Roach "We need a tune up" Before Mayweather.

[Iceta]

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.

I hate Floyd Mayweather, but with that said, if Pacquiao goes in this direction and blows off Mayweather in favor of a fight at 154, that's garbage. It's a duck. I supported Pacquiao against Cotto, but this hop skotching weight classes beating up on weak links doesn't do it for me.

[djsygo]

Pac wants Floyd. But not Freddy. Freddy knows boxing inside out, he can see advantages and flaws in every fighter. He always knows whats the weakness in every Pac opponent of late, and he doesnt make it a secret.

But with Floyd, he cannot stay coherent.

First he says Floyd might be too much, then he says Floyd is fragile, then he says he wins by KO, then by decision, then he wants him next, then he needs a tuneup. Truth his he hasnt solved his puzzle this time but he needs to keep up his Nostradamus aurea

[RodBarker]

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

Ya back peddling weasel , drop ya hate bull**** , Roach dont want the fight in march , how the *** can he and have a tune up as well , you lose and there is no second prizes .

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Ya back peddling weasel , drop ya hate bull**** , Roach dont want the fight in march , how the *** can he and have a tune up as well , you lose and there is no second prizes .

I think floyd wants to fight this guy first

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[RodBarker]

[QUOTE=Pullcounter;6841347]I think floyd wants to fight this guy first

I think your full of **** , Matt Hatton lol , only an idiot would entertain Floyd would fight a Lovemore Ndou draw class of fighter , your not being smart mate you actually show what a dimwit ya are

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I think your full of **** , Matt Hatton lol , only an idiot would entertain Floyd would fight a Lovemore Ndou draw class of fighter , your not being smart mate you actually show what a dimwit ya are

be honest with your self.... isn't fighting matt hatton something floyd would do just to piss everyone off and make people want to see him lose even more??? its a classic douche bag move.

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[No Ceiling]

roach changed his mind probably

[Haterfree]

I would be shocked if Pacman ever actually got in the ring with Floyd. Roach will come up with all types of $h!t.

[gqjohnb]

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

agreed.....

[tibbar]

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

If that isn't pure duckingness of all duckness, I don't know what other part of a duck to call it.

how about floydingness? pacman floyding mayweather?

floyd is in europe (is he still there) arranging a fight with matty hatty in january. hes not floyding anyone, he just wants them to wait including pacquiao. he will fight them all in his own time. when he feels he can have it easy with them. mark my word.