Mayweather-Mosley looking like it’s going to happen

By Boxing News - 01/21/2010 - Comments

Image: Mayweather-Mosley looking like it’s going to happenBy Eric Thomas: According to news from Max Boxing, Floyd Mayweather Jr. (40-0, 25 KO’s) and WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley (46-5, 39 KO’s) have made a verbal agreement for a fight in May of this year. An announcement will be made this Friday about the mega fight between them. Mosley, 38, has not problems submitting to the random blood tests that Mayweather wants for the fight to take place, unlike WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao who was resistant to having blood taken from him any nearer than 24 days before the fight.

Mosley, however, is completely comfortable with having blood taken from him before his fight and it looks like there will be no trouble arranging the bout. The fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao ultimately was unable to be put together because Mayweather wanted random blood tests taken for both fighters up until 14 days before the fight, but Pacquiao, feeling that the small amount of blood taken from would weaken him wanted the blood tests to stop at the 24th days.

As such, Pacquiao moved on and will be facing Joshua Clottey on March 13th, at the Dallas Cowboy stadium, in Arlington, Texas.

Mosley was supposed to be fighting WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto on January 30th, but Berto lost family members in the earthquake in Haiti recently and needed to pull out of the fight.

A fight between Mayweather and Mosley amounts to being the 2nd best fight that can be made in all of boxing behind a Mayweather-Pacquiao bout, of course. This fight won’t compete with the Pacquiao-Clottey fight because they’re taking place on separate dates but it will be interesting to see which fight ends up making more money on pay-per-view.

The Mayweather-Mosley fight appears to be the much better matched fight of the two, because Mosley is considered to be the best fighter in the welterweight division while Clottey is anywhere from the 5th to the 8th best depending on who you ask. Few boxing fans give Clottey much of any chance to beat Pacquiao because of his struggles in fights with Antonio Margarito and Miguel Cotto along with the fact that Clottey tends to not throw a lot of punches in his fights.

One advantage that the Pacquiao vs. Clottey fight has is that it will take place in the Dallas Cowboy stadium and the owner of the stadium, Jerry Jones, will help with drumming up interest in the fight to a certain extent. This should help make what appears to be a mismatch on paper a more appealing fight to casual fans who might have little interest in this fight.



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