Comments Thread For: Roach Warns That He May Ask Pacquiao To Retire

[aboutfkntime]

freddie won't be able to use the mitts forever, and he's clearly deteriorating in his speech, but that doesn't mean he can't train world class boxers.

lots of trainers haven't been athletic enough or fit enough to work mitts with their fighters.

at this stage, with a fighter like cotto or manny, you're brought in for advice, getting good sparring, little tweaks here and there. you don't have to work 15 rounds of mitts with manny to train him.

Yea, there should be competent guys available who can easily put in the physical repetitive work. Pac is a vet.

A bit sad to hear that Freddie is deteriorating.

[aboutfkntime]

Roach is the only person from Pac's camp and fan club that realizes how badly Pacquiao was outclassed by Mayweather. Pacman looked bad and Roach sees the same effort in the next fight (which they can't claim another injury as the cause); he should ask Pac to retire.

Even in the press conference (for those who paid attention) Roach was indicating that it was a bad night for Pacquiao and they couldn't execute the game plan; Then Arum interrupted him and started the whole shoulder injury excuse segment.

Yea, but Freddie is responsible for that, and any subsequent adjustments.

[aboutfkntime]

Oh, please. It's damn near impossible for any fighter to look good (or sharp) against Floyd. He's a technician. It makes him look 'boring' in the process, but it's just defensive wizardry.
Pac shut out Algieri, Rios, and looked solid against Marquez until end of round 6. The next fight should be against Khan. It's a great barometer for him, and then close out his career with a Matthyse fight.
Or just retire now bc he's a living legend.
But he's not looking shot by any means.

Yep, a lot of people predicted that exact same result 5 years ago.

Pac had to prevent that fight from becoming a boxing match, and that was always going to be a huge call considering Mayweathers style and length advantage.