Roach: I asked Shane if he could come down to 142 to fight Manny and he said no!

[J.B.moneY.]

What an opportunist, trying to get Mosley to do a De La Hoya. See, this is why I want Hatton to win, SSM vs Mayweather would be easier to make once that little fly and his roach are out of the picture. Hatton can stay at 140 and fight Pacquiao in a rematch or have a farewell fight at Wembley against Khan or Bradley or even Campbell(Khan makes more $en$e though).

exactly...co-sign this post....what is the fascination with the catchweights......One reason I want to see hatton win.....roach needs to come back to earth....remember that crap he said about how penalosa could beat juanma.....apparently he didnt learn his lesson.

[krispy kreme]

Roach wants all these full sized welters, who are active, to come down below 147. He did the same **** with Margarito

[Burner]

Roach wants all these full sized welters, who are active, to come down below 147. He did the same **** with Margarito

Al that does is make the Oscar win look worse and worse.....Roach knows that fight was a joke.

[-X-]

joke coach roach is putting wayyy too much value into manny, after manny loses saturday roach is gonna be devastated.

[baracuda]

What an opportunist, trying to get Mosley to do a De La Hoya. See, this is why I want Hatton to win, SSM vs Mayweather would be easier to make once that little fly and his roach are out of the picture. Hatton can stay at 140 and fight Pacquiao in a rematch or have a farewell fight at Wembley against Khan or Bradley or even Campbell(Khan makes more $en$e though).

i think you're just scared for floyd vs pac.you want pac to lose so that he won't be the 1st guy to be 4 div lineal champ which will stomp at floyd's ego even more!

[baracuda]

Al that does is make the Oscar win look worse and worse.....Roach knows that fight was a joke.

and baldo vs floyd was not right?...riiight!

[Kevin Jesus]

i think you're just scared for floyd vs pac.you want pac to lose so that he won't be the 1st guy to be 4 div lineal champ which will stomp at floyd's ego even more!

Please man, Mosley is more of a challenge than Pacquiao. Besides, everyone's bitching about Floyd needs to fight a WW, so now if he doesn't fight Pacquiao he's ducking him? I'm quite sure you'll still hate if Mayweather beats up Pacquiao.

[Benny Leonard]

Like I said many times before: I understand Freddie's logic in wanting to get fighters to be dead for the fight, but I don't agree with him. He did this with Morales which was the first fight with Roach I bitched about his tactics. Third fight I'm talking about. I wasn't paying attention if Morales had any complaints with that.

Roach even said he wanted Floyd at a catch-weight because he wanted to take something out of him for the fight. He wanted him to work for it.

Basically, if Manny doesn't have to fight a person that is alive, all the better.


I wonder what's worse to people: Asking a fighter to move up, which gives the fighter the option to come in at a weight that suits him or coming down in weight where there is more risk in looking "flat" or "dead."

To me, a healthy fighter still has a better chance at winning.




Bottom line: Roach wants Mosley only if he is dead.

[baracuda]

roach is just looking out for his fighter pac.we all know ssm is too big and roach is not about to put pac in harms way!great coach!

[Benny Leonard]

roach is just looking out for his fighter pac.we all know ssm is too big and roach is not about to put pac in harms way!great coach!

Yes, I understand it too, but it is not honorable nor a good win in my book as far as Chivalry.

I say I understand it because in War, you are allowed to think the way Roach thinks...but in boxing, I don't agree with it.

You get to choose what type of person you want to be, and Roach chooses to follow this path.

Freddie Roach is Commodus