By Manuel Perez: The great trainer for Manny Pacquiao, Freddie Roach, now looks as if he wants Manny Pacquiao to wait on the winner of the July 18th bout between Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Juan Manuel Marquez bout, according to the Manila Standard. This is a brilliant move on Roaches’ part, since Pacquiao said recently that he only wants to fight one more time and then retire and go into politics.
Before this, Roach had been talking all kinds of odd fights for Pacquiao while Manny was waiting on the Marquez-Mayweather winner, none of the bouts I saw Pacquiao able to win. Thankfully, Pacquiao came up with the one more fight bit, because he would have been in major trouble had he got in the ring with Miguel Cotto or Shane Mosley, two of the names that Roach had mentioned as fighters that he was looking at for Pacquiao.
It would have been an insane move for Pacquiao to fight either of those guys with a potential Mayweather or Marquez blockbuster fight on the horizon. Roach wouldn’t have looked to good if Pacquiao had gone forward and fought Cotto and got spanked, thus taking away the genius tag that some of the more gullible boxing fans have pinned on Roach after Pacquiao’s win over a shot Hatton.
It’s too bad that Pacquiao isn’t going to be fighting Cotto, because I would have loved to see it. I would have died laughing if Pacquiao got beat, which I’m 99% certain, would have happened.
I wish Pacquiao would put his foot down and go ahead and take a fight with Cotto, Edwin Valero or Mosley, because it would priceless to see Roach and the Pacquiao band scurrying around after Pacquiao is defeated trying to implement damage control. Instead of Hatton looking at retirement, it would be Pacquiao the one that was hanging up the boxing gloves.
It sounds like Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum doesn’t want the Mayweather-Marquez winner all that much, because according to the Standard, Arum said that the most that Mayweather Jr – or Marquez – can receive in the purse split is a paltry 35% compared to Pacquiao’s 65%. Frankly, that sounds like a nutty idea and a perfect way to blow what could be a good fight.
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