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  • #41
    Originally posted by Stewie Cruise View Post
    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.
    .......thanks for posting this!!!.....you did the board a real justice my man!!!

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    • #42
      Originally posted by Stewie Cruise View Post
      Most of the people close to the big guys in boxing have already said this fight need to happen in May or september 2010 for the fight to be signed, promoted and get the full benefit of the globe.

      How is a fight like this one going to happen in March??? Manny fought a little over two weeks ago, He still need his body to heal before starting another training camp that would take 2 months.. No way this fight happens in March, Not May either because of manny's commitments so september is the only month where this fight can gather its full potential.
      I hear you and I have the patience to wait it out. But I don't have patience with guys who keep murmuring about how Floyd doesn't want the fight. THEY BOTH WANT THE FIGHT, ITS EVIDENT. No matter how many times its on again and off again, it will happen. I'm not worried one bit.

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      • #43
        Originally posted by Stewie Cruise View Post
        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@ we need a tune up in Yuri Foreman
        Last edited by Cash Cow; 12-01-2009, 03:11 PM.

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        • #44
          Originally posted by Calilloyd View Post
          Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, isn't interested in any interim fights before facing Mayweather.

          " I want Mayweather, next," he told Max-TV on Tuesday morning at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California." Why go after someone else? I want to go for the whole thing, the big ones. The thing is, you talk about March, but that fight can't be made by March because we need more time, of course, to be 100-percent healthy. I'll have a ten week training camp, new sparring partners, just a whole different ballgame. We know how to get in shape and we'll be in great shape and all that stuff but the game plan will be completely different. There's a lot of changes we have to make. But I have a guy who's very capable of making those changes."



          Take those "licks" too.


          OWNED!!!

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          • #45
            Originally posted by DoubleM View Post
            Clear what **** Rach is planning.

            He wants Pacquiao to make "history" by fighting the worst 154 title holder ever. Than he wants to face Mayweather in his last fight so people say when he loses "At least he made history" and completely ignore his ass beating.
            I AGREE!!!...lol..its obvious

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            • #46
              Originally posted by COACH WEBB View Post
              I hear you and I have the patience to wait it out. But I don't have patience with guys who keep murmuring about how Floyd doesn't want the fight. THEY BOTH WANT THE FIGHT, ITS EVIDENT. No matter how many times its on again and off again, it will happen. I'm not worried one bit.

              I have NO doubt in my mind that both fighters want the fight, And i have NO doubt that the fight would happen but its just annoying when you see people with a one-sided view, We dont need trolling or threads about how Mayweather is ducking the fight when its nothing like that.

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              • #47
                Originally posted by Stewie Cruise View Post
                Most of the people close to the big guys in boxing have already said this fight need to happen in May or september 2010 for the fight to be signed, promoted and get the full benefit of the globe.

                How is a fight like this one going to happen in March??? Manny fought a little over two weeks ago, He still need his body to heal before starting another training camp that would take 2 months.. No way this fight happens in March, Not May either because of manny's commitments so september is the only month where this fight can gather its full potential.
                Only problem is if Yuri knocks The Pacman out, we'll miss out on the biggest selling fight in history.

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                • #48
                  Originally posted by Stewie Cruise View Post

                  I have NO doubt in my mind that both fighters want the fight, And i have NO doubt that the fight would happen but its just annoying when you see people with a one-sided view, We dont need trolling or threads about how Mayweather is ducking the fight when its nothing like that.
                  I mean its that cut and dry mate.

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                  • #49
                    Originally posted by COACH WEBB View Post
                    more ether

                    Roach didn't want March..now he is making it as if Floyd doesn't want March. Even with all the election in May non sense, Roach wants to fight YORI FORMAN in March and the fight May all the way in September. Its not rocket science. Roach is trying to spill it to make it as if Floyd doesn't really want to fight in March. But his qoutes clearly show otherwise.
                    **** it....

                    i say do the fight in march, and if team pacman will use that as an excuse when they lose, they can put a rematch clause in the contract, and we can get may-manny II in september.

                    there need not be ANY interim fights for either side. this is the **** people want, it was being anticipated BEFORE manny beheaded cotto, and i heard roach himself say on jim rome's show, "after they take care of cotto, mayweather is the only fight out there for them."

                    make the **** happen.

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                    • #50
                      Originally posted by Stewie Cruise View Post

                      I have NO doubt in my mind that both fighters want the fight, And i have NO doubt that the fight would happen but its just annoying when you see people with a one-sided view, We dont need trolling or threads about how Mayweather is ducking the fight when its nothing like that.
                      Roach has no game plan for Mayweather

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