Mosley’s Camp Setting Sights on Trinidad

Jack Mosley typically discourages training camp talk of future opponents, but the father, trainer and manager of Pomona’s World Boxing Council welterweight champion, Shane Mosley, makes an exception when the subject is Felix Trinidad Jr.

“It makes all the sense in the world,” Jack Mosley said from Big Bear, where his son is preparing for his second title defense March 10 against Australian Shannan Taylor.

“We know Trinidad is at 154 pounds and ready to move to 160. That’s OK. We can’t go all the way to 160, but we’ll move to 154 to dare to be great.”

He said the bout’s selling points are numerous. Mosley (36-0, 33 knockouts) and World Boxing Assn. light middleweight champion Trinidad (39-0, 32 KOs) stand with light heavyweight Roy Jones Jr. atop the list of best pound-for-pound boxers. Each has beaten Oscar De La Hoya. Each is handled by his father. Each has a contract with HBO/TVKO.

“I’m putting this idea out there to let the public demand it,” Jack Mosley said. “All of America would turn this fight on in a heartbeat, so would Africa, Asia, China, Poland and Ireland.”

Don King, however, is arranging a middleweight unification series involving Trinidad, WBA middleweight champion William Joppy, International Boxing Federation champion Bernard Hopkins and WBC belt-holder Keith Holmes.

Trinidad is scheduled to fight Joppy on May 5 and the winner will meet the Hopkins-Holmes winner in the fall, said Bobby Goodman, King Productions vice president of boxing operations.

“If Tito doesn’t win the Joppy fight, he’d still be the 154 champion and [Mosley] would be an option,” Goodman said. “I’m sure the Trinidad name appeals to Mosley and Trinidad has a history of fighting only the best--Pernell Whitaker, De La Hoya, Fernando Vargas. That’s what champions should do. And Mosley is in that class. [A Mosley fight] is something that, at some point, we’d be interested in.”