By Jim Dower: Former welterweight champion Shane Mosley (46-6, 39 KO’s) is rumored to be possibly fighting former WBC light middleweight champion Sergio Mora (22-1-1, 6 KO’s) next on September 18th. Mora, 29, is very interested as the prospects of fighting the 38-year-old Mosley, saying in an interview by Greg Leon of Boxingtalk.com, It’s [Mosley-Mora bout] definitely a serious talk. I met with Richard Schaefer [the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions] last week and they proposed that fight to me, and I told them I would love to fight Shane Mosley in our hometown. ..The rumors are true; we are working on that fight.”

Mora hasn’t been very active since losing his World Boxing Council junior middleweight title to Vernon Forrest in their rematch in September 2008. However, if Mora is anything like the same fighter he was when he beat Forrest in June 2008, then he could be serious problems for the soon to be 39-year-old Mosley, who was beaten quite easily by Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 1st of this year.

You can say that the loss to Mayweather was more of a product of Mosley running into a better fighter. However, Mosley looked physically spent after the 2nd round of that fight and could barely muster up a handful of punches in the remaining 10 rounds of the fight. In a word, Mosley looked old. And that could be a problem if he fights a hit and run fighter like Mora. I don’t honestly see what the attraction is for Mosley in this fight. Mora is a fighter that’s hard to hit and who makes his opponents look bad.

This isn’t the type of fighter that Mosley has traditionally looked good against. Mosley does well against fighters that don’t move a lot who stand right there in front of him for 12 rounds, letting him move in and out instead of the other way around. Mayweather exposed how stationary Mosley is in his easy win. I don’t imagine Mosley will have gotten any more mobile by the time he fights Mora, if he does end up fighting him.

Mosley would seem to be much better off taking a fight against WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto, a fighter with fast hands and who has a number of fans that follow all his fights. He moves a little but is more of the traditional type of fighter that Mosley does well against. However, Berto has very fast hands, is young at only 26, and typically throws a lot of punches when he’s not using the punch and grab technique.

Mosley could have as many problems against Berto than he would against Mora. However, at least with Berto, Mosley would be pretty much assured of getting a good payday because Berto is probably a lot more popular than Mora and he also holds a title, whereas Mora is currently trying to work his way back into title contention. Mosley might live to regret fighting Mora, because I see this fight as another loss for Mosley. He’s got the wrong style for Mosley and it just doesn’t seem like the kind of opponent that he’ll do well against. Mosley would have to use his legs a lot to beat a fighter like Mora and at 39, I don’t know that Mosley’s wheels will be up to the task of chasing a fighter like Mora for 12 rounds.