By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao has supposedly made his choice for his next opponent on May 7th, and reportedly given that name to his promoter Bob Arum so that he can start the hard part of negotiating a fight with that fighter.

Let me guess who the fighters will be – Shane Mosley. It’s pretty clear that Pacquiao is likely going to pick whoever Arum chooses and Arum wants the 39-year-old Mosley, who currently is looking totally shot. Great pick, eh?

In an article by Michael Marley of examiner.com, Arum says “Manny made his pick, he gave me the name. But now I have to go make the best possible economic deal with that opponent. I’m not telling you or anyone else who it is. I will be back in the Top Rank office on Monday and I will got to work on to structure the right deal.” Manny has picked? I almost died laughing when I read that. Yeah, I bet Manny picked, but just by coincidence, it’s going to be Mosley.

In other words, Arum will put together a deal with Mosley and Pacquiao. What a terrible fight that will be. For some reason Pacquiao’s fans really like that choice. Every where I go, I see Pacquiao’s fans saying what a great pick Mosley will be for Pacquiao.

I don’t understand that, but maybe I’m looking at it from a different perspective. I look at fights and want the best possible fighters to go up against each other. I don’t care if I like a fighter or not. I don’t want to see mismatches and I especially don’t want to pay $50 or more to see them when it’s going to be a non-competitive fight. But, hey, that’s me.

Maybe I need to see it a different way. Like this is an easy fight for Pacquiao and he can pad his record with a named fighter without the danger of being knocked senseless in facing guys like Sergio Martinez, Andre Berto and Juan Manuel Marquez.

Yeah, I can see how it would be better for Pacquiao to fight Mosley rather than guys that would beat him. But as a fan, I would never want to see a mismatch, and I don’t care whether my favorite fighter had to take some shots and potentially lose. Seeing mismatches is for the birds, and paying to see them is even worse. But to each his own.