By Chris Williams: The fight contracts for the Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley bout have reportedly been finally signed and the bout is set to ahead for May 7th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao, 32, is guaranteed a minimum of $15 million for the fight and the 39-year-old Mosley could end up making as much as $7 million or more if it brings in more than 1 million pay per view buys. The fight itself figures to be a huge mismatch, as Mosley’s best years are far behind in the rear view mirror.

Mosley would probably be lucky to even beat Antonio Margarito at this point, because Mosley appears to have lost a lot of his skills in the past year. Mosley was chosen for his name, not because he actually had a chance to beat Pacquiao. If they wanted someone that would have a good chance of beating Pacquiao, they would have selected counter puncher Juan Manuel Marquez, Andre Berto, Sergio Martinez or Paul Williams. But instead they have opted for the low risk, high reward fight against the badly faded Mosley.

The good thing is the general boxing world, the ones that will be scooping this fight up and paying huge cash for it on PPV, probably won’t have a clue how shot Mosley is. As such, they’ll have to find out the hard way when after the fight starts, Mosley goes into early shut down mode after gassing out in two or three rounds. The rest of the fight will likely be one where Pacquiao beats up on an old punching bag that’s too slow, too frozen and too beat up to let his hands go.