By Jim Dower: Shane Mosley (46-6, 39 KO’s) is looking beyond his next fight against on September 18th against former World Boxing Council junior middleweight champion Sergio Mora (22-1, 6 KO’s) and looking at fights against Manny Pacquiao and a rematch with Miguel Cotto. But first the 38-year-old Mosley has to beat Mora in their fight at the Staples Center, in Los Angeles, California.

That’s going to be a really tough fight for Mosley, because he looked like he had lost something in his last fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 1st. Mosley was whipped badly in a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision loss. Now Mosley is moving up in weight from the welterweight division to take on the rusty Mora, a fighter that didn’t fight at all in 2009 and has fought once in 2010.

This is a fight that Mosley can win if he’s at the top of his game. But if he looks anything like he did in his fight against Mayweather, then chances are good that Mosley will run out of gas and find it hard to pull the trigger.

In an interview at East Side Boxing’s On the Ropes Boxing Radio, Mosley said “I would like to fight either one [Cotto or Pacquiao]. I think that a fight at 147 with Pacquiao would be great or if Pacquiao wants to fight at 154 or 150, that would be a good catch weight.”

That would be interesting to see Mosley against Pacquiao. However, Pacquiao’s promoter has already passed up Mosley last year when they had the opportunity to fight him and also chose not to fight him this year. I can’t expect anything to change in the future regardless of whether Mosley wins or losses against Mora on the 18th of September.

In some ways, Mosey might be better off if he were to lose to Mora because Pacquiao has been facing fighters that have either been coming off a loss at the time that he fought them or had lost fights recently. If Mosley looks good in beating Mora, I think he will probably be ignored as an opponent for Pacquiao. I think the same may apply for Cotto. Its the same promoter, Arum, so I can’t see Mosley getting a shot against Cotto unless Cotto really hits rock bottom and starts losing fights.

In that case, I can see Mosley getting a fight with him but, it won’t be much of a point in fighting him then. I respect Mosley for wanting to fight Pacquiao and Cotto but I think it’s a pipe dream on his part and not really realistic unless Cotto starts losing every fight. Pacquiao is pretty much untouchable for Mosley at this point.