By Chris Williams: Depending on how you look at the Manny Pacquiao vs. Shane Mosley fight, you might think that the going price for this pay-per-view event is a real bargain or a total rip off. I’m kind of leaning towards the latter myself and I’m still hoping for some complimentary price reduction. The fight goes for a hefty $54.99 on Showtime, and that’s not chump change in this economy.

That’s like weeks’ of gas for my car. Somehow, I don’t see Pacquiao-Mosley as being a $54.99 type fight in my book. I see it as one of those nice Showtime fights that aren’t pay-per-view. I guess it’s something about Mosley being almost 40-years-old, and the fact that he hasn’t actually won a fight in two years. I don’t know but maybe I’m overlooking something here.

Should I and boxing fans have to pay $54 for a fight that involves a fighter that hasn’t won in two years and has looked pretty horrible in recent fights? I think Bob Arum would really do boxing fans a service here if he were to reduce the price on this fight to 1/3 of the asking price. Even in that, I’m bending over backwards because I don’t it as anything more than a $5 fight. If you’re going to be asked to pay the full price for a fight, shouldn’t both fighters be at the very top of their game? I see this as a fight between a catch weight champion and a fighter that would be more at home in an old timer’s fight against someone like Oscar De La Hoya or Felix Trinidad.