Freddie Roach, "Miguel Cotto is no longer the same fighter, he's finished!"

[kadyo's]

of course you were affected freddie, you got ****ing parkison for christs sake!

You gave yourself a heart? that maybe gay to some but i don't know.

[Akyra]

You gave yourself a heart? that maybe gay to some but i don't know.

what are you talking about?

[DiLLiNGER]

roach is rite..i want cotto to win but pacman is gonna be over him like a fat kid over a cake.

[hugh grant]

Cotto might not be the same, but hes still winning. He beat his last opponent who was not too bad as well.
Margarito is his only clear loss. So he is still handy thats for sure. Still fighting good opponents and being declared the winner, like pac is also

[kadyo's]

what are you talking about?

you just took it out. Feeling guilty?

[The Underboss]

He might not be the same, but he can still give Pac trouble.

I can't believe freddy is actually telling Pac this, so that he can get careless in the fight and loses .

[go1nbanana]

holy ****, you're totally right. firing his sparring partner is highly suspect. roach knows what he's talking about, and sadly, he's probably right about Cotto.

another is sign is that cotto seems to talk a lot now..he's doing the talking (in 3rd person) saying "cotto is a different fighter..cotto will win, cotto is confident" things...you say that to yourself when your really not confident.

[Adamantium]

Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach said at Wednesday's news conference that he has watched enough film of Cotto in the past few months to see that he isn't the same fighter he was before getting beat by Margarito.

"I can go by my own experience," said Roach, who fought as a lightweight in the 1980s. "I won 27 fights before I got knocked out and it changed my life.

"I was never quite as confident and I wasn't invincible anymore. At one time nobody could hurt me.

"If you go from being a world champion and having that ego and being undefeated when you lose for the first time it definitely affects you and the punishment he (Cotto) took in that fight was severe and sometimes you never come back from a beating like that.

"He is on the road to a comeback but he is still not the same."


PUT YOUR MONEY ON PACQUIAO BY KO!

That little ***er Roach said the same thing about Oscar being finished after Forbes busted him up, and he said that Hatton was finished after getting ktfo by Mayweather. I remember Roach saying Hatton was on shaky legs against Lazcano and his career was over after the Mayweather fight.

Once again, PUT YOUR MONEY ON PACQUIAO BY KO!

Roach is going to go 3 out of 3 with Pacquiao facing leftovers. His timing when to choose these big names is simply IMPECCABLE.

Sorry Cotto fans. We all laughed when Roach said Pacquiao would KO Oscar. Little did we know Valero was beating the **** out of Oscar in sparring, proof that Oscar was completely finished and didn't belong in the ring anymore. Then we get Hatton... Floyd Sr said he was getting his $ss whooped by 3 round semi-professional fighters in sparring. You can't get blood out of a stone. It's HIGHLY su****ious why Cotto fired his sparring partner. It's happening again folks!

Pac by KO round 6

If Roach truly believes this, why did he want Cotto to weigh in at 143 lbs? His damaged goods but to be on the safe side I want him dead at the weight.

[Gonzalez_Boxing]

Of course Roach thinks he's finished, why do you think they took the fight?


You don't have to be a genius to follow his pattern. He said it straight out before or after Manny's last big fights. Roach is actually doing a disservice to Manny by going on record with some of his quotes.

Hatton = Not that good, thought he was finished.

De La Hoya = couldn't pull the trigger, thought he was finished.

Cotto = Not the same after Margarito, thinks he's finished. Just in case he's not, let's try to drain him a little bit to gain an advantage.

[namme]

If Roach truly believes this, why did he want Cotto to weigh in at 143 lbs? His damaged goods but to be on the safe side I want him dead at the weight.

Because for Roach, Cotto is still very DANGEROUS for Pacquiao, but not as dangerous as before he lost to Margarito.