By Trife James: Yes, this fight is dead in the water for now, but I recently read an article from Freddie Roach breaking down the style of Floyd Mayweather Jr. and what makes him the unbeaten fighter he is today.

Roach said in an article from the Telegraph “It’s a complicated game plan I was beginning to put together. You look at the way Floyd fights. If you put pressure on him, on the ropes, he rolls and ducks, and counters and if you get too aggressive, he’ll walk you so cleverly onto a counter punch. He’s not the most offensive fighter, not the most entertaining fighter, but he is great at what he does.” This is exactly correct, love him or hate him Mayweather is the most skilled and intelligent boxer around hands down and he knows how to punish you, it would indeed be a very tough fight for Manny Pacquiao, the toughest of his career in my opinion.

Roach went on to say: “Do we have to be ready for all of it? Yes. It’s going to be a real, real, mental fight, and this is 100 per cent the biggest challenge Manny Pacquiao has ever faced, I don’t think anyone trains Mayweather. He was born to fight. It is in his blood, there are not a lot of weaknesses in his game. It has to be a special 36 minutes from Manny. We have to fight the perfect fight.”

Roach was also asked about whether he thinks the fight will ever happen he said: “I think it will happen. It’s good for boxing, it is good for the world. If it doesn’t happen, we might go back into a recession in boxing again, because it is the fight which is anticipated. The public wants to see it, and I want to see it too.”

I for one hope this fight can be made. They need to sort out the big blood testing issue because if Pacquiao gets past Joshua Clottey which he will and Floyd beats Shane Mosley which I also think he will then it still leaves both fighters needing to sort out the blood testing in order for this fight to happen. Whether they can do this we’ll have to wait and see. But for the time being lets enjoy Pacquiao-Clottey and Mayweather-Mosley, both are good fights but I think we’ll all agree Mayweather-Mosley is the more competitive and more anticipated.