By Mark Vester

WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley is still tearing into Floyd Mayweather Jr. Mosley is not impressed with Mayweather's comeback domination of Juan Manuel Marquez. The Mexican warrior moved up by two weight division to face Mayweather. During a recent interview with Michael Rosenthal of The Ring Online, Mosley said Mayweather only fights hand-picked opponents who are smaller men like Marquez and Ricky Hatton or fighters who don't present a threat. He says Mayweather has ducked the real welterweights of the division, like Antonio Margarito, Miguel Cotto and others.

“He only fights hand-picked guys,” Mosley said. “Oscar fought Whitaker, Chavez, Quartey, Trinidad, myself. He fought Hopkins. He fought all different people. Chavez fought everybody. Duran, Leonard, Hearns, all these great fighters, Robinson, Ali, I can go down the list – they fought everybody.

“This is what great fighters do, they fight the best. Mayweather wants to go down in his story as being undefeated. ‘No one beat me so I must be the best.’ It’s not true. In the end, you have to fight the best.”

He doesn't think Mayweather should get any credit for beating up on Marquez when there was such a significant size advantage involved.

“It would be like me jumping to 168 and fighting Mikkel Kessler or Roy Jones or somebody,” Mosley said.

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