The next great boxing bout will be coming soon? Manny Pacquiao vs Shane Mosley? Here is the story by Michael David Smith, boxing.fanhouse.com:
Manny Pacquiao, the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, said Wednesday that he’s prepared to accept a challenge from Shane Mosley to be his next opponent — provided the two can work out details of a contract.
“No problem, we can fight. As long we negotiate,” Pacquiao reportedly told GMA News in the Philippines.
That led Mosley to release a statement saying that he’ll agree to give Pacquiao 60 percent of the purse, and he’ll agree to lose weight and fight Pacquiao below Mosley’s usual 147 pounds.
“Now that Manny has stated that he is ready to fight me, the only thing left to finish are negotiations,” Mosley said. “Richard Schaefer and Bob Arum are working out the details now. I will be ready to fight Pacquiao on October 17th.”
Of course, when two parties say they have a deal and that they just need to negotiate the details, what they really mean is they don’t have a deal at all. So will this fight really go down?
I think it’s a fight that makes sense from a competitive standpoint and would make money from a business standpoint, but I also think the one big fight that boxing needs is Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather, and I’m not sure that any fight that would stand in the way of Pacquiao vs. Mayweather is a fight that should happen.
