By Chris Williams: With a terrible performance put in for his lopsided loss against Manny Pacquiao last weekend in Las Vegas, 39-year-old Shane Mosley is now going to reward himself by taking a vacation. As for retirement, Mosley says “I will think about it.” It’s doubtful that Mosley will retire with guys like WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan lurking out there making noises about wanting to move up in weight to the welterweight division in the near future.

Mosley’s name is one of the fighters that Khan has mentioned for a big fight. It’s unclear whether Khan would be interested in fighting Mosley after the performance he put in with Pacquiao, but my guess is he probably will be interested because it would be a safe fight for Khan. If Khan is fighting guys like Paul McCloskey, who few people had ever heard of before Khan fight him in April, then a bout against a shot-looking Mosley is something that Khan might jump at.

Mosley had this to say after the fight: “I want to have a vacation, relaxation, enjoy the fruits of my labor.” It’s hard to understand how you would want to take a vacation after a bad performance like the one that Mosley put in. Some fighters would be upset with themselves if they put out a bad effort and would want to get back in the ring immediately to start working on fixing what went wrong. With Mosley, it was more of a situation where he just failed to engage. It wasn’t that Pacquiao was doing anything other than taking the fight to Mosley. It seemed like Mosley tasted Pacquiao’s power and decided he didn’t want anymore of it after getting knocked down in the 3rd.