Pacquiao-Mosley set for May 7

Pacquiao-Mosley set for May 7

Pacquiao-Mosley set for May 7

Former three-division best Shane Mosley will booty on WBO welterweight best Manny Pacquiao on May 7 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Top Rank apostle Bob Arum told SI.com.

The action will be answer by Top Rank and be at the welterweight absolute of 147 pounds.

Mosley, 39, had been advised the admired of a three-candidate acreage to action Pacquiao that included failing best Juan Manuel Marquez and welterweight best Andre Berto. Arum said he presented Pacquiao with these options afterwards consulting with Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, and Top Rank agent Bruce Trampler.

Roach has been articulate in his action of a action with Mosley, cogent SI.com in November that he "didn't see abundant of a point" in a Mosley action and that he adopted a third action with Marquez to "shut Marquez up." According to Arum, Roach's assessment afflicted afterwards spending a anniversary with Arum and Pacquiao in the Philippines.

"He angry around," Arum said. "He was an apostle [for the fight]."

Arum has taken some criticism over his alternative for a action with Mosley. Mosley has struggled in his aftermost two fights, a biased accident to Floyd Mayweather aftermost May and a draw adjoin Sergio Mora in September. Many in the battle industry believed a action with Marquez, who battled Pacquiao to a draw in 2004 and absent a attenuated accommodation to the Filipino in 2008, was the bigger choice.

"I try to booty the beating of bodies who are non-boxing fans," Arum said. "And to them, after catechism Shane Mosley is at the arch of the pack. I apperceive there were some issues aural the battle association that maybe Marquez was added deserving. But bodies don't apperceive Marquez, and alike beneath apperceive Berto. Their Q appraisement doesn't resonate. To anybody I allocution to about the world, it's consistently Mosley."

As for Mayweather, Arum said he would accept waited to accomplish a accord with the above pound-for-pound best if Mayweather had accustomed him any adumbration he was absorbed in the fight. Mayweather is due in cloister abutting ages to face four abomination accuse stemming from a calm adventure in September.

"We put it off as continued as we could," Arum said. "He has been absolutely incommunicado. All he had to do was aces up a buzz and say, 'Hey Bob, delay a week, two weeks' and we would accept waited. He could accept accustomed us a signal. No one knows how to get a authority of him. The alone ones who apperceive how to get a authority of him are the police."

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