By Dan Ambrose: With 39-year-old Shane Mosley (46-6-1, 39 KO’s) poised to get his biggest payday of his 18-year pro career against World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (52-3-2, 38 KO’s) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Mosley is reportedly having one of his best training camps in ages. Mosley is coming off of back to back poor performances against Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Sergio Mora in 2010 in which Mosley looked every bit of advanced age.

If Mosley can duplicate the same effort that he’s putting in this training camp in the ring with Pacquiao in May, we might see an interesting fight and possibly an upset. However, that’s not likely because he’s looked so bad in his last fights. This fight has the makings of one of those bouts were a younger champion picks out an old name to fight in order to get a nice payday while boxing fans, who thought it would be a competitive fight and purchased the bout on pay-per-view, end up angry for having paid for a one-sided fight.

I’m hoping that Mosley can find the fountain of youth but given how bad he looked in his last two fights and how old he is now, I just can’t see that happening. I’m mostly just disappointed in Pacquiao and his team for having picked out a guy who so clearly is looking faded. It isn’t like Pacquiao needs the little bit of extra money that a fight against someone like Mosley would bring him. He’s rich and not hurting for money and neither his promoter.

This isn’t the best fight out there for Pacquiao in terms of a competitive match-up. Maybe it is as far as getting a little bit more money than say fighting a guy like WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto, but the little bit of extra money isn’t worth it in my view when there potential is high that the fight will be a one-sided affair with Pacquiao easily beating up the nearly 40 Mosley and boxing fans ending up pissed off.