By Chris Williams: Not happy with how truly awful his fighter WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 KO’s) looked in winning a questionable decision over 38-year-old lightweight Juan Manuel Marquez last November, trainer Freddie Roach is training Pacquiao to try and knockout his next challenger Timothy Bradley (28-0, 12 KO’s) on June 9th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Roach told philboxing.com “I want Manny to win by a knockout and that’s what we will be preparing for. How to win by KO.”

I bet it burns Roach up how crummy Pacquiao looked in winning a decision over Marquez when pretty much the rest of the world saw Marquez as the winner. The judges scored it for Pacquiao, but the boxing world basically saw it the other way. That’s winning a ribbon that doesn’t have a lot of value other than just the ribbon itself. Some boxing fans saw Pacquiao as the winner, but a whole bunch more saw Marquez as winning the fight.

Roach faces a problem in trying to train Pacquiao to KO Bradley. The problem that he faces is that Pacquiao is no longer knocking fighters out. He’s had a huge dry spell of three years since he knocked out his last opponent, a weight drained Miguel Cotto, who made the mistake of agreeing to fight Pacquiao at a catchweight handicap. However, you can make a strong argument that the Cotto-Pacquiao fight shouldn’t have been stopped in the 12th round because Cotto was still fighting back when referee Kenny Bayless stepped in and halted the fight.

Had he not stopped the fight, Cotto would have made it the distance and Pacquiao’s dry spell of no knockouts would be five fights instead of four. But four is bad enough. Pacquiao just doesn’t seem to have the power to KO legit welterweights. Sure, he can stop a light welterweight like Ricky Hatton and Cotto, but that was years ago. Pacquiao doesn’t move as well now compared to the way he did back then, and he looks to have lost some hand speed as well.