By Chris Williams: It’s not a good feeling when you see Freddie Roach gloating ahead of time about how his fighter Manny Pacquiao doesn’t have much of a chance of losing to 39-year-old Shane Mosley on May 7th. The fight already reeks of a cherry-picked mismatched between Pacquiao and a fighter that is turning 40 this year and hasn’t looked good in the ring in over two years. Roach is sky high about Pacquiao’s chances of winning the fight, saying “I don’t think there’s room for an upset but in boxing you never know.”

Roach should pumping up Mosley because he badly needs it so that people can see this a competitive fight instead of one where Mosley was picked just because he has a recognizable name to the casual – read: fans with a scant knowledge of the sport – boxing fans. Mosley has a chance but it’s so small it’s not even funny.

You just look at him in the Fight Camp 360 episodes and it’s hard to give him any chance in this fight. All I think of is how old Mosley looks compared to Pacquiao. I think this is a really bad idea for a fight because of all the casual boxing fans that will purchase it thinking it will be a competitive fight. Under the best circumstances, they’ll think Pacquiao is simply great because he’ll be dominating Mosley, one of the best fighters in boxing in the past 15 years.

However, if they’re fans who paid money hoping to be entertained, we might see a lot of angry fans who could feel burned by watching a mismatch. And the undercard won’t have enough interesting fights to make up for the main event not being thrilling because all there is on the undercard is Kelly Pavlik facing little known Alfonso Lopez, Wilfredo Vazquez Jr. vs. an old Jorge Arce, little known Mike Alvarado vs. equally little known Ray Narth, Pier Olivier Cote vs. Aris Ambriz.