Williams Wants Mosley, Shane Wants Pacquiao, Hatton
By Mark Vester
Last Saturday in Las Vegas, WBO interim-junior middleweight champion Paul Williams looked spectacular in dominating Winky Wright for nearly the entire twelve rounds of their middleweight bout.
Maybe too spectacular.
Williams is pushing for a fight with WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley. He wants to head down to 147 and chase down Shane. And he makes a strong case by dominating the guy who beat Mosley twice.
There is one small problem, Shane is not interested. We reported a few weeks ago that Mosley, during an inteview with The Ring Online, said he was eager to get in the ring with Williams, who is at least 6'2 or 6'3 and has an 82-inch reach.
I’d fight anyone,” Mosley said, “but I really wouldn’t want to fight him.”
Mosley is more interested in the outcome of the May 2 bout between Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton, and waiting around and killing time is not a big deal. Mosley is willing to sit back and wait as long as he needs to in order to make a fight with the winner. If he can't get either of the two, he will try to make a rematch with Miguel Cotto - if the Puerto Rican fighter can get past Joshua Clottey on June 13.
Williams' promoter Dan Goossen is well aware of the trouble his fighter is having with landing the big fights. It was the main reason why Williams has jumped around from welterweight to middleweight to junior middleweight and then back up to middleweight. Goossen admits that a hunt for a big name at 168 is possible - if none of the top dogs at 147, 154 or 160 come biting.
"This is why we went up to 160 pounds," Goossen said. "We had to give somebody an advantage, or at least a comfort level, (to think) it was an even playing field - but it's not. The bar may be raised to go up to '68, but one of the things he wants to do is go back to '47. We'll either go to '47 and get his title back, go to '54 and get another title, or fight again at '60.
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