By Lem Satterfield, FanHouse
Floyd Mayweather could face the WBC's welterweight (147 pounds) super champion, Shane Mosley, on May 1 or May 8, Golden Boy Promotions CEO, Richard Schaefer, told FanHouse Monday evening.
"I've had conversations with Team Mayweather, and I'll be working in the coming hours and days toward a way that we can get this fight done. The fact is, in the sport of boxing, you may have maybe two or three true Super Fights, and this is one of those two Super Fights -- two Americans at the height of the sport's pound-for-pound list," said Schaefer.
"It would be a throw-back fight to the days when you had Sugar Ray Leonard against Thomas Hearns," said Schaefer. "This is truly at that level -- an event and a fight which will truly capture not just the boxing fans, but the general public. And I think that all of us involved in the sport of boxing feel that it's the medicine that is needed."
The 32-year-old, five-time champion, Mayweather (40-0, 25 knockouts), and the 38-year-old Mosley (46-5, 39 KOs) could meet as a result of two, lucrative pay days that fell out.
Mayweather's scheduled March 13 megabout with Manny Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KOs) unraveled as a result of a drug-testing controversy, and Mosley's Jan. 30 matchup with Andre Berto (25-0, 19 KOs) will not take place as a result of Berto's pulling out of the fight.
A Hatian American, Berto was devastated by the recent earthquake that rocked Haiti, killing untold numbers of people, including nine of his relatives.
"We are all very sorry for what Andre Berto has to go through, and I think that he's making the right decision. At this point, his place is not in the ring, it is with his people and his family," said Schaefer.
"I don't have any relatives in Haiti, but to see all the pictures and the number of people who are dead now, and what is going on, I can only imagine what Andre has had to go through," said Schaefer. "What a devastating blow. When I informed Shane Mosley about it, he very much echoed that sentiment."
After Mayweather's unanimous decision victory over Juan Manuel Marquez in September, Mosley jumped into the ring, interrupted Mayweather's post-fight interview with Max Kellerman, and challenged the unbeaten, five-time champion to make a deal to fight him.
When he discovered the fight with Berto would not take place, Mosley "made it clear to me to see if we could get" one with Mayweather, said Schaefer.
"I have May 1, and I have, May 8 on hold, and on one of the fights, I was planning to have Juan Manuel Marquez on," said Schaefer. "So, I have to see now if -- with the whole Berto situation happening -- I have to see if it's going to be possible to put together a Mayweather-Mosley fight."
Source: boxing.fanhouse.com
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