SO at last Floyd Mayweather has signed to face Shane Mosley on May 1 in Las Vegas.
No fight could be as big as Mayweather-Pacquiao right now, but Mayweather-Mosley is a more than decent match-up.
Mosley may be 38 and hasn't fought since last January but he's a former P4P No 1 with a very impressive CV.
He'd be a much bigger name if some of his promoters had really got behind him and he's the kind of fighter that I would like to have worked with.
When Mosley beat Oscar De La Hoya a decade ago he should have become a major name.
He appeared at Madison Square Garden in his next fight but in the theatre, rather than its main arena.
The winner of Mayweather-Mosley should, logically, face the winner of Pacquiao's fight next month with Joshua Clottey.
There are some big fights on the horizon and it's going to be interesting to see how UK TV is going to broadcast them.
Haye-Ruiz on April 3 is on Sky pay-per-view and Amir Khan's proposed fight on May 15 against Juan Manuel Marquez is also likely to be only available to those who pay for it.
Whether Sky will gamble on making Mayweather-Mosley PPV as well remains to be seen. Meanwhile WBC super-middleweight champion Carl Froch was kicking up a fuss about having to go to Herning in Denmark to face Mikkel Kessler.
Froch wanted the fight in Copenhagen so British fans could get there, but once he'd made the decision to fight abroad, he couldn't really have much complaint about the venue.
Our fighters have gone to far worse places over the years - I'm sure Herning is a walk in the park compared to South America - and Froch fought Jermain Taylor in the back of beyond in the States.
Back in the day, Ken Buchanan went to Puerto Rico to win his world title, and his fans couldn't even watch the fight on television at home.
I remember taking Robin Reid when he won his WBC title in Italy against Vincenzo Nardiello, Robin coped with the hostile reception well.
From my experience of promoting in Copenhagen, the fans there are some of the best in the world, and really appreciate their boxing. He should have just got on with it this week because he's now got a great chance of beating Kessler on April 17. The Dane looked awful in his last fight.
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MANNY PACQUIAO has just been voted the American Boxing Writers' Association boxer of the year for the third time, putting him level with Muhammad Ali and Evander Holyfield.
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THE rematch the world wants to see has been announced - Roy Jones against Bernard Hopkins, nearly 20 years after they first fought. Hopkins is hanging in there, but Jones is an irrelevance. Who cares?
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THIS week Bob Arum said he wouldn't pass comment on whether or not Ricky Hatton should keep on fighting.
Tellingly, though, he said that if Hatton was his son, he'd tell him to quit.
"Obviously Ricky's priority should be his health and safety," said Arum.
Source: thesun.co.uk
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