By Chris Williams: Trainer Roger Mayweather has a good eye for dangerous opposition, and he doesn’t see the 5’6” Manny Pacquiao as any kind of a threat to his fighter Floyd Mayweather Jr. To Roger, Pacquiao is just another name for Mayweather to add to his resume in the win column as he marches forward towards beating former heavyweight world champion Rocky Marciano’s historic 49-0 record.
Roger wants to see Mayweather better the mark even though it’s already been surpassed a couple of times by Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Ricardo Lopez. Finishing with a perfect 50-0 record would look good in the record boxing for future fans of the sport when they look at Mayweather’s record and resume.
Roger expects Mayweather to obliterate Pacquiao like a speed bump in the road on Saturday without any problems whatsoever. Roger’s main though isn’t the Pacquiao fight, it’s the fights that come after him. He wants Pacquiao out of the way so that Mayweather can move onto his other two fights that he’ll need to get to the magical 50-0 mark.
“He can beat this mother [expletive] with what he got already,” Roger said via the Telegraph.co.uk. “I’d like to see Floyd beat Rocky Marciano’s record, and I know he can. It’s part of boxing. I believe he’ll knock him [Pacquiao] out within five rounds. I can’t see nothing that Pacquiao can do. It’s just a matter of Floyd being focused and doing what he needs to do. And that’s whoop his [expletive].
Let’s get there, get him out of the way and go to the next one,” Roger said.
It’s in Mayweather’s best interest to blast Pacquiao out to make sure that the judges don’t have a say in the final outcome of the fight. We saw what happened to Juan Manuel Marquez in his first three fights against Pacquiao with him out-boxing him each time and either receiving a loss or a draw.
Marquez showed that it’s difficult to get a decision against a popular fighter like Pacquiao. That’s why he decided that he wasn’t even going to let the judges have anything to do with the scoring of his last fight with Pacquiao in 2012. Marquez worked on his punching power with one of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the business in Angel Heredia, and he then went out and knocked Pacquiao out cold. In taking a page out of Marquez’s playbook, Mayweather has been working on his punching power as well for his fight against Pacquiao, and he’s going to be looking to remove all doubts who the better fighter is by knocking Pacquiao out on May 2nd.
For Mayweather to get Pacquiao out in five rounds like Roger is expecting him to do, he’s going to need to be in the forward gear the entire fight. If he just stands there and let’s Pacquiao jump in and out, he’ll be slowing things down and limiting what he can do because Pacquiao has the advantage on his opponents when he’s the one who is coming at his opponents rather than them walking him down.
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