“Floyd did the math and Floyd is saying, ‘Why should I take a potentially difficult bout against Mosley for $10 million or less when I get $40 million or more to fight Manny Pacquiao, and that could be an easier fight to win?,” this mysterious in-the-know person has said. Question is, is it true?

The answer – no way! Mayweather v Mosley is a dead certainty and Mayweather Mosley tickets are going to be one of the biggest selling boxing tickets this year. The gossipers are too busy contradicting themselves to give Money May and his fists time to talk. Fact is, Mayweather tickets are still the top draw in world boxing and Mosley represents a huge challenge in what is the most electric boxing scene in decades. With a host of other up-and-comers, like Imran Khan and Cesar Seda Jr., 2010 boxing will be as good as last year, and that is talking!

“Shane has signed. I sat with him and we went through every provision of the contract and he signed,” Mosley’s attorney Judd Burstein has announced, adding, “he is excited to move forward with the bout.”

Mayweather was free to fight once his disastrous plan to fight Pacquiao collapsed, with pound-for-pound king Pacquiao off to fight Joshua Clottey at the Cowboys Stadium. Pacquiao v. Clottey tickets are also selling well, as America eagerly buys up tickets to any fight these two are involved in. The row over what drug testing protocol to employ in the run-in to the Mayweather Pacquiao bout was what ruined things, but everyone is hopeful that someday these men will go toe-to-toe and we’ll finally see who is the true king of world boxing. Negotiations immediately began for the Mayweather Mosley fight and Mayweather Mosley tickets have begun to move in serious quantity as the fight date looms.

In an almost comical coincidence, Mosley has agreed to random blood and urine testing, the very sticking point that derailed the Mayweather v. Pacqiuao fight. Maybe this time the two will be fighting and Mayweather v. Mosley tickets will be in your hands and worth their weight in gold!

The mind games are well and truly underway and Mayweather’s staff have been accused of trying to deflect criticism and suspicion of their
own fighter over the use of performance-enhancing substances. Today, Christmas Eve, it looks like the fight is back on again, or at least definitely not off, whatever the difference is.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has demanded that Pacquiao be drug tested 30 days before the bout, but Pacquiao told Top Rank president Todd duBoef that he would go ahead with a test if it’s done prior to the kick-off press conference and again after the fight. Mayweather’s camp’s claims that Pacquiao is relying on using performance-enhancers is seen by many as a sign of anxiety on their part that Pacquiao will strip Mayweather of his “Undefeated” status. All in all, it makes for a great build-up to what will be the greatest boxing match in a long time. Both Mayweather and Pacman are ready for this, but right now it is the American who seems to have blinked first. Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is playing a cool game, and only responding to Mayweather’s taunts rather than contributing to the general air of madness that always precedes a big bout like this. A sense of good guy versus bad guy is being built up superbly as the world prepares to buy Mayweather v. Pacquiao tickets and take a ringside seat for a smashing fight.

The question of whether the drug test fight was merely to stir interest in the fight or to play havoc with the mind of Pacquiao goes unresolved as yet. The Mayweather team are using expressions like “level the playing field” in reference to the alleged claims of Pacman’s drug use – and this is surely to plant in the minds of spectators that their man is under some kind of disadvantage. Either way, it shows Mayweather is taking Pacquiao very seriously – a sharp contrast to how he approached the Marquez fight.

Mayweather’s zero loss record is something he prizes greatly, and one he wants to take into retirement. It is in his nature to use any device he can to swerve media scrutiny of his own game and pile the pressure on his opponent. The whole thing makes for a grand ol’ run in to this absolutely sterling match up between boxing’s two best fighters. Pacquiao is a focused man, though, and under Roach he will be sequestered far from the nonsense of the boxing mind games. The trash talking is not for him. Pacquiao prefers to let his fighting do the talking instead, but against a foe as formidable as Money May he will need to bring it, big time.

Pacquiao has earned the right make his own counterargument to the drug test conditions that Mayweather’s camp are forcing upon him. It’s been said that the boxing authority make the rules, not Floyd Mayweather, and that is the way it should be. Come on and buy tickets to Mayweather boxing Pacquiao – it’s gonna rock and you just have to be there!

The expected mind games between the two boxing camps has already started. Perhaps Mayweather’s preparations have called for head games as one of their chief strategies. Floyd Mayweather, Sr , Mayweather’s boxing trainer father, has begun to ask questions of Pacquiao’s ability to dominate seven different weight classes. Mayweather Sr. has even gone so far as to infer that Pacman may have used performance-enhancing drugs to achieve the superhuman feat. The pseudo-scandal only serves to ramp up the demand for Manny Pacquiao tickets.

The more experienced player, Mayweather, is seeking to put Pacquiao on the back foot before he even steps into the ring. Undoubtedly, Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach, will be reassuring the fabled Pacman that it is just talk, and not to pay any mind to it. Roach proudly points out that Manny has never failed a drug test, and perhaps this will be enough to silence that particular Mayweather smear campaign. Both fighters are prepared to undergo drug testing before the fight, invasive as it may be. Blood tests at UCLA have been mentioned as the test of choice. Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is said to be angry at the Mayweather drug allegations. Roach didn’t hesitate to offer his man up for testing. So let the games begin…