Roach "We need a tune up" Before Mayweather.

[el malo]

damn,if this is true now i gotta take back what i said about floyd fighting pac in march or ducking him.

[COACH WEBB]

my mistake. As confirmed by the article, they have a march date open and as confirmed by the article quoting Arum AND Roach (since we're going by what roach says) the Mayweather camp doesnt want March.

do you NOT see what Roach said....

“The Mayweather fight is the fight the world wants to see,” Roach said. “It’s going to be the biggest pay-per-view fight of all time. But I think we will fight one fight before that.”

Roach said that Pacquiao’s schedule will be constructed around his political ambitions and the elections in the Philippines on May 10. “But there is a March date for him to fight,” Roach said. “People think I am crazy but I want him to win his eighth title against Yuri Foreman at 154lb. That’s my idea — then fight Mayweather in September. And then retire.”

[2501]

I'm not afraid to take my licks unlike you cats. I ****ed up on the date, but doesn't really reveal anything other than March being open and considering Yuri Foreman because the Mayweather camp is declining to fight in March

[Calilloyd]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/spo...cle6938146.ece


The contest that every boxing fan wants to see may have to wait because Manny Pacquiao is being groomed for an even more audacious challenge before he takes on his last great, unconquered rival, Floyd Mayweather Jr.

While the deal-makers work on Pacquiao-Mayweather, Freddie Roach, the Filipino’s trainer, has ambitions for his boxer to go up yet another weight and claim a world title at an eighth weight division. Roach, specifically, has his eyes on Yuri Foreman, the New York-based Israeli, who is the World Boxing Association light-middleweight champion.

Pacquiao won his first world title at flyweight, which is up to eight stone. If he moves up another weight he will be competing at 11 stone.

The 30-year-old was already breaking new ground when he beat Miguel Cotto, on November 14, to win a world title in a seventh different weight division. It was after that victory at welterweight that he said that he believed his ascent through the weights had come to a natural end. However, Roach clearly has other ideas — and Pacquiao tends to follow his advice.

“The Mayweather fight is the fight the world wants to see,” Roach said. “It’s going to be the biggest pay-per-view fight of all time. But I think we will fight one fight before that.”

Roach said that Pacquiao’s schedule will be constructed around his political ambitions and the elections in the Philippines on May 10. “But there is a March date for him to fight,” Roach said. “People think I am crazy but I want him to win his eighth title against Yuri Foreman at 154lb. That’s my idea — then fight Mayweather in September. And then retire.”

The way Roach sees it, there will be no further blemishes on Pacquiao’s record by the time he greets retirement, although he does concede that Mayweather will be “the hardest fight of his life”.

“Mayweather’s a very difficult fight for Manny,” he said. “It won’t be physically the hardest, but it will be the hardest fight of his life style-wise. Mayweather is talented and he’s good at defence. I have a very good game plan for him, but I’m sure a lot of other guys thought that along the way.

“We’ll have a ten-week training camp. We have to work on a lot of new moves, we have to improve in certain areas to win that fight.” And would he expect his man to win? “Oh yes. Without a doubt.”

This is, of course, a different view to that espoused by Mayweather after he had witnessed Pacquiao’s brutal demolition of Cotto. Mayweather described Pacquiao as “easy work, easy fight. I don’t see no versatility in Manny Pacquiao. I see just a fighter, you know, a good puncher, but just one dimension.”

It is not as if it would need Mayweather’s familiar bragging to sell this one, but he may have to bite his tongue for a while. If Roach gets his way, Pacquiao’s first stop is with Foreman, who was born in Belarus when it was still part of the Soviet Union.

The 29-year-old moved to Israel when he was 9 and is as serious about ******* as he is about his boxing. Foreman boxes with the Star of David stitched on to his shorts and he is also an aspiring rabbi.

LOL Thanks for this. There will be an unusual amount of absent people from this thread.

[Doctor_Tenma]

damn,if this is true now i gotta take back what i said about floyd fighting pac in march or ducking him.

Mayweather and Pacquiao know the risk of facing eachother. All I'm hoping for is that Mayweather faces a south paw, a good one at that.

[Ray*]

This is what have been telling pac fans and the people who doesnt like Mayweather, Calm the phuck down it takes two to tango and a fight of this magnitude takes time, Blaming one part is making us look ******.

Relax and let us see what happens in days or weeks to come instead of acting like ******s..

[COACH WEBB]

I'm not afraid to take my licks unlike you cats. I ****ed up on the date, but doesn't really reveal anything other than March being open and considering Yuri Foreman because the Mayweather camp is declining to fight in March

where you getting the bold from? the Mayweather camp has not even spoke out. of course Roach will say that. However, ROACH HAS stated that they want YORI FIRST, WHICH WOULD BE THE MARCH DATE.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

man, **** this fight...this kind of posturing is annoying

[Calilloyd]

Yo Kobe, tell me how my ass taste?!

[COACH WEBB]

This is what have been telling pac fans and the people who doesnt like Mayweather, Calm the phuck down it takes two to tango and a fight of this magnitude takes time, Blaming one part is making us look ******.

Relax and let us see what happens in days or weeks to come instead of acting like ******s..

exactly. but alot of these guys don't know how to act. the boxing media had put the image of Floyd ducking eVERY fighter in the world in their head, so since this first hasn't been made yet (its still early), Floyd is doing what he "normally does". good find though.