Shane Mosley is eyeing a fight with Floyd Mayweather next year and proposing the winner claim most of the purse. By George Willis

Shane Mosley is eyeing a fight with Floyd Mayweather early next year if he can get past Miguel Cotto and his father Jack Mosley wouldn’t mind if the percentage of the purse were based on the outcome.

“You can do a 55-45 with the winner getting 55,” said Jack Mosley of a possible fight with Mayweather. “Everything is negotiable. You’ve got to be creative. Let the winner get the most money. Or we can even do winner take all. If you think you’re going to win, let’s do it. If he doesn’t think he’s going to win, he ain’t going to do it.”

A fight with Mayweather could be the final challenge of Shane Mosley’s boxing career. “If he beats Mayweather, who is there to fight?” Jack Mosley said. “It’s about money now. So who’s going to bring the money?”

The prospect of fighting Mayweather is one of the motivating factors for Mosley not to look past Cotto. “You don’t want to look past this fight because this fight can take us to Floyd Mayweather, which would be a big fight,” Jack Mosley said. “He’s popular. Shane’s popular. Floyd runs his mouth a lot. That’s what people want to see. So that makes it a big fight.”

Actually, boxing fans have Mayweather to thank for Cotto-Mosley, according to Top Rank president Todd duBoef, who said Mayweather had his choice of Mosley or Cotto, but instead will face Ricky Hatton on Dec. 8 in Las Vegas. Cotto and Mosley are “fighting because Mayweather didn’t want to fight either of them,” duBoef said. “There was a deal done for Mayweather to fight Mosley going into the Oscar fight, and he didn’t want to go through with that. I understand why. He wanted to take the easiest fight for the most money and tell everybody how ‘I’m pound for pound the best fighter who ever lived.’ Hatton couldn’t go five rounds with either Cotto or Mosley.”