Roach on Floyd: "Very difficult fight...his style does give us trouble."

[p4p-champ]

I have to admit, I've gained a little respect for Roach on those comments. He is straight up telling it like it is, no bullshit or propaganda.

[Pretty Boy32]

Seems like Freddie Roach has accepted Manny can't beat Floyd.

[Bee Keepz]

If it is possible that Bob Arum does not want to make the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight happen:
"Possibly yeah. The thing is everywhere I travel in the world everyone tells me to make that fight happen and so forth. I talked to Manny's advisors last week and they told me they are negotiating so it's definitely a possibility and I hope that fight happens."

Whether or not he thinks Pacquiao won the fight against Marquez:
"I thought he won by a little bit but the thing is before the decision was announced I didn't know which way it was gonna go though because it was a close fight. It coulda went either way, and if it went the other way I couldn't complain that's for sure. After watching the fight on TV I did have Manny winning by a little bit. First time in ten years Manny had a bad night and just came at the wrong time. It may be good because maybe Mayweather is licking his chops at this point."

Whether or not he would accept a fourth fight against Marquez:
"If that makes the most sense then yeah but Mayweather is the fight I want. I think he is the biggest challenge out there and I like challenges. I think that's the defining fight of Manny's career."

If he thinks Pacquiao's last fight will be against Mayweather:
"I think so. The thing is if Pacquiao does lose that fight – well win or lose I think he will retire. I think that's gonna be his last fight. He's really into politics and so forth and politics is going to take him away from boxing that's for sure. Politics is something he wants to be good at. It's not like the singing or dancing and acting, that's more for fun. This is serious business and something he wants to be good at. It's gonna take 100 percent of his time to be good at that. I feel if we do fight Mayweather, win or lose I think it will be his last fight."

How tough he thinks the Mayweather fight would be if it happens:
"Very difficult fight. He is a good counter-puncher and his style does give us trouble. He does have some Marquez similarities but he's actually a lot faster than Marquez so he does pose a bigger problem. Manny, in his last fight, he kinda fell back into the realm when he fought this guy the first two times. He didn't use the improvements he's been working on to beat these bigger and better guys. He kinda went right back to what he did in the first two fights. That wasn't enough and that wasn't really effective. I think Mayweather will bring out the best in Manny. It's gonna have to because if not we're not gonna be there in the end."


http://deadspin.com/5866464/manny-pa...yweather-fight

Which is funny because Mayweather is scared to fight Pacquiao.

That boy is on steroids - TSA his ass.

[Fistic]

Which is funny because Mayweather is scared to fight Pacquiao.

That boy is on steroids - TSA his ass.

Since the Marquez fight I have lost a little interest in Pac v. May. I thought Marquez won, and came to a solid conclusion that Mayweaher would make his look bleh. I would still like to see the fight, but would not be suprised if it doesn't get made just yet. It might make better business sense to postpone it for a whle longer, and have Pacquiao fight some other guys in the TR stable.

I'm sure Roach if confident that Pac can pull out a victory, but they have work to do. I appreciate is sincerity.

[Jedi Vader]

Hey, at least Roach is keepin it real. Can't knock him for sayin how he feels, even if it's his own fighter. But at the same time, I would hope Floyd wouldn't take Pacquiao for granted based on just the last JMM fight. IMO that still would be a big mistake on his part.

When have you ever seen Floyd even partially do that??

[jcpryor]

Roach is a *****

[Twako]

roach keeping it real, everyone w/ a good boxing sense including *******s know floyd is a difficult fight. but they still want the fight.

what's funny is, floyd and his team are soooooo sure pac's an easy fight but it took them 2years, 2 vacations and manny not looking good against jmm, to come around and want to fight. lol just lol

[Bee Keepz]

roach keeping it real, everyone w/ a good boxing sense including *******s know floyd is a difficult fight. but they still want the fight.

what's funny is, floyd and his team are soooooo sure pac's an easy fight but it took them 2years, 2 vacations and manny not looking good against jmm, to come around and want to fight. lol just lol

Since Pacquiao didn't look good against JMM, that's a "W" on Mayweather's record right there.

Jnr.--"Cotto beat Shane, Margarito beat Cotto, Shane beat Margarito, but no one has beaten me."

LMAO

[puga]

roach has said this lots of times people....dont get all excited, we all know pac is a sucker for right straight and floyd has that as his best punch but it would take hell of a lot more than just that...floyd has a poor workrate and get's hit hell a lot more vs southpaws....both will have a hardtime with eachother..

if only floyd had balls, we would've seen this fight already..

[[SyrianUser]]

roach has said this lots of times people....dont get all excited, we all know pac is a sucker for right straight and floyd has that as his best punch but it would take hell of a lot more than just that...floyd has a poor workrate and get's hit hell a lot more vs southpaws....both will have a hardtime with eachother..

if only floyd had balls, we would've seen this fight already..

No , Mayweather beats him easily