Comments Thread For: Roach: Chavez Trained 5 Days, Almost KO'd Martinez!

[Ravens Fan]

I believe all that eating cheerios in his underwear was reality TV bull5hit. Roach just needed an excuse when he finally came to the realization that Junior was, and still is, a highly overrated turd.

[ShoulderRoll]

hahahaha @ he ate cheerios is his underwear on at home more then he was in the gym.

To me that will always be the enduring image of Chavez Jr.

[Njord777]

See, when I see pre Steward Klitschko, and then the steady, persistent way he fights off his jab even now; I can directly tell a legendary trainer was at work.

No knock on Roach but he has a habit of taking fighters that are basically done learning (now that his star rose so high with Pacquiao) and attempting to refine them slightly while taking major credit.

I like Freddie well enough but what I'm hearing from this quote of his is, as Julio Ceasar Chavez Jr.'s trainer he allowed the guy to muck about with his entourage for the duration of the training camp, and then took his guy into the fight after 5 days of training.

Add to that their split was totally from Chavez's side from what I heard, and I sometimes take the intangibles that people saying adding Roach to your corner will do with a heavy dose of salt....

[Hougigo]

To me that will always be the enduring image of Chavez Jr.

HBO is commmitted to showing d!cks on their network

[CatchAndShoot]

Not siding with JCC jr, but Freddie needs to learn how to control that temper.

He seems like the type of guy that will snitch on you by accident, because someone provoked him into saying something, and tested his ego or something.

[Czarczar]

I will say it again Chavez Jr ruined Martinez. He destroyed his body.

[Cinci Champ]

There is some truth here. I believe Roach is Cotto's biggest asset in this fight. Roach nailed it when he said he's got Cotto's full attention week after week where he got jack ***** from Chavez Jr.
I think Roach's experience with southpaws and having already fought Martinez is the best thing Cotto has in his preparation for this fight.

see i like roach but the one thing i dont like is the way he positions himself to where now of cotto wins everyones gonna assume its because of freddie and i dont like that i think its selfish in a way. He says certain things and puts himself right in the middle in a way to where when his fighters win he can take a ton of credit away from the fighter. I dont know if its intentional but it is what it is.

[lutenco]

If it's true that CHAVEZ Jr. trained only so few days,honestly i change idea of CHAVEZ Jr. and the guy is a monster of toughness!!!

[bigjavi973]

For all those who THINKS that martinez is the better fighter. He has been dropped in his past four fights. Got a gift decision in his last fight vs murray. He beat an old pavlik who has only jermaine taylor has his notable win. An old taylor as a matter of fact who arthur abraham did better than pavlik. Chavez jr. didn't throw any punches until the last round, because he is the type of fighter who needs to set his feet to throw those big shots, so since he was down on the scorecard he just started swinging punches and dropped martinez. Matthew macklin is a nobody, darren barker is a nobody, Serhiy Dzinziruk is a nobody, Paul Williams was a good fighter but he did lose to carlos quintana, and they would have fought a 3rd time but williams got into that accident. Erislandy Lara got robbed in that Pwilliams fight. He couldn't even beat kermit cintron convincingly, and as a puertorican I can tell you cintron is ass. Other than those fighters, he has fought plenty of bums in spain and argentina to pad up that record. Oh, and when he fought for the 1st time in nevada, he got ko'd by margacheatoh and then went back to spain to fight more bums. Now, styles makes fights. I see some people here saying that cotto gets hit alot. yes he did, thats because whenever he used to throw punches he would switch up his stance and that was when he was vounorable(spellcheck). Cotto understands that now that roach pointed that out to him, (the main reason pacquiao was even able to tag him so many times). Stylistically wise, He is back to the old cotto, dig that hook to the liver, something that he has gotten away from in recent years due to his different trainers. Mayweather knows this, (dont get mad mayweather fanboys, im just using him as an example). When cotto was 31-0 and just beat mosley, he was a body hooking machine. Then, a month later after the ricky hatton fight, mayweather retired saying that he has nothing left to prove, meanwhile cotto and him was in the same weight division. He only unretired after cotto lost to margarito, changed trainers, changed his STYLE of fighting, giving up the left hook to the body for a jab and being more defensive.

WAR COTTO!!!! PUNETA!!!!

[Jocknerd94]

First off almost doesn't mean anything. Your fighter got whooped for 11 rounds and then woke up last minute only to still lose a lopsided decision.

Secondly Chavez almost won because he was almost a Cruiserweight. Cotto is moving up and won't have any weight advantage.

The fight is 50/50 but I don't expect any kind of Chavez power advantage.