By Chris Williams: Looking to show boxing fans that he does stand a chance against Manny Pacquiao next month on May 7th, 39-year-old Shane Mosley pointed out today in conference call to the media that Pacquiao just finished getting hit the most times he’d ever been hit in a fight in his last bout against Antonio Margarito last November.

Margarito, who looked painfully slow throughout, was able to land frequently with powerful shots against Pacquiao and punish the Filipino star just by staying in the fight for 12 rounds. To be sure, Margarito ended up losing the fight by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision but it wasn’t without badly punishing Pacquiao in the process.

Mosley uses this argument to show that he does have the hand speed to land shots against Pacquiao next month. Mosley, in contrast, easily defeated an arguably younger and better version of Margarito two years ago in 2009, stopping him in the 9th round in a one-sided fight. At no time in the fight was Mosley hurt. Pacquiao was hurt by Margarito in the 6th and almost knocked down.

Mosley said this in the conference call today:”I see in the Margarito fight that Margarito landed the most punches ever on Manny Pacquiao. So if Margarito is fast enough to land punches on Manny Pacquiao than I know I am fast enough to land punches on Manny Pacquiao.”

Mosley is correct. It isn’t going to be hard for him to land shots against Pacquiao, because is going to be there to be hit in this fight. The real question for Mosley is whether he can stand up to Pacquiao’s shots for 12 rounds without being stopped or badly hurt to the point where it shuts Mosley’s offense down like it was in his last two fights against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Sergio Mora. Mosley went into shut down mode early in those fights and didn’t look good at all.