By Mark Vester

Leonard Ellerbe, the adviser to Floyd Mayweather (36-0, 24KOs), confirmed to the Grand Rapids Press what Cory Spinks manager Kevin Cunningham told BoxingScene last week, that Floyd Mayweather is going to face WBC welterweight champion Carlos Baldomir (43-9-6, 13 KOs) on November 4 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas

Dan Goossen has been named as the promoter for the bout, and an official announcement is coming shortly.

"Carlos Baldomir is the guy. We're really excited about it because he's the biggest fight out there that's available. He's the welterweight champion, he's the perceived champion, and that's the fight that's going to happen," Ellerbe said.

Originally, the boxing world was expecting Mayweather to move up to 154 pounds to challenge Cory Spinks for his IBF junior middleweight title. The fight was close to being signed that Spinks' manager Kevin Cunningham told the media that the fight was 99% done. After back and forth negotiations for the Spinks bout, Mayweather decided to go with Baldomir, feeling that he was the much more acttractive bout.

Baldomir is recognized by many as the true linear welterweight champion, after he dethroned Zab Judah in January. After being stripped of the IBF title for not agreeing to pay the sanctioning fee, the belt was returned to Judah, who later lost the title to Mayweather in April.

Some historians refused to recognize Mayweather as a four division champion, because he beat Judah for a title that was technically lost to Baldomir. A bout against Baldomir will set the record straight.

"Everybody was calling me, saying they heard it was going to be Spinks. All these guys were under consideration. But Baldomir is The Ring welterweight champion, he beat Judah, he beat Gatti, and he's the guy at 147. I've said all along that we would make the biggest fight available, and the biggest fight available is Baldomir," Ellerbe said.

Ellerbe did note that Mayweather would have liked to fight Shane Mosley on the November date, but Mosley turned down the fight, citing that he would not fight again until 2007. Ellerbe feels that Shane is avoiding the fight.

"I honestly believe Shane doesn't want to fight Floyd," Ellerbe said. "He probably knows, in his mind, what would happen if he gets in the ring with Floyd."