Mosley Vs Mayweather set For May showdown

From Official Sugar Shane Mosley Website

"Sugar Shane Mosley will defend his WBA world welterweight title against Floyd Mayweather Jr in early May. The worst kept secret in boxing could be announced as early as next week.

Out of respect to Haitian-American WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto who pulled out of his scheduled January 30th unification fight with Mosley in the wake of the Haitian earthquake that claimed the lives of several members of his family, all negotiations have been done quietly behind closed doors.



Both Mosley and Mayweather (40-0, 25 ko´s) have promotional ties with Golden Boy Promotions; Mayweather is co-promoted by them in conjunction with his own promotional company in a setup similar to the deal Golden Boy has with David Haye and his Hayemaker Promotions.



Mosley (46-5, 39 ko´s) is promoted by and is a partner in Golden Boy Promotions. GBP´s CEO Richard Schaefer is handling negotiations on behalf of Mosley.



Golden Boy have two dates in mind for the Mosley v Mayweather superfight; the 1st and the 8th of May. GBP have options on both of those dates with the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. Negotiations between the camps of Mayweather and Mosley are apparently going much smoother than the shenanigans that unfolded between the camps of Mayweather and Pacquiao.



Mayweather´s adviser Richard Ellerbe told the Los Angeles Times this week:

"It's like a breath of fresh air, and I'm sure you understand what I'm referring to. Things are going very smoothly. It's a mega, mega-fight, and we're happy that we're going to be able to give the boxing fans what they want to see."



It is understood that Mosley will give into Mayweather´s demands for blood testing before the fight. It was disagreements surrounding blood testing protocol that ultimately led to the collapse of Mayweather v Pacquiao negotiations.



Richard Ellerbe said on the matter:



"Floyd has made it clear that any man who steps into the ring against him must agree to random blood and urine tests."



Sugar sweet: Mosley camp says Mayweather talks 'cordial'
Wednesday, January 27, 2010


It’s the usual fight before the fight.

Sugar Shane Mosley and Floyd Mayweather representatives are squabbling over how to split all the revenue for the All American matchup of two top tier welterweights. Both sides are still working towards a May 1 or May 8 Las Vegas date.

“Talks are ongoing and the talks are completely cordial,” a source in the Mosley camp reported to me Monday. “There are no huge issues.”

That’s a mirror quote of what Mayweather adviser Laughing Lenny Ellerbe told the Los Angeles Times a few days back. In fact, Ellerbe also used the adjective “cordial.”

While a source inside Money May’s camp informed over the weekend that L’il Floyd has questioned whether it’s smart business for him to take a much smaller yet still rich purse for a dangerous bout against the still formidable at age 39 Mosley, I now don’t place too much emphasis on any lingering doubts Mayweather may harbor.

At some point, it behooves Mosley, Mayweather and promoter Golden Boy, which still has the golden “output contract” with HBO, to dance to the music requested by the prime cable network’s boxing bossman, Ross Greenburg.

When the Manny Pacquiao-Mayweather talks crashed over random blood testing, there was little Greenburg could do. He still salvaged a hot property for his employer by getting all over the Pacman-Joshua Clottey “Event” set for March 13 at the sparkling, new Dallas Cowboys stadium Jerry Jones had built in Arlington.

Greenburg has to be pleased seeing that, on the first full business day (Saturday) at the Cowboys box office, 20,000 tickets went out the window. And the Top Rank promotion has yet to officially announce the return on the show of Mexican star Antonio Margarito and to begin implementing a sales drive in northern Mexico, centered about Monterey, which is a Cowboys football hotbed.

If the promotion continues en fuego, who is to say there might not be 50,000 rear ends parked in the mammoth stadium’s seats, providing a dramatic backdrop for the PPV telecast.

Now if HBO gets to dress up Mosley-Mayweather, the prime cable network has gained two huge attractions and lost only the mildly interesting Mosley-Andre Berto bout.

Obviously the unbeaten Berto, who withdraw from the Jan. 30 Mosley date due to turmoil in his family’s homeland of Haiti, is not the ratings magnet that bigger, longer established stars like Shane and Floyd are.

That’s why Mosley-Berto was scheduled for regular HBO and not PPV TV.

 

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