By Mark Vester

Freddie Roach, who trains both Amir Khan and pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao, says the two fighters will never meet in the ring on his watch. Pacquiao made his junior welterweight debut last Saturday night, knocking out Ricky Hatton in two rounds to become the number one fighter at the weight. Khan moves up to junior welterweight on June 27 and challenges WBA champion Andreas Kotelnik. Recently Khan said that he would like to fight his way to the point where people consider him the best, pound for pound. To do that, he would have to cross paths with Pacquiao, but Roach says that he will prevent that from taking place.

Roach would like to see Pacquiao have two more mega-fights and then call it a career.

“They spar together and they’ve become great friends so I don’t think we will see them fighting each other for real. I’d like Manny to have two more fights and then be done with it. As trainer of both of them, I’m going to try to prevent them from fighting each other,” Roach told The Daily Star.

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