Pacquiao eyes unification fight vs. Mosley

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Manny “PacMan” Pacquiao is eyeing a title unification fight with “Sugar” Shane Mosley as early as July this year, should both hurdle their coming fights. Pacquiao will defend his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title against Joshua Clottey on March 13, while Mosley has signed a contract staking his World Boxing Association (WBA) welter belt against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 1.

Pacquiao, who is currently training for his coming fight in Los Angeles, thinks Mosley will beat Mayweather convincingly in their May showdown booked at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.

If that happens, and assuming he gets past Clottey in the first defense of his WBO title, then a unification mega bout between him and Mosley is the logical thing to do.

“Shane like [me] will force pressure on Floyd for every minute of every round,” Pacquiao told Violito
Tanamor of TheBoxingHistorian.com.

“Shane has fought the best in the welterweight division for over a decade and has faced the best the division has to offer. I think he will be too much for Mayweather and will stop Floyd.”

Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is confident his prized Filipino student will beat Clottey and will then face the winner of Mosley-Mayweather in July.

Pacquiao made it clear that he is not looking past Clottey and is training very hard for the bigger and stronger slugger from Ghana.

He also said he is quite excited to be fighting before a huge live audience at the modern Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Texas.

“I feel honored and privileged to be fighting in such a venue,” he said.

Pacquiao-Mosley would be more exciting than Pacquiao-Mayweather because of the boxers’ style of fighting.

Roach, a four-time Trainer of the Year, said in a previous interview that a match-up between PacMan and Mayweather could be boring because the latter loves to run and is a defense-oriented fighter.

In contrast, Mosley is a come-forward boxer-puncher just like Pacquiao, and both have high knockout ratios at the highest levels of fighting.

Pacquiao has scored four consecutive KO wins against elite opponents in his last four fights, namely: David Diaz, ninth round KO; Oscar De La Hoya, eighth round TKO; Ricky Hatton, second round KO; and Miguel Cotto, 12th round TKO.

Pacquiao collected world titles at lightweight, junior welterweight, and welterweight and cemented his stature as the world’s best pound-for-pound in those four super fights.

Mosley, on the other hand, won his WBA title by stopping the favored Antonio Margarito in the ninth round of their January 24 title fight.

Before that, he knocked out the brash former welterweight titlist Ricardo Mayorga with barely a few seconds left in the final round in July 2008.

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Mosley has only fought Collozo, Cotto and Margarito in the WW division.

Roach is always making statements that he contradicts a week later. Mosley was knocking on their door, ringing their bell, and practically begging them for a fight. NOW all of a sudden they're talking a Mosley fight as a plan. WTF!!!!!!!!!!

Roach is soo full of **** - its not even funny anymore.