Frddie Roach - The boxer...How good was he?

[puga]

Roach as a fighter = Floyd sr as a trainer

[Dagomba]

Roach as a fighter = Floyd sr as a trainer

[mastertech1985]

A club fighter, Friday night fights type


He was a C class fighter, and IMO he is a great trainer, but he gets a lot of attention because of his Parkinson's battle......I don't get how he won trainer of the year so many times and Nacho Beristein built champions and hall of famers and idk if he ever won one award

[Barcham]

I never once saw him fight and do not remember having heard of him before he started training Pacquaio. And I have watched boxing for most of my 57 years. So I cannot imagine him being anything special at all in the ring.

[thecomedian2]

I watched many of Roach's fights live on tv. Always an entertaining guy but based on the way he fought no one should be surprised that he has parkinsons.

God Damn, was that on color TV or Black and White?

[champion4ever]

Freddie was a face first brawler who liked to eat punches, with a huge heart, granite chin but with very little punching power





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[100percentTruth]

Never seen him box and I would bet alot of money neither has 95% of this forum. These questions about yesteryears boxers always crack me up. I would bet my bottom dollar these 20 somethings that post here don't know the answers to these questions. Maybe a small group of posters 35+ do. Me being 30 years old, I've followed boxing since the early 90's so how can I tell you about Freddie Roach? Am I supposed to watch your video and now have the answers?

You must not believe in history books either. How do you think people learn about past fighters? You think Mike Tyson was there to watch Sugar Ray Robinson or Jack Dempsey? You dumb muthafka.

[LADIV]

Fcuk freddy he ****** i saw some fight highlights of him on youtube he was a c level fighter and a c level trainer ,people give him too much credit for training fighters that are carefully matched
With low risk opponents

[The Problem Child]

The highlights speak for themselves. He was a World Class warrior, period. Prime for prime, Roach knocks Judah the **** out. Judah lacks heart, determination... Roach had and still has both. If Roach would have kept healthy, he would have been top 10-15 of all time. There is a reason why he made Pacquiao into the greatest fighter of all time.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

A proper bum.

He's also the most overrated trainer in history.