By Sean McDaniel: There’s a lot riding on Saturday’s night’s fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley. For one, this fight has long lasting ramifications for a fight between Mayweather and Pacquiao in the future. If Mayweather beats Mosley in an impressive fashion, it will be that much harder to put together a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight in the future, because Mayweather’s ego will be even more inflated and he’ll likely want a much bigger cut of the pay-per-view revenue compared to Pacquiao. What goes along with this is the Olympic style random drug tests that Mayweather will likely insist that Pacquiao agree to take for a fight.

Pacquiao, who is afraid of needles, probably won’t want to go along with that idea. The fight will then sink on that on issue along. Mayweather could give in on this, but I doubt it, especially if he looks good in beating Mosley on Saturday. Also, if Mayweather-Mosley gets really numbers on PPV, that’s another problem that could hurt Pacquiao in trying to make a fight with Mayweather.

It won’t be hard for Mayweather to outdo Pacquiao’s recent PPV numbers for the Joshua Clottey fight and probably for the bout against Miguel Cotto as well. Mosley has been around longer and is better known by the casual boxing fan than either Cotto and Clottey. So this will cause an even bigger problem for Pacquiao in trying to negotiate a fight with Mayweather.

The best possible outcome that would make a fight easier would be Mayweather fighting to a draw with Mosley or barely scraping by after getting knocked down two or three times in the fight. Mayweather wouldn’t be in a position of power if he doesn’t beat Mosley in a convincing manner and if his fight doesn’t do nearly as well as Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer has been hoping it will do.