has all the tools to beat him..
Mosley beats him if they fight soon. Pacman wants too may provisions to fight him. Even at a catch weight mosley still decisions him.
All of Manny’s fight were tough, and that’s why he lose on the decision to Morales, but you failed to mentioned that he came back and knocked him out 2 times after. Tell Marquez to stop whining about his loss, and take it like a man.
mayweather is to slow, hes boring, and he talks to much crap, he needs to get knocked out, of course he is a great boxer but he is not exiting to watch like pacquiao, i would rather see pacquiao fight because win lose or draw, he will give it 100%, mayweather should have about 3 losses on his record, he got lucky that some fights he went decision on because he could have easily lost those close fights.
i would have to disagree… it is easy for a man to win as he moves up especially when he is a fast fighter… pacman is a good fighter but hatton is the most overrated fighter in the history of boxing… he should have lost to luzciano if the ref never jumped in to prevent it. but arum is scared of mayweather… he is going to ride this pacman cash cow until he drops and if he fights mayweather he will lose… mayweather is too good too smart
pacman is an all-time great exciting fighter, but these ridiculous catchweights of expecting his opponents to come weight drained is only advantageous to pac. they’re practically knockedout by the time they step into the ring.