http://www.boxingnews24.com/2009/07/did-pacquiao-duck-mosley/
"It’s true that Cotto has a 12 round decision win over Mosley in 2007, but Cotto doesn’t look to be the same fighter he was back then. He was beaten badly in a loss to Antonio Margarito last year and hasn’t looked the same since then. Cotto looked less than convincing in beating Joshua Clottey in a 12 round split decision last month."
"Pacquiao is a great fighter, but it seems like he did a duck job in bypassing a fight against Mosley for a bout against Cotto. If Mosley wasn’t fighting so well right now, I could understand Pacquiao not wanting to fight him. But the fact remains that Mosley just recently defeated arguably the toughest fighter in the welterweight division in Antonio Margarito. So why isn’t Pacquiao fighting Mosley rather than Cotto?"
That would explain a lot, wouldn’t it? Things were easy for Pacquiao and Roach to dismiss a fight with Mosley earlier when he said that he wasn’t interested in coming down to 143. However, when Mosley stepped up and called their bluff by saying that he would not only come down to 143, he’d also be willing to fight Pacquiao at an even lower weight than that by fighting him at 140.
"This offer fell on deaf ears and was seemingly ignored by Pacquiao’s management team. It seems as if Pacquiao’s management team were never seriously interested in a fight with Mosley, because if they were, the 140 and the offer of a smaller pay cut, they should have been enough to make the fight happen."
"It’s true that Cotto has a 12 round decision win over Mosley in 2007, but Cotto doesn’t look to be the same fighter he was back then. He was beaten badly in a loss to Antonio Margarito last year and hasn’t looked the same since then. Cotto looked less than convincing in beating Joshua Clottey in a 12 round split decision last month."
"Pacquiao is a great fighter, but it seems like he did a duck job in bypassing a fight against Mosley for a bout against Cotto. If Mosley wasn’t fighting so well right now, I could understand Pacquiao not wanting to fight him. But the fact remains that Mosley just recently defeated arguably the toughest fighter in the welterweight division in Antonio Margarito. So why isn’t Pacquiao fighting Mosley rather than Cotto?"
That would explain a lot, wouldn’t it? Things were easy for Pacquiao and Roach to dismiss a fight with Mosley earlier when he said that he wasn’t interested in coming down to 143. However, when Mosley stepped up and called their bluff by saying that he would not only come down to 143, he’d also be willing to fight Pacquiao at an even lower weight than that by fighting him at 140.
"This offer fell on deaf ears and was seemingly ignored by Pacquiao’s management team. It seems as if Pacquiao’s management team were never seriously interested in a fight with Mosley, because if they were, the 140 and the offer of a smaller pay cut, they should have been enough to make the fight happen."