Alex Ariza filed lawsuit Friday to sue Freddie Roach for defamation

[mrpizza-nd_beer]

Filing a day before fight. Ariza, the usual attention whore.

[Kris Silver]

lol Groves almost cost me the last time. I'll go with 1m points on Froch this time.

Cool. If only it were real money.

I think Freddie's waited long enough to consider Rios's positive as enough to expose his concerns. He's basically saying part of the reason I got rid of him was I couldn't trust the guys shakes.

[juandabomb]

in a way roach cleared up the fact that ariza was helping manny with "da juice" because he hasnt knocked out anyone in a while hahahaha

[QballLobo]

Some on here don't realize what slander is in a legal sense. I come from a family a lawyers.
Ariza absolutely has a case here. Not a very strong one but one strong enough to force a likely settlement.
Roach said things that could impact Ariza's future ability to gain employment. There is the potential for monetary losses.
Roach should have known better after Pacquio sued the Mayweathers for pretty much the same thing.
Where there is smoke there is fire but as of now there is no evidence that Ariza gives his guys anything illegal and certainly no evidence he did so with Pacquiao.
Some other fighter in need of a strength and conditioning coach may see those comments and decide not to hire Ariza. Roach got caught up in the moment and should have guarded his words more carefully.
I can almost guarantee you we see a settlement to this in the next 6-9 months.

[jqSide]

I really don't know how much help these conditioning coaches are to the fighters. Maidana was gasping for breath as early as the fifth round in his fight with Broner.

Pacquiao didn't even bother hiring a conditioning trainer last year. He simply went back to his roots and did it on his own. Buboy fed Pacquiao his favorite Filipino dishes. And Pacquiao was in perfect physical condition in the Rios fight.

[ManUtd626]

If Ariza really did have Pac on gear at some point, surely it's not in Roach's interest to ever put accusations of this nature out there. Ariza's reputation being damaged is ultimately damaging to Pacquiao's reputation purely by association. And the likelihood of Ariza admitting that he gave Pac dodgy stuff (if in fact he did) is way higher if Ariza is already outed as a PED peddler, as he would have much less to lose.

For one thing it makes you think that if Ariza was giving Manny stuff then Freddie didn't know much about it.

This. It seems Freddy is willing to cut his nose off to spite his face. His hatred for Ariza is clouding his logic. I don't understand why the interviewer didn't ask him if what he said was indeed true about Ariza did he think Manny's fights under Ariza as strength and conditioning coach are equally "shady"? I don't know if Ariza has grounds for a lawsuit, but Freddy is kind of throwing Manny under the bus in order to spite a guy he hates.

[hectari]

No. Roach already talked about it in this video and said he paid him money to settle the claim. Ariza has a case here.

So why do the Floyd fanboys keep repeating that Justin Fortune is a PED user? He sued Roach for defamation for accusing him of being on steroids and Roach had to pay up by settlement money.

Roach seems to talk out of his ass a lot, what happened to this man?

[Butler]

what was the reason roach fired ariza? what was the cause of their falling out?

[JaguaresMx]

wait...doesn't this damage Pac's reputation?

how does accusing Ariza of being dirty somehow not get back to Pac?

[hectari]

What a b1tch Ariza is. Rios tests positive and the Garcia camp still have ariza around - shows how shady Garcia camp is.

The reason Ariza is suing is because he is no longer making that Manny Pacquiao conditioning coach money and he has a filipino wife who is high maintenance. Ariza used to get bank as Pacs conditioning coach, remember on 24/7 he was flossing in a luxury Maserati? Pac even bought Ariza matching Rolex gold watch. Ariza used to be super close with Manny this guy was practically Pacs good friend at one point.

Pacquiao is one of the most generous guys when it come to money and tips, he gives money away and over pays employees.