Larry Merchant on Pacquiao "If Roach Says He's Clean, He's Clean"

[BoxingGenius27]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxin...merchant_N.htm

This interview was taken over a year ago. He says it in the last answer in the interview.

Larry has never been the type to pull punches or bite his tongue. I've heard Merchant critisize many fighters and give his honest, borderline rude assessment of fighters.

So given Merchant's wisdom, it puzzles me when I hear this statement. Especially after hearing Roach's take on his "don't ask don't tell policy" regarding a few of his fighters that have used in the past.

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Larry's been also known to hate Mayweather Jr's guts.

He's been praying for Floyd to lose.

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[k1llu]

This’s the problem I’ve always had with Larry Merchant he’s extremely biased towards fighters he likes. If the situation were to switch and Floyd were under Roach he would never say those words.

[JoeDaWg]

Larry is the best. Totally agree with everything he said.

[sugersean69]

lary is rasist he rasist to blacks. piriod

[Left Hook Tua]

larry merchant is the OG *******.

[Mr. Fantastic]

Merchant must of forgotten Roach worked with Toney and even KNEW he was taking it. There is a video out there about it too.

Personally I believe Pac isn't on something but Roach has no credibility to me when he talks about steroids.

[Left Hook Tua]

Merchant must of forgotten Roach worked with Toney and even KNEW he was taking it. There is a video out there about it too.

Personally I believe Pac isn't on something but Roach has no credibility to me when he talks about steroids.

larry loves pac.

he always did. since the ledwaba fight.

larry put pac on this top 10 p4p list after the ledwaba fight. 2 years before pac even beat barrera.

[-Kev-]

It's sad that Larry Merchant hates the defensive/counterpunching/Philly shell style. He hates Floyd and Hopkins real bad. Not even the style either, cause he also hated on Roy Jones big time, and look at Jones' style. He hates Berto. I hate to say this, but the fighter he hates are all black, but he doesn't hate all black fighters. I have seen him praise Mosley and Tavoris Cloud.