By Eric Thomas: In the past week, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum mentioned that former IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron, who he signed recently, is a possible future opponent for Manny Pacquiao because of Cintron’s ability to make 147.

This news has come with mixed feelings with boxing fans with some fans like while others just plain hate it. One person who doesn’t seem to care for the idea of Pacquiao fighting the 31-year-old Cintron is Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach. He doesn’t see the point in Pacquiao fighting Cintron because of his lack of success in his last fight a year ago against Paul Williams.

In an interview at the examiner.com, Roach said “Didn’t Kermit quit in his last fight? Who would pay to see that?” Roach is talking about Cintron’s fight against Paul Williams last year where Cintron dove or tripped and fell out of the ring and hurt himself during the fall. The bout was halted in the 4th round at that point with Williams willing a 4th round technical decision.

To some boxing fans, they saw it as a quit job by Cintron. They felt that Cintron didn’t want stick around to mix it up with Williams for what would have likely been 12 hard rounds of given and take. It looks like Roach feels that way too. But Arum seems to like the idea of Cintron vs. Pacquiao. This is a fight that won’t happen all that soon because Pacquiao is likely going to be matched against Juan Manuel Marquez after next month’s bout against 39-year-old Shane Mosley.

The Marquez-Pacquiao III fight will take up the rest of 2011. If Arum wants to put Cintron in with Pacquiao, it will have to take place in 2012 some time. Besides Cintron, Pacquiao also could fight a rematch with Miguel Cotto, whom he already easily beat in 2009 in a 12th round TKO win. Arum has more or less had Cotto redeem himself since the Pacquiao defeat by beating WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman and Ricardo Mayorga. Next, Cotto will be facing Antonio Margarito in a rematch on September 17th. That might be the last fight for Cotto before he’s put back in with Pacquiao in a rematch.