NEW YORK, (CMC) - The world's top-rated welterweight boxer Shane Mosley has reiterated a fight plan that does not include Guyana's unbeaten World Boxing Association (WBA) champion Andrew `Sixhead’ Lewis.

Mosley, holder of the World Boxing Council (WBC) belt, is frustrated by his inability to secure a big money bout this year, and intends to move up to the super-welterweight division.

"When I move up to 154 (pounds), I'll be inside the circle with (Oscar) De La Hoya, (Fernando) Vargas, and maybe (Felix) Trinidad," Mosley told reporters this past weekend.

Mosley, widely regarded as one of the world's best boxers pound for pound, made no mention of Lewis in the interview.

Boxing experts had been projecting a welterweight unification series earlier this year, after Lewis impressively dismissed American James Page for the WBA belt and Vernon Forrest, of the USA, whipped Guyanese Rawl Frank for the International Boxing Federation (IBF) crown.

But there has only been some demand for a Forrest-Mosley bout, which has not materialised because Forrest had been holding out for a US$2 million purse which promoters rejected.

Mosley's career peaked when he won a majority decision over de la Hoya in June last year, and his victims' list since then has no huge names - Antonio Diaz, Shannon Taylor, and Adrian Stone, all in small ballrooms.

He is currently taking aim at the now vacant IBF super-welterweight title, to be decided when Winky Wright meets Robert Frazier this Friday night in Indio, California.

Lewis is recovering from facial cuts he suffered when an accidental clash of heads reduced his title defence against Nicaragua's Ricardo Mayorga to a no-contest this summer.

The two are expected to meet again later this year, or early next year for Lewis' WBA belt.