By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach thinks that the boxing world are hoping that Floyd Mayweather Jr (47-0, 26 KOs) will taste defeat for the first time when the two fighters go at it on 5/2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Roach sees the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight as a good vs. bad type of thing, and he thinks that the boxing fans are ready to see Mayweather’s perfect record receive its first defeat.
Roach said via Philboxing.com “the whole world will be disappointed.”
It looks like Roach is taking his own personal values and including the entire world with them. It’s a very odd way of thinking, because it’s a warped way of seeing things. If you look at it from a logical standpoint rather than from Roach’s emotions, you can see that Mayweather brings in the superior pay-per-view numbers.
It stands to reason that if Mayweather is bringing in the better pay-per-view numbers than Pacquiao, then it means that the fans prefer to see Mayweather over Pacquiao right now. While this only accounts for the American public, because they’re the ones who are buying the fight on PPV, it still suggests that the rest of the world will likely follow in line with the way the U.S fans see the fight.
“I can see it in his eyes, in his body movement, his attitude in training that he really wants to win and win decisively,” said Roach about Pacquiao. “I can feel when we’re doing the mitts. With the way he hits the mitts, I can see it on how he responds to the things we want him to do. The efforts he has been doing which I didn’t see in his previous similarly important fights.”
If Pacquiao is over-punching while working the mitts with Roach, it doesn’t mean anything at all. It just means that Pacquiao could be putting himself in danger of suffering a hand injury if he doesn’t take it easy in training.
Pacquiao obviously punches as hard as he can during his fights, so I don’t see him being able to punch any harder than he ever has before.
Pacquiao will only punch himself out if he goes out there trying to throw with ever more power than he has in the past.
We are talking about a 36-year-old fighter who is on the verge of turning 37. I don’t think it’s realistic to assume that Pacquiao is going to be punching harder in this fight than he was in his earlier fights in his career. You don’t get stronger as you get older; at least that’s how it normally is.
We have seen in the sport of baseball how some sluggers are able to develop power and start hitting tons of homers in their late 30s. However, I think it’s safe to say that we’re not going to see Pacquiao suddenly turn into King Kong overnight and come out with the kind of punching power that would knock over brick buildings.
Pacquiao is going to be the same fighter he was in his recent fights. History tells us that Pacquiao won’t be punching any harder than he was in his recent fights against Chris Algieri, Tim Bradley and Brandon Rios. In those fights, Pacquiao wasn’t a murderous puncher. He was just a guy who needed to throw a lot of shots each round to get a decision.
“Manny’s anger could be because everything has to be his (Mayweather’s) way,” Roach said.
There Roach goes with the anger thing again. If he’s on the level about Pacquiao being angry for this fight, then we could see Pacquiao get knocked out, because he’s going to come out there fighting in a wild and uncontrollable manner. Once Pacquiao loses his senses completely, he’s going to be a sitting duck for Mayweather.
This is the exact style that Mayweather has always loved to fight during his career. Roach needs to get a clue that Pacquiao needs to be using his brains instead of his brawn, because he’s going to wind up getting knocked cold again. I think we’re about to see history repeat itself with Pacquiao getting knocked unconscious like he was in his fourth fight against Juan Manuel Marquez. Roach also encouraged Pacquiao to fight like a wild man in that fight too, and we saw what happened to Pacquiao.
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