By Eric Thomas: In an article by David Mayo of the Grand Rapids Press, undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. fired away at World Boxing Association Shane Mosley with his usual flair for tough talk, saying “I just think that Shane Mosley, he’s desperate, so he has no choice but to fight me. His career’s coming to an end and, before he goes, he wants that last big payday.” Mayweather seems to be a little hypocritical, though, because he’s not exactly made it a secret why he came back from his two year retirement last year.

Mayweather wants to make as money as he can in boxing, so why is he blaming Mosley for wanting to get a get a good payday by fighting Mayweather? But Mosley isn’t looking for one last big payday against Mayweather. Mosley wants a shot at WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. That’s where the real big money is at for Mosley. However, to get to that big pot of gold, Mosley will have to get by the 32-year-old Mayweather on May 1st when they meet at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Mosley, 38, apparently has blown a chance to fight Mayweather in 2006, when Mosley said after his fight against Fernando Vargas that he wanted to take a vacation rather than face Mayweather. But so what? Mosley was more than willing to fight Mayweather now, and that’s all that counts.

Mayweather says “I told Shane Mosley that all roads lead through Floyd Mayweather and that everybody makes their biggest payday with me. I think it just took him 12 years to see that this is true.”

There’s little doubt that Mosley will get a good payday against Mayweather in May, but if Mosley can somehow reach back into his youth and beat Mayweather, Mosley stands to get a really huge payday against Pacquiao in the near future, that is, if Mosley doesn’t mess things up by insisting on random blood tests for Pacquiao to take. If that’s the case, then Mosley may have as little luck of fighting Pacquiao as Mayweather did recently.