HOLLYWOOD — Shane Mosley knows that at 39, he’s only as good as his last fight goes.
That’s why the former three-division champion vows to pour everything he’s got in his May 7 showdown with pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao.
He said he had erased the words “what if” from his vocabulary.
“There’s not too many more fights on the horizon,” said Mosley during his conference call on Tuesday. “Each and every fight is very important. I have to make sure that when I leave the fight, there’s no regrets.”
So Mosley guarantees to give 100 percent, or muster whatever is left in his arsenal, when he tries to wrest Pacquiao’s World Boxing Organization welterweight crown at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Despite the 6-1 odds for Pacquiao, Mosley earnestly believes he has a good chance of ending the Filipino’s 13-bout winning streak since 2005 and vaulting back on top of the world’s elite boxers.
Having watched and then seen the fight replays on tape of Pacquiao’s 12-round domination of his former victim, Antonio Margarito, last November, Mosley said he’s confident of tagging the smaller, lighter Filipino hero.
Mosley said that if the slower Margarito could land so many punches on Pacquiao, then all the more he could, with more devastating effect.
Even if in the course of the envisioned torrid exchanges of punches he’d wind up on the shorter end, Mosley said he would not mind for as long as he had done what should be done.
Meanwhile, Pacquiao sparred for 10 rounds at the Wild Card Gym here Tuesday afternoon with Mexican lightweight Raymundo Beltran and unbeaten American welterweight Shawn Porter (18-0).
A fired-up Pacquiao allowed Beltran to hit him deliberately in the body and ribcage.
Porter, on the other hand, was given a taste of the pyompang punch (hitting both ears at the same time with open palms), similar to the one Pacquiao employed against Joshua Clottey in a 12-round unanimous decision victory last year.
Among those present during the training session were show biz couple Cesar Montano and Sunshine Cruz.