Comments Thread For: Roach Warns Horn: This is Going To Be a Short and Sweet KO!

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

As previously reported, Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach says his star fighter, Manny Pacquiao, is seeking a dominant win over Australia's Jeff Horn to try and coax Floyd Mayweather Jr into a rematch. Pacquiao, who was defeated by American Mayweather in an unanimous points decision in Las Vegas in 2015, will defend his WBO welterweight belt against former schoolteacher and rank outsider Horn in Brisbane on Sunday.
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[ConRaffery]

"(Pacquiao) doesn't like to predict knockouts and so forth but I do," Roach said

LOL. He might be right on this one though

[BigStomps]

This piece of shet Roach has been predicting a Pacquiao knockout for the last 8 years and nothing has happened.
I wish he would just shut the **** up and stop talking to the media!

[Bronx2245]

What's next for Manny?

Dan Rafael
June 28, 2017:

By having Pacquiao fight in the Philippines, don't expect him to fight a big name, Arum said. The welterweight division is loaded with talent, including titleholders Keith Thurman and Errol Spence Jr. as well as former titleholders Danny Garcia and Shawn Porter, all of whom are associated with Al Haymon's Premier Boxing Champions, which rarely does business with Arum.

Instead, Arum said one opponent Pacquiao could fight is the Top Rank-promoted Konstantin Ponomarev (32-0, 13 KOs), 24, of Russia, who is not well known but scored his biggest win, a split decision against then-undefeated Brad Solomon, on the undercard of Pacquiao's third fight with Timothy Bradley Jr. in April 2016.

"One guy we could match Manny with is Ponomarev. He's a very tough kid. He's undefeated and he's a good fighter, but there could be others," Arum said.

Arum said he did not think it would make financial sense to put Pacquiao on pay-per-view against an opponent such as Thurman or Garcia.

"If you put Manny in with any of those guys, even if we could make a deal, they're really unknown outside the United States and they're not that well known in the U.S. outside the boxing community," Arum said. "So Manny versus Thurman or the other guys in the division, while they would be good fights and they are good fighters, will do mediocre numbers on pay-per-view. Maybe 300,000 or 400,000 buys. So unless there was somebody who breaks out to become known to the public at large it's really not worth it because Manny wants to get paid and the opponent wants to get paid a lot of money."

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...-says-bob-arum

[RememberTUA?]

This piece of shet Roach has been predicting a Pacquiao knockout for the last 8 years and nothing has happened.
I wish he would just shut the **** up and stop talking to the media!

You're the piece of Shet, I wish you would shut the **** up and stop typing pathetic lame posts!

[Travycat]

Freddie and Manny may be the only people in that equation that still need money. Floyd will literally be border-lining on billionaire status from what Vegas says. A supposed 600 mill net worth, plus 200-300 for this at the end and his investment in Berkshire. A guy who everyone chastised might become the first billionaire boxer. Kinda cool.

[Badboy9]

with no drug testing in place for this fight, I do believe pacquiao will have his first knock out in 8 years. Makes me go HHHMMM???????

[thack]

The old boys are getting a little tiresome now we have to just have the patience and money to stand by and pay while they fight guys who have little chance of beating them when there are lots of guys out there they won't fight that probably would.

Bored with Freddie bored with Manny and Floyd, time for some new faces.