Comments Thread For: Roach is Concerned: Pacquiao Looks Tired, Sluggish in Sparring

[BigAlexSand]

Doesn't he often say things like, "I'm concerned, he looks distracted." I recall it happening at least twice before, during build ups for fights that weren't selling.

If he's just being honest then, fair enough. Never easy to get a read on Freddy because he casually mixes honest evaluation with a dose of the obligatory promotional bs.

This is Roach being Roach. Selling the fight as the trainer. It's their way to sell, as you said (as well as I picked up on), they have used the same concepts for previous fights.

[PunchyPotorff]

why would roach announce this? He is undermining his fighter, perhaps Manny is 40! He is not going to train with the sam gusto that he did at 26. He could be blowing smoke, but Freddie has a habit of taking shots at Manny, somethings should stay in camp, I wonder if Manny reads some of these articles that Freddie is responsible for. I am not a huge fan of Manny, but the premise of this article is absolutely ridiculous, and unfair to the fighter

Yep. Roach has always talked too much, just like Arum has said about him for a while now. Just like pitchers need to keep their tricks to themselves, Freddie needs to talk less. Manny these days talks too much as well, although not so much about boxing. Like some others have said here, Roach is probably just helping to sell a fight that most likely won't do so much on PPV otherwise. But still, there are ways to do that without this time of blabbering away.

[-Kev-]

Roach has always been a great matchmaker and a good promoter for Pac. He obviously has his promoter hat on in this interview, trying to make the readers believe Vargas has a chance because Pac looks sluggish

[Nightfall]

Fredrick the salesman

[Chrismart]

I tend to take most things trainers say with a pinch of salt.
One day though, he is going to look slow and sluggish in camp. Time catches up with everyone. Hopefully by then he hangs them up, as it sucks to see a fighter keep going and struggle in fights he would normally walk through.

[deathofaclown]

Roach has always been a great matchmaker and a good promoter for Pac. He obviously has his promoter hat on in this interview, trying to make the readers believe Vargas has a chance because Pac looks sluggish

This is it.

Or when he's in with a real live opponent, then Roach says Pac has his killer instinct back to sell the fight.

Whichever fits.

[Shrap]

Pac should already be retired by now. He's got nothing left to prove and he's been in decline for a while.

[bojangles1987]

Doesn't he often say things like, "I'm concerned, he looks distracted." I recall it happening at least twice before, during build ups for fights that weren't selling.

If he's just being honest then, fair enough. Never easy to get a read on Freddy because he casually mixes honest evaluation with a dose of the obligatory promotional bs.

Maybe he does, but I remember Roach always talking about Pacquiao obliterating his sparring partners. It was just a week ago, I think, that we heard how great Pac looks.

[JASON SHAW]

Poochquiao the ped/drug kingpin

All those drugs and alcohol are catching up to this dirty doper lying politician! Hope vargas puts him to sleep and sends him back to filisheno land!

[Pozomuro]

Roach is following his universal handbook on "How to Sell ****ty Fights" step by step.