By Dan Ambrose: Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime – For what appears to be a huge mismatch on paper involving a fighter in his prime in Manny Pacquiao against an aging fighter on the downside of his career in 39-year-old Shane Mosley this Saturday night, the two fighters are going to walk out of this fight with a whole bunch of money regardless of what happens in the ring. According to boxing news from Dan Rafael, Pacquiao will be getting a guarantee of $20 million for this Saturday’s fight, whereas Mosley will get a respectable $5 million.

Both fighter’s money could very well be more than that depending on what the final pay per view numbers come out to. With the Fight Camp 360 episodes being aired on CBS, this could be a fight that could bring in as many as 1.4 million PPV buys or more. That’s a lot of buys for a fight that isn’t really all that appealing on paper. It’s not that the fight wouldn’t have been an interesting one say six years ago when Mosley was still young at 33. But at 39 with his last win coming two years ago, Mosley doesn’t have much more of a puncher’s chance in this fight against Pacquiao.

Normally, boxing fans prefer to see fights that are more competitive than this going in. However, this fight is being marketed to the casual boxing fans without a lot of information about the two fighters other than what they’re seeing on Fight Camp 360. As a result, the Pacquiao vs. Mosley fight could bring in better numbers than any of Pacquiao’s recent fights. That would be a big deal because this could lead to more Pacquiao fights being advertised on CBS with equally big PPV numbers in theory. In the best possible world, it would be nice to see Pacquiao taking on some guys that are fighting well and not coming off of a loss or struggling the way that the 39-year-old Mosley is. But if the casual boxing fans want to buy these kinds of fights, who’s to argue?