Freddie Roach: "Pacquiao has to SKIP MEALS to make 140 lbs"

[RockStar45]

If he did what most top level boxers do I think he could make 135 still.

Now he doesn't have to make weight at all for WW and has to only skip a couple meals for 140.

He could make 135 easy. If for some reason Juan Manuel Lopez became the biggest money maker in the sport and demanded to face Pacquiao at a catchweight of 135, he could make that. He would have to cut down to probably 3 small meals a day and dehydrate the week of the fight (like most boxers do), but he could do it.

Pac walks around at about 150, maybe 155 at his heaviest. When he trains to get down to 147, he basically eats what he wants for 8 weeks and then cuts out the protein shakes in his final week of camp. If he wanted to get to 140, he'd have to cut down on the size of his meals and skip the protein shakes for the full camp. That's what Roach meant.

Of course, the keyboard gym **** here would have you believe that Pacquiao actually walks around at 126 and fills up on steroids for 8 full weeks to get to 147.

[Rick Grimes]

Pacquiao fight night weight is only a few lbs heavier than when he was at 130, so his diet surely isn't much different he just doesn't have to drain himself before the weigh in.

[RockStar45]

This is what happens when you talk too much. Manny having to skip meals to make 140 is complete and utter bull****. Why would he have to stuff his face with 8,000 calories to make WW then?

You see Tony, I'm about to school you in the art of not being a fat guy who sits at his computer all day.

Pacquiao eats 7,000 calories during training camp to MAINTAIN his weight. Athletes who work out 4 hours a day, 5-6 days a week are burning a ton of calories, possibly up to 8,000 a day.

Every BOXER who cuts weight to fight at a certain division skips meals in order to make the contracted weight. They're burning more calories than they consume in order to lose the weight. They also have to dehydrate in order to lose the water-weight before the weigh-in.

Pacquiao doesn't have to cut weight anymore, so he has the luxury of being able to eat whatever he wants in order to maintain his fighting weight.

If there was a super-lucrative fight at 140, all he would have to do is cut out some meals and he'd make 140 easy. It's really not that hard, and it's far less extreme than what some boxers do.

For what it's worth, Floyd fans, Mayweather does the same thing. That's why you see him doing seemingly outlandish crap on 24/7 like eating candy and going to fast food restaurants. If he was just sitting on his ass like you, that would be absurd. But he doesn't have to watch his diet because he's a fighting machine who trains every day and fights at his walking around weight, so he has the luxury of being able to eat whatever he wants.

[sceneboxing]

You see Tony, I'm about to school you in the art of not being a fat guy who sits at his computer all day.

Pacquiao eats 7,000 calories during training camp to MAINTAIN his weight. Athletes who work out 4 hours a day, 5-6 days a week are burning a ton of calories, possibly up to 8,000 a day.

Every BOXER who cuts weight to fight at a certain division skips meals in order to make the contracted weight. They're burning more calories than they consume in order to lose the weight. They also have to dehydrate in order to lose the water-weight before the weigh-in.

Pacquiao doesn't have to cut weight anymore, so he has the luxury of being able to eat whatever he wants in order to maintain his fighting weight.

If there was a super-lucrative fight at 140, all he would have to do is cut out some meals and he'd make 140 easy. It's really not that hard, and it's far less extreme than what some boxers do.

For what it's worth, Floyd fans, Mayweather does the same thing. That's why you see him doing seemingly outlandish crap on 24/7 like eating candy and going to fast food restaurants. If he was just sitting on his ass like you, that would be absurd. But he doesn't have to watch his diet because he's a fighting machine who trains every day and fights at his walking around weight, so he has the luxury of being able to eat whatever he wants.

Don't bother. Most people here won't understand.

Green k for your effort though.

[NesNY]

Don't bother. Most people here won't understand.

Green k for your effort though.

you could have studied Nutrition (like I did) and these experts here would know more than you.

They're in their teens or really early 20s, so of course they know more than older people who have DONE **** and have experience. They have wiki and google, after all.

"cutting meals" is an ambiguous statement. To athletes and bodybuilders, a protein shake with a banana and some tuna is a "meal."

Some weight gain supplements easily have 50+ grams of protein, and 600 calories per serving. 50 grams is what is recommended for most average people per day! 600 Calories is like having a footlong deli sub (turkey, pastrami, provolone, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, etc....).

It's absolutely no surprise that Manny would have to cut down intake to make 140....he's eating 8000 cals to maintain a 145 3/4lb weigh-in (Clottey fight). That's ridiculous!

But no....NSB posters know more. It's getting harder and harder to wanna post on these boards every day.

[AFTER HOURS]

[NesNY]

so much for "Pacquiao weighed in at welterweight as a FW"

[el malo]

You see Tony, I'm about to school you in the art of not being a fat guy who sits at his computer all day.

Pacquiao eats 7,000 calories during training camp to MAINTAIN his weight. Athletes who work out 4 hours a day, 5-6 days a week are burning a ton of calories, possibly up to 8,000 a day.

Every BOXER who cuts weight to fight at a certain division skips meals in order to make the contracted weight. They're burning more calories than they consume in order to lose the weight. They also have to dehydrate in order to lose the water-weight before the weigh-in.

Pacquiao doesn't have to cut weight anymore, so he has the luxury of being able to eat whatever he wants in order to maintain his fighting weight.

If there was a super-lucrative fight at 140, all he would have to do is cut out some meals and he'd make 140 easy. It's really not that hard, and it's far less extreme than what some boxers do.

For what it's worth, Floyd fans, Mayweather does the same thing. That's why you see him doing seemingly outlandish crap on 24/7 like eating candy and going to fast food restaurants. If he was just sitting on his ass like you, that would be absurd. But he doesn't have to watch his diet because he's a fighting machine who trains every day and fights at his walking around weight, so he has the luxury of being able to eat whatever he wants.

this is why pac and floyd always will have the advantage over all fighters, they are fighting at a weight were they dont have to loose much weight at all. then they force guys to come in at catchweights

[pasawayako]

if pac will just eat 3 times a day he could easily made 140 lbs while floyd even will not eat for a whole day still he couldn't make a 144 lbs as evidence in the marquez fight.

[War Dinamita]

So people can stop the bull**** about Manny being a LW with shakes beating WW's.