Roach hoping to get Andre Berto as another of his ‘Super’ Sparring Partners

By Boxing News - 12/21/2009 - Comments

Image: Roach hoping to get Andre Berto as another of his ‘Super’ Sparring PartnersBy Peter Wells: With Mayweather and Pacquiao getting ready to start training after the Christmas break, Freddie is already rolling in a load of ‘Super’ sparring partners. First of all Amir Khan, whom trains with Freddie, was chosen as a sparring partner as we all knew he would be. Then the recent news is that Roach has chosen WBO Light Welterweight champion Timothy Bradley as another sparring partner. Which would be a good idea, as he has good hand speed, and is well built, but isn’t very tall, which is where Khan would come in.

Then in recent news from Boxing scene.com, Freddie is looking to sign Andre Berto to his ‘Dream Team’ of sparring partners. As long as Berto doesn’t get injured against Shane Mosley, in their upcoming bout next January; if Berto is to win it would have him in much better mental strength as well as physical.

He is to have Khan and Bradley as his main sparring partners, mainly because they don’t want to get Andre in their big plans just yet, in case something happens in his fight with Mosley. There is no word from camp Mayweather who usually keeps sparring private. Roger Mayweather would need to bring in some good, fast sparring partners who can imitate Manny’s speed, which won’t be easy.

But Berto, Khan and Bradley can’t imitate Floyd’s shoulder-roll style. Mayweather has said many times on HBO 24/7 that he doesn’t train for fighters, they train for him, and he doesn’t watch tapes of his fighters, as he can adapt to any style.



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