Comments Thread For: Roach Says Pacquiao 'Salt Water' Healing Was a Joke

[SterlingStained]

i would believe roach if pacquiao was an atheist.

but he's a dangerous religious freak who put people's well being at risk by saying condoms should be banned.

so this excuse is only valid if pacquiao is an atheist or turns to atheism. If he does give up on adult fantasies written in the bronze and iron age by uneducated goat herders (aka religion) i will start defending him again.

until then....

this "it was just **** jokes" excuse doesnt fly or cut it with me.

you e injured me manny.

and your e life will pay.

[LouIE G]

yeah, and fraud jr always tells the truth... never contradicts himself!

I dont give a *** about Floyd, *** Floyd.

[MrRolltide91]

These guys can never be on the same page. They don't know whether manny injured his shoulder in what round, before oscar, before the training , they can't fill out waivers properly but want shots before a fight now this:

Bob: manny needs to go to rehab it's unprofessional
Manny: don't worry Bob saltwater and God is the way
Freddie: it's a joke he's in rehab everyday

yep.........

[Mr. Philadel]

Pac's trainer is the biggest joke....nobody is laughing with Pac right now...dudes are laughing at him....he's become the butt of so many jokes that it's a shame...such a great fighter has been reduced to shoulder jokes...smh

[AllEyesOpen]

Team Pacquiao in damage control mode.

[aboutfkntime]

Too many thick people in this forum. They need to have 1+1 explained to them for them to understand anything.

When he said salt water he meant swimming in salt water, in the ocean. He didn't mean rubbing salt water on it. It's the swimming in the ocean that's helping his rehab.

Now move on, it's starting to get nauseating reading the childish crap in this forum.

That could be right, maybe he was referring to the swimming aspect.

But salt-water healing is a known therapy.....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...er-oceans.html

It did sound like Pac was saying that the salt helped him heal faster.

[Basco]

This story has more twists than Deals Gap! They continue to dig a deeper hole, sad!

[Bronx2245]

This isn't the first time I have posted this, but I repeat: Manny has the worse PR team ever! "He's scared of needles," "We need an outdoor stadium," "We signed the contracts," "He suffered a torn rotator," "Manny is being unprofessional, he won't see the doctor," "I healed without a doctor, no rehab, only swimming in salt water," and now "He was just joking, he has a sense of humor." How about something simple like " I lost, Floyd was the better man tonight, and I would like a rematch."

[Bronx2245]

August 24, 2015

When Floyd Mayweather won a unanimous decision over Manny Pacquiao earlier this year, many Mayweather haters and Pacquiao fans cried over the decision and tried to convince anyone who would listen that Pacquiao really won the fight, which is flat out wrong. They reasoned that Floyd ran and Manny was the aggressor. This actually borders on being insane. Mayweather didn't run, he used his feet and boxed Pacquiao as it was stated in this space he would numerous times since 2009. He took advantage of Pacquiao's ineptness at cutting off the ring and his tendency to fight in spurts instead of applying bell-to-bell aggression. In fact, Pacquiao wasn't close to being an effective aggressor and wasn't even Floyd's toughest fight, something that had a lot to do with their natural fighting styles and Mayweather's advantages in size and reach.

This past week Chris Chase of the USA today wrote, "Think back to this past May, if you will. It was a Saturday night. You gathered with your friends, either at their place or yours, then you collectively sat around, put $100 into the toilet and flushed, just waving goodbye to that substantial amount of cash. Remember that? The night of the dud of the century bout between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, the one Mayweather controlled from the outset while tediously jabbing his way to victory, all while your $99.95 went up in smoke, like the hundred-dollar bills Floyd probably uses to light cigars? Remember that? Well, it's been three-and-a-half months and Manny Pacquiao still somehow thinks he won that fight."

Pacquiao thinks he won the fight? Really. Just look at his disposition during the bout after the fifth round and tell me that's a fighter who really believes in his heart that he's winning. Manny looked confused and bewildered because he was.

No, Mayweather didn't beat him up and yes Pacquiao had an injured shoulder, but come on, Mayweather, with the exception of the fourth round, basically controlled the entire bout. He fought when he wanted to. He pot-shotted and boxed when he wanted to and even backed Pacquiao up when he sensed Manny was confused and searching for an answer on how to attack him with even a modicum of success. Something that never really transpired over the course of 12-rounds or 36 minutes of fighting/boxing.

It's nearly four months out from the fight and Pacquiao is healing from shoulder surgery. There's no doubt that he's not done fighting and I expect that he'll try and get a rematch with Mayweather. If I were him, I certainly would. I'd justify it by reasoning even with one arm I didn't really get beat up and managed to win a few rounds. And if I'm Mayweather, I'd announce my retirement after I beat Andre Berto and then UN-retire and come back to fight Pacquiao for my 50th career win. And my justification for that would be the money for the fight, though not as good as the first time, will still be off the chart. In addition to that, Pacquiao wasn't my toughest fight and there's nothing he can do differently if we fight again.

And therein lays the problem for Manny if he gets another shot at Floyd. Firstly, he better come to reality and accept that he lost to Mayweather and really never even gave him one good scare during the entire fight when they last met. If he accepts the truth, which isn't a given, somehow he and trainer Freddie Roach better come up with a plan that enables Manny to get inside and force the fight, thus making it impossible for Mayweather not to engage with him. This means Pacquiao will have to reinvent himself stylistically, and those odds aren’t too good, especially if he thinks just bringing more of what didn’t work the last time will work. This is the real world and reinventing himself from a stylistic vantage point won’t be easy. This is the real world and not Rocky III.

Sadly, before Manny even has a chance to try and reconstruct his style, he must break from the mold in which most elite fighters can't admit they lost unless they were knocked out or punched all over the ring. Based on his thoughts suggesting that he won and Mayweather ran, it doesn't look good. Lastly, it's really not all that difficult to accept if you're a big Pacquiao fan that Mayweather won their fight because he really did. And believe it or not it doesn't make you less of a person or fan because your guy lost. It's life and everybody suffers setbacks and defeats, no one is spared from that and hopefully we learn and grow from it.

http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/...mayweather-won

[littlemac]

And the ****** a$$ pac***$ were backing it up bwhahaha......