By Chris Williams: Roger Mayweather, the trainer and uncle of unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr., believes that 39-year-old Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s) can beat World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KOs) on May 7th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although Roger doesn’t come right out and say why he feels Mosley can win in an interview at ontheropesboxingradio.com, Roger still thinks Mosley can win.

Here’s some of what Roger had to say about the Pacquiao-Mosey fight: “I truly believe Mosley would stop Pacquiao, but under the circumstances under what they’re talking about, the fight is still going to be close. He [Mosley] ain’t going to lay down.” Roger seems to be hinting at something but coming out and saying why he feels Mosley will still be able to beat Pacquiao.

Like myself, Roger isn’t too enamored with Pacquiao’s catch weight handicap fights, saying “You know what, anytime I see Pacquiao fight somebody, he’s fighting them at a catch weight. He ain’t never fought no dudes who fought at their regular weight class. He fights them dudes at a catch weight. On, you can’t weight this. O, you can’t weight that. Antonio Margarito had been off I don’t know how long. Oh, you know, you can’t weigh more than 150. That’s what they say. He [Pacquiao] fights all them dudes at catch weights.”

I don’t like the catch weight handicap fights for Pacquiao either, but I do think he would have beaten the limited Margarito and Cotto even without them. Those two are part of Bob Arum’s Top Rank stable, and both of them have taken serious beatings in the past three years to the point where I think they were shadows of what they used to be at the time that Pacquiao fought them.

The catch weight handicap obviously didn’t help matters any for those guys, but, yeah, they would have lost anyway to Pacquiao and to a lot of other fights as well. It doesn’t take Pacquiao to beat Margarito and Cotto at this point in their careers. Throw them in with Alfredo Angulo, Sergio Martinez or Sergiy Dzinziruk, and you’ll watch Cotto and Margarito get chopped to pieces.

Roger says this about Floyd’s legal problems: “I think most of that is pretty much cleared up. The thing about it is yea, he has to get back in the ring. That’s how you make money and how you further your legacy. Hopefully, I don’t know, but hopefully my nephew and Pacquiao will fight. If Shane Mosley beats Pacquiao, then we aint eve got to worry about that.”