Comments Thread For: Roach: Only Pacquiao Has The Say on When To Retire

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Freddie Roach, the longtime trainer of eight division champion Manny Pacquiao, says the superstar boxer will be the one to decide his fighting future. This past Saturday night, Pacquiao - now 40-years-old - turned back the clock on his career, with a very impressive twelve round decision victory over Keith Thurman to capture the WBA welterweight title at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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[Letmaku]

Pacman is in big trouble if he allows Spence or Bud to tickle punch him the way he allowed One Time for the show time. Rematch One Time and then retire for good!!!

[Curtis Harper]

Only the boxer will decide when he retires ?!?!?!?!?

You learn something new everyday............

[A.K]

If the Floyd fight doesn’t materialize he has no reason to keep fighting, its better to go out ontop instead of with a L to Spence.

[Truth Serum]

Pacman is in big trouble if he allows Spence or Bud to tickle punch him the way he allowed One Time for the show time. Rematch One Time and then retire for good!!!

Spence or Bud will be in big trouble if Manny lands a power shot. Thurman looks tougher than those 2 and still got dropped and stunned by the most powerfull Welter in the game plus Thurman has been fight tested by the top of the division.

Manny is making boxing fun again by taking his infamous risky fights against the much bigger guys and beating them with no controversey.

[thesmokingman]

Man, after Roach got fired the last time one would have figured that he should just keep his mouth shut.

[boxingitis]

Manny just Beat Lucas, Broner, and Thurman in 1 year.

[Curtis Harper]

Manny just Beat Lucas, Broner, and Thurman in 1 year.

Yeah, Pac did beat a legit guy

[spenz]

Jezzes Looks like Manny is hell bent on committing suicide.. ahem .. I meant passing the torch to the worthy one. And no one can stop him. Not the ****roach, not Buboy, not his fans or even his family. He's pushing through seven gates of hell no matter what.

There is a recent video out there on PBC on fox with Shawn Porter and Abner Mares who accidentally divulge the PBC master plan by implying that the winner of Porter vs. Spence would indeed fight Manny. Unless, floyd gets in the way.

[Bronx2245]

Pacquiao camp prefers Danny Garcia, Mikey Garcia over Spence, Porter

July 23, 2019:

LOS ANGELES – Manny Pacquiao’s team isn’t interested in pitting the newly minted WBA “super” champion against his fellow titlists Errol Spence Jr. and Shawn Porter.

Pacquiao’s head trainer Buboy Fernandez and Sean Gibbons, an international matchmaker who is now managing the Filipino star’s boxing affairs, are one in saying that Spence and Porter are both high-risk, low-reward opponents.

Especially, they want Pacquiao nowhere near Spence (25-1, 21 KOs), the IBF welterweight champion who incidentally is set to unify with Porter — the WBC titlist — in September.

“What has Errol Spence done?” Gibbons said a day after Pacquiao battered Keith Thurman in their grueling showdown in Las Vegas to become the oldest welterweight champion in boxing history.

“We are not planning to fight Shawn Porter or Errol Spence,” he stressed.

Fernandez, meanwhile, said there’s no point in taking on the 29-year-old Spence, whose style, movement and work rate will likely pose problems for an ageing Pacquiao.

“If we beat Spence, what will we gain? And what will happen if he ends up beating Manny?” Fernandez said.

Instead, Fernandez and Gibbons are looking at either former champions Danny Garcia (35-2, 21 KOs) and Mikey Garcia (39-1, 30 KOs), who previously lost to Thurman and Spence, respectively.

Like Thurman, Danny Garcia and Mikey Garcia — both 31 years old — are come-forward fighters who also love to trade punches, a style tailor-made for Pacquiao.

After what he accomplished in the sport, the Filipino icon has earned the right to cherry-pick opponents. More importantly, Fernandez is concerned with his childhood friend’s career and health

“He is close to 41. What we need to do is protect him and his career,” said Fernandez.

And that’s why he is keeping Pacquiao away from more dangerous fighters.

https://www.philstar.com/sports/2019/07/23/1937213/pacquiao-camp-prefers-danny-garcia-mikey-garcia-over-spence-porter