Shane Mosley says a Floyd Mayweather fight is not imminent but he does not want to fight Paul Williams beforehand.
Mosley’s clinical destruction of Antonio Margarito in January renewed speculation about a match-up with Floyd Mayweather which had been dormant for the last half decade.
Mayweather is thought to be ready to return to boxing in September but Mosley feels ‘Money’ will not want to take such a difficult match-up initially.
“I’ve talked to Floyd personally and he said that he really don’t want to fight me right now, so maybe he wants to do a couple of tuneups and then take a fight with me,” Mosley told Boxing Scene.
A problem for Mosley is that his desire to fight the winner of the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton bout, is likely to be replicated by Mayweather who drawing more money will seem more attractive to the May 2 winner.
After Williams’ destruction of Winky Wright, he has also laid his claims to be, like Mosley, Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, among the contenders to be the world’s best pound-for-pound fighter.
That said the option of fighting the young, energetic two-weight world champion with the freakish 82″ reach is not attractive to the 37-year-old WBA welterweight champion.
“He is not really an option for me,” Mosley added. “I’m thinking about fighting Pacquiao or either Hatton or maybe Cotto.
“I’m looking for the mega-fights right now, and those are the mega-fights for me today.”
