Comments Thread For: Roach: Mosley The Best Choice, Floyd Jr. Playing Games

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Trainer Freddie Roach, who supports Top Rank promoter Bob Arum’s contention that Shane Mosley is the best fight available for pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao.....

Two-faced Team Pacquiao strikes again.....

First, when questioned about the catch-weight for Margarito, Ariza and Roach both justified it by claiming that Manny is a natural JWW, and that he can eat "anything on the table" when training because "Manny has to gain weight to make his target weight"....
http://www.pacquiao-margarito.com/en...-inner-circle/
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleid=621958
http://www.pacquiaovsmargarito.net/w...ight-pacquiao/

Then, when the proposition of Marquez was raised, Bob Arum claimed that Manny is a genuine WW, and would have to fight Marquez at 147 because he cannot make it under 143 without "starving himself".....
http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=33333

But I see that now the conversation has switched to Mosley, Bob Arum has changed his mind again, and decided that Manny is "much smaller than a normal welterweight"

Those cvnts were trying to set up my boy Marquez, so nobody can complain about me sticking up for him.

[don miguel]

Mosley must be the luckiest guy in boxing .. to get dominated by Floyd earlier this year and still wind up fighting another top fighter a year later ... WOW. Shows how much Boxing has fallen off when a 39 year old can be recycled as a challenger 2 consecutive years vs a top Pound for Pound fighter.



oh im sure Pac-Mosley makes plenty of business sense and will sell .. but just how much? Especially considering Mosley getting wiped out this year in a big fight vs Floyd
from time to time boxing fans chirp up about how they get screwed over with the PPVS. Fans have to realize a Mosley-Pacquiao bout selling well only encourages Promoters to continue with making mismatches

**Look at how well Margarito-Pacquiao sold and think about it .. if Bob Arum can get a million buys on PPV with a fight like that (interesting size differential between fighters but many saw it as a mismatch)

than what stops him from doing it in the future?

Maybe more than Marg-Pac and less than SSM-Floyd.

It's sad but true. But don't blame Pac or Floyd or other fighters for doing this. This system existed before they came along. That's what Oscar did and the other p4p and PPV kings did before them and I'm sure that's what will Martinez, Berto or Lopez will do if they become the p4p or PPV champs

[wecreep]

Maybe more than Marg-Pac and less than SSM-Floyd.

It's sad but true. But don't blame Pac or Floyd or other fighters for doing this. This system existed before they came along. That's what Oscar did and the other p4p and PPV kings did before them and I'm sure that's what will Martinez, Berto or Lopez will do if they become the p4p or PPV champs

i understand where your coming from, but what about fighters finding a nice balance between the biz and the actual challenges? I think cotto exhibited this back in his prime.

[hitking]

i understand where your coming from, but what about fighters finding a nice balance between the biz and the actual challenges? I think cotto exhibited this back in his prime.

Don't put former PPV Kings like Mayweather or even de la Hoya in the same breath as Pac. The reason their events sold were because they fought top fighters considered on the upside of their careers. The reason Pac sells is because he's the new hope for the Please Kick Floyd Mayweather's Ass fan club. Mayweather fought Mosley when he was P4P #2. He fought JMM when he was P4P #2. He fought Hatton when he was top 5 on everyone's P4P list. He fought de la Hoya when he was arguably the top guy at 154.He fought Baldomir when he was the recognized welterweight champ. And people only started criticizing those opponents after he fought them and made easy work of them. Pac doesn't do that. He fights guys entering the ring with quetsion marks. Margarito coming off a KO loss to Mosley. Clottey coming off a loss to Cotto, who Pac had just KO'd. To an extent Cotto coming off a lackluster performance against Clottey. To an extent Hatton who yes, was coming off a good performance against Malignaggi. But, he was nearly KO'd by Lazcano and Malignaggi had nothing in the way of testing Hatton's ability to take a punch. All three fights with Morales he was coming off loses. Pac has basically made a career of fighting guys coming off loses or lackluster performances against lesser fighters and true fans (not the ones who are more Mayweather hater than Pac fan or those who just started following boxing in the last couple years) who have been following this act for a long time now are tired of it.

[nathan31]

pacquiao has been hurt twice now against cotto internal head damage(look at the bandage his ears was blow inside then now against margarito i say a 3rd time is not good for pacquiao hes been getting hit hard by big strong guys.he has even said it that he has been hurt in the ring by cotto and margarito he just pretends hes ok so the opponet whont take advantage of him.

[super villa1n]

yeah floyd is playing games. at 1st i thought he was hyping it up by beating up his baby mama and kids but i realized he'll do anything to get locked up to stay away from manny.

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For those of you keeping score. Mayweather is blasted for ebating a washed up bum named de la Hoya. A year and a half and a ****ty performance against 2 Pound, he's a great win for Pac. Mayweather beats a bum named Hatton/ A year and a half and a near KO loss to Juan Lazcano later, Hatton's a beast when Pac fights him. In Jan of 2009, Mosley destroys Margarito. 16 months later Mayweather is criticized for fighting the winner of that fight, while Pac is praised for fighting loser 6 months later. And now, Pac will be fighting the same Mosley Mayweather was criticized for fighting, but only a year and a pitiful draw with Sergio Mora later. And once again, the Pacwh*re nation will proclaim him the greatest. Wow, what an ass backwards world we live.

Pac-fan's, read this post.....

And on top of that.....
Manny will not fight the 37yo midget Marquez, unless the match is held at 147, which is higher than when Manny won his welterweight title

[Check_hooks]

so beating up your girlfriend and threating to kill her in front of your kids and stealing her cell phone is a "game." If so than I dont wanna play cuz it'll only lead to doing a shawshank redemption lmao.

[Pacquiao'd]

if Floyd wasn't being a little scared ***** we'd finally see a fight.

more like if pac wasnt too much of a b*tch to take the tests, we would have had the fight back in march.

so look to your hero which is who prevented the fight

[flint]

mayweather is done. he has moved on.they are using his name to down size mosley or any others finances on a pacquiao fight. manny goahead and keep fighting mayweather's left overs.in this case atleast you get the not fighting an african american tag off your bac and resume. sugar shane oldsley.