By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Fredidie Roach had his own thoughts about Floyd Mayweather’s recent racist video he put on out Ustream, saying in an article at gmanews.tv, “It’s really a cheap low blow, but again, consider where it came from. We tried to fight him. He said no. He doesn’t want to fight.” Roach is getting his fighter Manny Pacquiao ready to take on Antonio Margarito for the vacant World Boxing Council junior middleweight title at the Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. The Margarito-Pacquiao fight will take place at a 151 pound catch weight, so that Pacquiao have a slight advantage against the bigger Margarito.

Pacquiao hasn’t said much about Mayweather’s video, and instead has focused on continuing to get ready for his fight against Margarito. Pacquiao needs to be in the best shape possible for that fight, because Margarito is probably the best fighter that Pacquiao will have ever faced. He’s beaten both Joshua Clottey and Miguel Cotto in the past, and that makes him dangerous. Margarito used to average in the low 100s in punch output. He hasn’t been putting in nearly those numbers in his last two fights and his conditioning looks to have declined during that time.

If he can somehow get back to where he was two years ago, he could give Pacquiao a lot of problems in this fight. However, Pacquiao has most of the advantages in this bout and should win it without too many problems. The fight that Roach and Pacquiao want, or at least used to want, is the Mayweather bout. But they’ve had no luck in getting Mayweather to sign on the dotted line. Mayweather said in his video that he was planning on taking a year off from boxing. It’s hard to tell if he’s telling the truth or not because he sometimes says stuff that he doesn’t mean.