By Dave Lahr: Sugar Shane Mosley has been in with them best of them in his career from guys like Oscar De La Hoya to ones like Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mosley has now won the lottery by getting selected out of a number of potential opponents to face Manny Pacquiao on May 7th. The selector was Bob Arum, Pacquiao’s promoter, who obviously thinks Mosley is someone that his fighter can beat because otherwise Arum wouldn’t have hand picked him.

The last thing that Arum wants is his gravy train fighter beaten up and defeated by someone before Arum can match Pacquiao up with Mayweather in what will be the biggest money fight ever in boxing. Mosley, however, isn’t just going to lay down like a dog and let Pacquiao beat him up like he does against the recent fodder that’s been fed to him in the past year.

In an interview by Greg Leon at boxingtalk.com, Mosley said “I think Mayweather is more diffucult…I view Mayweather as being a more difficult fight because of the way his defense leads to his offense. Manny is a lot more open to land big shots than Mayweather is and I could punch a little bit.”

Yes, I agree with Mosley. Mayweather is a much more difficult opponent than Pacquiao. Mayweather has lightning hand speed, pin point accuracy and great defensive ability. Pacquiao is kind of a primitive fighter that just rushes his opponents looking to land combinations and then run away. You see, Pacquiao likes to bum rush his opponents and he’s so hittable when he’s coming forward when he does this. He’s not helped by the fact that he has such short arms. Mayweather has got longer arms, and is so athletic. Mosley is going to be able to land a lot of shots against Pacquiao, and if Mosley still has a little left in the tank, he’s going to beat whip Pacquiao and leave him bloody and battered. I can’t wait.

But, yeah, Mayweather is a heck of a lot better than Pacquiao. There’s no comparison. I agree with everything Mosley says. I’m starting to like this guy.