Roach on Steroid Allegations

**Al Haymon** · 09-15-2009, 06:22 PM

Originally posted by rao007

Source: Fanhouse

Satterfield: Did you hear that Floyd Sr. implied to the Michigan's Grand Rapids Press -- Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s home newspaper -- that Manny Pacquiao has been on steroids?

Roach: Well [chuckles], we have taken him a couple of times to be tested, and we haven't tested positive yet. I think he's wrong, but all Manny's on is white rice."Steroids? Where in the hell did that come from? You know, these guys, they had to come up with a reason why they lost. They lost because [Floyd Sr.] sucks as a trainer and I had the better fighter."

Satterfield: Why do you believe that Floyd Sr. would say something like that?

Roach: Steroids? Where in the hell did that come from? You know, these guys, they had to come up with a reason why they lost. They lost because [Floyd Sr.] sucks as a trainer and I had the better fighter

OK.... I do not like the way FR answered that. I never like the "we never tested positive" answer.

**AnimalisticMeth** · 09-15-2009, 06:23 PM

Originally posted by rao007

Source: Fanhouse

Satterfield: Did you hear that Floyd Sr. implied to the Michigan's Grand Rapids Press -- Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s home newspaper -- that Manny Pacquiao has been on steroids?

Roach: Well [chuckles], we have taken him a couple of times to be tested, and we haven't tested positive yet. I think he's wrong, but all Manny's on is white rice."Steroids? Where in the hell did that come from? You know, these guys, they had to come up with a reason why they lost. They lost because [Floyd Sr.] sucks as a trainer and I had the better fighter."

Satterfield: Why do you believe that Floyd Sr. would say something like that?

Roach: Steroids? Where in the hell did that come from? You know, these guys, they had to come up with a reason why they lost. They lost because [Floyd Sr.] sucks as a trainer and I had the better fighter

He thinks Floyd Sr is wrong? Don't you have to know for sure?

**rao007** · 09-15-2009, 06:25 PM

Sorry, copied it incorrectly. It's fixed now.

**ИATAS** · 09-15-2009, 06:28 PM

More important part of the article:

Satterfield: Why do you believe that Floyd Sr. would say something like that?
Roach: Steroids? Where in the hell did that come from? You know, these guys, they had to come up with a reason why they lost. They lost because [Floyd Sr.] sucks as a trainer and I had the better fighter.

Satterfield: How are you preparing for a Miguel Cotto -- a big, strong guy, whose punch output was incredible against Joshua Clottey?

Roach: Miguel Cotto had a good fight against Joshua Clottey. He's obviously better. That was a great win over Clottey, who is a tough guy. He showed some signs of wear and tear from the Margarito fight, but I look at it more like it's as if he got himself back into the groove of things, which is why he is training camp early. He's gotten his confidence back and he's taking this fight against Manny very seriously.

Satterfield: Will any part of your strategy be to make Miguel Cotto remember what it was like to be in those wars with Antonio Margarito and Clottey, as if he's in the 13th round, or, even, the 25th round?

Roach: Of course. We're definitely going to try to do that. The thing is, though, I'm expecting Miguel Cotto to be better in this fight. So I'm watching more tapes of the old Cotto, when he beat Zab Judah, the southpaw, and when he beat Shane Moseley.

I'm watching the Clottey fight a little bit, but I expect Migel Cotto to be back to his best because I believe that the Clottey fight gave him a lot more confidence. Is Cotto totally back yet? Is his confidence 100 percent back yet? That's hard to say.

But I know that beating Clottey had to help him. I think that he's definitely heading in the right direction. So we're preparing as if he'll be back to the way that he was against Judah and Moseley.

**rao007** · 09-15-2009, 06:30 PM

Originally posted by Al Haymon

OK.... I do not like the way FR answered that. I never like the "we never tested positive" answer.

If you were presented that question, how would you answer?

**ianblake** · 09-15-2009, 06:40 PM

They lost because [Floyd Sr.] sucks as a trainer and I had the better fighter.

owned

**GrandMasterP** · 09-15-2009, 06:40 PM

Originally posted by rao007

If you were presented that question, how would you answer?

no, he isnt on steroids?

**Al Haymon** · 09-15-2009, 06:42 PM

Originally posted by rao007

If you were presented that question, how would you answer?

About the guy I'm training who doesn't do steroids?... or about Manny?

:-)

**JM1** · 09-15-2009, 06:43 PM

Originally posted by ИATAS206

More important part of the article:

Satterfield: Why do you believe that Floyd Sr. would say something like that?
Roach: Steroids? Where in the hell did that come from? You know, these guys, they had to come up with a reason why they lost. They lost because [Floyd Sr.] sucks as a trainer and I had the better fighter.

Roach on Steroid Allegations