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

[j.one]

um....so first he had to eat 6 meals a day just to make 147 now he cant make 140???so whats the point of the 150 catchweight????this makes 0 sense

Nothing with Manny is logical at all and then people wonder why he's called into question. Roach & Arum make him look worse than anybody solely by talking to godamn much. One min he's to little now, they act like he gotta starve himself to make 140 yet insists on fighting at absurd weights. They should just be quiet.

[goldenglove2]

You are a *****!!! Manny was never the bigger man, he is a midgett!

BOY is just scared!!

SMH..

Do you ever talk about anyone but Floyd?

This is a Pac thread.

[rj_ct]

The speed difference between lightweights and welterweights is insane. Cotto is by no means a slow WW and was made to look like a sloth. Clottey also has some of the fastest hands in the division and looked like a turtle against Pacquiao. If you ask me Pacquiao is quite a bit slower at welterweight, but he is still so much faster than natural welterweights that he looks to be just as fast to many.

I dare anyone to say Pacquiao now is as fast as the one who fought Marquez, Morales, and Barerra, he just isn't.

Also the fact that he is growing into the weight will be his downfall now.

I don't think Cotto looked like a sloth. He was matching Pacquiao until he got hurt and dropped. Then he went into his defensive/survival mode.

Clottey can put his punches together well, but you have to actually... uh... throw punches to do that. His footwork is slow and plodding though.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

You are a *****!!! Manny was never the bigger man, he is a midgett!

BOY is just scared!!

Man I just bust out laughing!!!!! I scared my daughter...lol.

[Khalid X]

The only reason Freddie said this is to stop all the guys like Marquez and Bradley calling them out for fights under 147. Manny is not a WW but that is were the money is at and where he will continue to fight. You may not like it from a fans perspective but even a Mosley fight down the road will bring Manny more money than fights with Alexander, Bradley and even Marquez. These are the facts and something people will have to learn to deal with, because boxing is a business.


BTW b4 Floyd fans cry and bring up people flaming Floyd for Baldomir over Margarito...I for one have never knocked Floyd for that move and others as they made the most sense from a business perspective.

[pistol whip]

um....so first he had to eat 6 meals a day just to make 147 now he cant make 140???so whats the point of the 150 catchweight????this makes 0 sense

Did roach say he couldn't make 140? No! He just said he can't eat as much the end.


You act like everyother boxer in the world doesnt cut out thousands of calories from their normal diet to make weight.

[Khalid X]

Nothing with Manny is logical at all and then people wonder why he's called into question. Roach & Arum make him look worse than anybody solely by talking to godamn much. One min he's to little now, they act like he gotta starve himself to make 140 yet insists on fighting at absurd weights. They should just be quiet.

They just don't want to be bother by the Marquez call outs or by other JWW wanting fights at that weight. This is short (Freddie saying that) for "either you gonna come up to 147 to face us or there is no fight".

[infamous larryx]

freddy talks to much..he always contradicts himself...

[infamous larryx]

Did roach say he couldn't make 140? No! He just said he can't eat as much the end.


You act like everyother boxer in the world doesnt cut out thousands of calories from their normal diet to make weight.

if you have to skip meals to make 140..then your a natural 147 pound fighter..but how do you have to skip meals to make 140 and have to eat 6 times to make 147??thats makes no sense...

[rj_ct]

They just don't want to be bother by the Marquez call outs or by other JWW wanting fights at that weight. This is short (Freddie saying that) for "either you gonna come up to 147 to face us or there is no fight".

Bradley called him out at 147. Just sayin...