By Eric Thomas: According to Michael Marley of Examiner.com, unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. isn’t moving forward with his fight with World Boxing Association welterweight champion Shane Mosley. Marley states that a source within the Mayweather camp says that Floyd has added up what he’d likely make in his bout with Mosley, which is $10 million, and compared it to the $40 million that he’d get in a fight with the smaller Manny Pacquiao and sees that as the easier fight compared to Mosley.

Apparently, the Mayweather camp are busy discussing whether it will be worth it to take the tough fight against Mosley for the smaller money or wait on a fight against Pacquiao for a much bigger payday without as much risk involved. I can certainly understand why Mayweather might not want to fight Mosley. If Mayweather loses the fight, he destroys his chance for a big money fight against Pacquiao.

In addition, say what you will about Pacquiao being the best fighter in all of boxing, but he’s smaller than Mosley and not a true welterweight. Pacquiao, with his aggressive, some say reckless, style of fighting, he’s the type of fighter that Mayweather has always done well against.

Mayweather and his team, according to Marley’s source, are debating whether to try and restart the talks with Pacquiao’s management team after Manny gets past Clottey on March 13th. The logic here is that a dangerous fight against Mosley won’t likely attract a great deal of pay per view revenue compared to a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao.

Mosley doesn’t have a huge following like Pacquiao does, meaning that a fight between Mayweather and Mosley wouldn’t do nearly as well in terms of PPV sales. At the same time, it’s a risky fight for Mayweather because of Mosley’s hand speed, power and work rate.
Marley also reports that Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum is looking to match Antonio Margarito up with Pacquiao next after the Clottey fight.

Margarito is in the process of getting his boxing license back and then provided that he does get it back, he’ll be fighting on the undercard of the Pacquiao-Clottey fight. If everything goes well, Arum could match Pacquiao up with Margarito in the Dallas Cowboy stadium, and get the benefit of a large flow of Mexican boxing fans that could purchase tickets in droves to see Margarito fight Pacquiao.

At the very least, Arum could use Margarito as a pawn to get Mayweather to drop his demands for random blood tests and to take a smaller cut of the purse. Given that the Pacquiao-Clottey fight has already sold 20,000 tickets after only 3 hours on the first day that the tickets were put on sale, there’s a good chance that the Dallas Cowboy stadium could be filled with as many 50,000 or more fans just to see Pacquiao fight the little known Clottey.

With that amount of tickets being scooped up for a fight between Pacquiao and fighter like Clottey, who the casual boxing fans aren’t familiar with, a fight against Margarito would likely to even better as long as boxing fans are willing to forget about Margarito’s hand wrap issue before his fight with Mosley last year.