By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (26-0, 20 KO’s) says he’s looking at a variety of opponents for his next fight. According to Boxingtalk.com, Berto says that Shane Mosley, IBF welterweight champion Jan Zaveck and WBA light middleweight champion Miguel Cotto are a few of the opponents he’s looking at fighting next.

However, there are some others that he’s not mentioning that he could fight as well. Berto won’t be fighting anytime soon, however, because he tore his left bicep in his 8th round TKO win over Carlos Quintana on April 10th, and he’s going to need some time to rehab the injury to get back to where he was before it occurred.

Berto says he’s not interested in moving down in weight to take on the top light welterweights in the division like Timothy Bradley, Devon Alexander, Marcos Maidana or Amir Khan. Berto says “I definitely got to handle my business at 147. There’s a lot of hungry fighters down there [talking about the light welterweight division], but I don’t think there’s enough money for the best young fighters.”

Berto wants to take a big named opponent. However, for him to do that, he’s going to have to land a fight against Cotto, Mosley, Floyd Mayweather Jr. or Manny Pacquiao next. The chances of fighting any of them would seem rather slim right now. Cotto is being looked at as a possible replacement opponent for Pacquiao in case he doesn’t fight Mayweather.

If that fight doesn’t happen, Cotto could be fighting Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. next or possibly Antonio Margarito. A fight between Berto and Zaveck probably wouldn’t interest U.S. boxing fans, because most of them have never heard of Zaveck nor seen him fight. That wouldn’t be the big named opponent that Berto is looking for, that’s for sure. Berto would do well if he could pick up another welterweight title, but it would purely be a status thing and likely be seen as a paper title because Zaveck isn’t considered to be in the class of welterweights Mayweather or Pacquiao.

However, it would give Berto more of bargaining chip if he were to fight against one of the big names, but then again, Berto would do just as well if he could get someone like Mosley or one of the top junior middleweights to fight him. A fight between Berto and Alfredo Angulo or Sergeii Dzinziruk would also be a great fight and would likely help make a name for Berto more than a fight against Zaveck.