By Chris Williams: Freddie Roach is skeptical about Floyd Mayweather Jr. agreeing to fight his number #1 cash cow Manny Pacquiao in 2012, believing that if the fight could be made it would have been already. Instead, Roach thinks that Mayweather Jr. will choose to fight WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan in 2012, who just happens to be trained by Roach as well.
Roach doesn’t say why Pacquiao vs. Mayweather hasn’t been made in the past, but he needs to look at his own fighter for part of the blame. If Pacquiao would have agreed to the random blood testing that Mayweather had asked for last year then the fight would have been made.
Roach said this to mlive.com: “They have a better chance of getting Mayweather into the ring than Manny. If the fight was going to happen, it wouldn’t have happened already.”
Roach sounds more than a little jaded. It’s too bad he can’t see how his team had a part in the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight not getting made. You ask Mayweather to want to fight a guy but then don’t agree to the Olympic style random blood tests that he’s asking for. Mayweather agreed to the weight penalty for the fight, but when it came to Pacquiao agreeing to what Mayweather wanted, it wasn’t going to happen.
I wouldn’t blame Mayweather for wanting to fight Khan. It’s the much easier fight. Khan has a weak chin and has been matched very carefully to keep him away from big punchers since he was knocked out by Breidis Prescott. Mayweather will beat Khan easily and make a decent payday in the process. Maybe then Pacquiao vs. Mayweather can be made, as long as Pacquiao agrees to the full random blood tests without a cut off date.
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