Floyd Mayweather is likely to face Shane Mosley on May 1 at a site to be determined, according to a source.

Mayweather (40-0, 25 knockouts), whose scheduled March 13 megabout with Manny Pacquiao (50-3-2, 38 KOs) did not take place due to a drug-testing controversy, is still tentatively scheduled to face an opponent to be determined on March 13, likely in Las Vegas.

Andre Berto (25-0, 19 KOs) is scheduled to defend his WBC welterweight title against the 38-year-old Mosley (46-5, 39 KOs), the WBC super champion, on Jan. 30 in a highly-anticipated clash at at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.

Neither Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer nor Mayweather’s adviser Leonard Ellerbe of Mayweather Promotions could be reached for comment.

It is unclear whether or not Mayweather will retain his plans to face an opponent on March 13.

But last week, the Nevada State Athletic Commission tabled Mayweather’s March 13 date scheduled for the MGM until an opponent is determined, said commission director Keith Kizer.

“[The commission] has postponed consideration of the March 13 date by Golden Boy at the MGM just because under our policy, the commission needs to know the main event, the television situation and the site for any request for a large event,” said Kizer. “For the bigger fights, the commission normally wants the situation and the event for a big fight like a Mayweather fight to be set. So the commission looks forward to having that on its next agenda once the main event has been set by Golden Boy Promotions.”

After Mayweather’s unanimous decision victory over Juan Manuel Marquez in September, Mosley jumped into the ring, interrupted Mayweather’s post-fight interview with Max Kellerman, and challenged the unbeaten, five-time champion to make a deal to fight him.

Mayweather, however, has insisted that he has called out Mosley in the past, when the latter still was a 135-pound champion, and Mayweather a 130-pound titlist.

That time was in 1999, when Mayweather still was the WBC’s super featherweight champion.

In April of that year, Mosley defended his IBF lightweight title for the last time with an eighth-round knockout of John Brown.

But in September 1999, Mosley passed over the junior welterweight (140 pounds) class and jumped straight into the welterweight (147 pounds) division.

There, Mosley scored consecutive knockouts over Wlfredo Rivera and Willy Wise before dethroning Oscar De La Hoya as WBC champion by split-decision in January 2000.

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