By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Robert Guerrero (29-1-1, 18 KO’s) is in the running for the WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather’s next fight on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. I wouldn’t mind seeing this fight if Guerrero had at least at one time fought at welterweight and if he wasn’t coming off of a very torn rotator cuff injury involving his left shoulder, but I think those two factors make Guerrero a much less interesting option for Mayweather than someone like WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez.

Guerrero is a skinny lightweight, and he will be asked to move up two divisions to take a fight with Mayweather. I don’t thinks that a good fight unless you’re Mayweather and you want to bad someone around the ring like a piñata on Cinco de Mayo. They need someone closer to Mayweather’s size that’s not coming off of a career threatening injury like Guerrero and who isn’t painfully thin.

I won’t be surprised if Mayweather and Golden Boy picks Guerrero, but I think it’ll be an awful fight. This is a clear step down for Mayweather from his last fight against Victor Ortiz. Guerrero is slow, smaller and weaker than Ortiz. Guerrero is like more limited version of Juan Manuel Marquez and I mean a MUCH more limited version.

Since Mayweather made Marquez look really bad in beating him two years ago, a fight between Mayweather and a slow guy coming off a serious injury is a bad idea. You can see it as a stay busy fight for Mayweather, and I guess that’s okay but it won’t be a really exciting fight because Guerrero has no business fighting at welterweight. Guerrero hasn’t even fought at light welterweight, so he would be skipping a division with a bad shoulder and fighting Mayweather.

Does that sound like a good idea? It is if you’re into mismatches or if you’re Golden Boy Promotions and you want to have an in house fight no matter what. Guerrero hasn’t fought since last year in April when he beat Michael Katsaidis. Although Guerrero won that fight by a lopsided 12 round decision, he had problems when Katsidis was throwing to the body. Guerrero in the past got warn out and beaten by Orlando Salido in 2006. Mayweather won’t bother going to the body like Salido, but he’ll easily beat Guerrero just the same.

Mayweather needs someone his own size, not a skinny lightweight like Guerero.