By Chris Williams: Photo credit Chris Farina/Top Rank – Trainer Freddie Roach wants his fighter Manny Pacquiao to not show too much compassion in his fight against Shane Mosley (56-6-1, 39 KO’s) on May 7th, after Pacquiao let his last opponent Antonio Margarito survive the entire fight and lose by a mere 12 round decision instead of a knockout.

Margarito took an awful pounding in that fight with both of his eyes swollen and his face badly reddened. In the later rounds, it looked like Pacquiao could have stopped Margarito but instead Pacquiao seemed to take it easy on him and coast the last few rounds when it became clear that the referee wasn’t going to stop the fight.

Pacquiao took it easy on Margarito after the fight got really out of hand in the quarter of the fight. Roach doesn’t want the fight to drag out like that with Mosley. Roach wants Pacquiao to finish off Mosley so that he’s still around capable of landing a big shot when the fight is winding down.

Roach said this is an interview at gmanews.tv: “I do want Manny to stop this guy because he let Margarito off the hook last time. He was too compassionate, and you just can’t do that. We’re not going to take it easy on him because he’s older.”

Ideally, it would be better if Roach would speak up about Pacquiao being matched against fighters that can still fight, not against guys that are past their prime by a couple of years like Mosley. Perhaps part of Pacquiao’s compassion is coming from his feelings about how recent fights are turning out to be huge mismatches. The thing is they’re already mismatches before the fight is even started because of the match-making involved.