Roach thinks Mayweather will regret not fighting Pacquiao

By Boxing News - 09/20/2011 - Comments

Image: Roach thinks Mayweather will regret not fighting PacquiaoBy Chris Williams: In response to Floyd Mayweather Jr. saying he doesn’t need to fight Manny Pacquiao when asked about the Filipino star at the Mayweather-Ortiz post fight press conference, Freddie Roach, the trainer for Manny Pacquiao, said Mayweather will live to regret it if he doesn’t fight Pacquiao before retiring from the sport in the future.

Roach said this to abs-cbnnews.com: “They will say ‘why didn’t you fight Pacquiao? He’s undefeated, but he never fought Manny Pacquiao. He never fought the best fighter of his era, and that will haunt him the rest of his life.”

I doubt it. Mayweather is clearly the most popular fighter in the United States, and perhaps even the entire world. He doesn’t need Pacquiao. It’s not that he hasn’t been trying to make the fight happen with Pacquiao, because Mayweather attempted to put a fight together with Manny last year, only be told that Pacquiao didn’t want blood testing for performance enhancing drugs within three weeks of the fight. That was the golden opportunity to put the fight together and Pacquiao and Arum blew it. Mayweather would fight him now but Pacquiao won’t have his training camp take place in the U.S for the entire training camp. Pacquiao wants to train half of the time in the Philippines, and that makes it impossible for the USADA to test him there. All Pacquiao has to do is stay in the U.S the entire time for this one training camp and then we’d have a fight, but they don’t want to do that.

Arum said this to sportsillustrated.cnn.com: “If you tell Pacquiao he can’t train in the Philippines, then you end up in a bad situation. It would be here’s the American telling the Filipino what he can or can’t do. Manny can’t agree to that.”

There it is. You see the roadblock right there and it’s not from Mayweather. There won’t be any regrets from Mayweather because he’s the one bending over backwards trying to make the fight happen.



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