By Terence Dooley

Freddie Roach has stoked the flames ahead of the Floyd Mayweather versus Manny Pacquiao super-fight by claiming that he would beat Roger Mayweather, the trainer/uncle of Floyd, in a fight.  Roach told The Telegraph that Roger was a better boxer than him in the ring but insisted that he’d prevail if they met on the cobbles.

“Floyd Senior does no harm, he has his poems but he is not mean,” admitted Roach.  “Roger and I don’t get along.  He puts everybody down.  Saying Eddie Futch wasn’t sh*t and stuff like this - why say that about people who have passed away?”

He added: “He says he would knock me out, he was a better fighter than me, I know that, but I’d beat him now!  If we did fight now I’d win – but it would be on the street.  If he gets disrespectful about me he’s gonna have a fight on his hands.  It will be exciting.  I won’t take that sh*t from him.  He didn’t have that good a chin, we know that - but he could punch though.”

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