By Chris Williams: I think Shane Mosley is a terrible choice of an opponent for Manny Pacquiao, and it only makes me think that Bob Arum and Pacquiao are tuned out from what the casual boxing fans want to see as an opponent for Manny.

I think it’s a joke when Roach and Pacquiao’s love sick fans try to justify the selection of Mosley by saying he’s tougher or better than Andre Berto and Juan Manuel Marquez. While I think Mosley was a great fighter eons ago, he sure as heck isn’t great now and doesn’t look like he can fight hard more than a couple of rounds without wearing down like an tractor.

At least Marquez and Berto have excellent stamina and can fight hard for 12 rounds without going into a permanent state of exhaustion like Mosley. I think Mosley would do a reasonable job against those guys for two rounds, then go into permanent freeze and just play the part of an old statue for the remainder of the fight while Marquez and Berto tattoo Mosley with shots and dance circles around him. It wouldn’t even be a fight. Mosley looks totally shot, and it is so sad that he, out of all the potential guys that could have been picked for Pacquiao, was the one that ended up being selected.

It seems like the last part of Pacquiao’s career he’s being put in with guys that stand little chance against him. I don’t understand this fight above all, because this is a fight that they could have made over a year ago when Mosley still had something left in the tank.

It was only after he began to look totally shot that he was finally selected as an opponent for Pacquiao. And really, this fight won’t likely make much more money on pay per view than fights against Joshua Clottey and Antonio Margarito. This isn’t going to be a huge difference like Arum might think it will be.

The reason is because Mosley was never a huge star, never had a big fan base, and has looked completely shot in his last two fights. Boxing fans are going to remember how horrible he looked in his one sided loss to Floyd Mayweather and his 12 round draw with Sergio Mora, and they’re stupid enough to think that Mosley is a legitimate opponent after watching those fights.

Arum and Freddie Roach obviously are thinking that the casual fan will want to see this fight because they’ll remember Mosley’s name, and not much else about him. I think they’re going to be disappointed with the final PPV numbers, which won’t be as good as the Margarito numbers.

I do think they’ll be better than the Clottey fight numbers, but not by a whole lot. The numbers are going to be about the same for anyone that they put Pacquiao in with aside from Mayweather. But the difference is the product will be much worse with Mosley than it would be if they put Pacquiao in with Marquez and Berto. Those guys would have an excellent chance of beating Pacquiao, unlike Mosley.