By Chris Williams: Trainer Freddie Roach is still having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that his fighter former WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao got beat by Tim Bradley recently. Roach still thinks Pacquiao won.
I know it’s kind of sad because you’d think Roach would be able to acknowledge that his fighter Pacquiao is getting old and he had one of his poorer efforts. It’s likely that no one who saw that fight would say that Pacquiao looked good in there against Bradley. However, Roach thinks Pacquiao looked very impressive for some reason.
Roach said to philboxing.com “Manny did not lose the title; it was given to Bradley almost on a silver platter. Bradley did not win it; the judges gave it to him.”
This is too funny. Roach should be a textbook version of a poor sport who can’t seem to understand that the gravy train is starting to come off it’s tracks and slow down after all these years. Roach can try and resist reality but the fact is Pacquiao couldn’t get the job done because of stamina and a lack of conditioning. He needed to be in great shape while at the same time he had to be able to fight hard for the full three minutes of every round to have a chance at getting the win, but Pacquiao couldn’t do that.
Pacquiao deserved to lose his WBO title because he was stumbling around, missing constantly. The judges saw how tired Pacquiao looked and noted that he falling off balance when he’s throw wild shots. They also noted how Pacquiao wasn’t fighting hard for the full three minutes of every round. I don’t know how Roach scores fights, but you don’t give rounds to fighters that only land shots in the seconds of the round. Pacquiao would land some shots in the last seconds, but he was missing most of them in the process. It was the shotgun approach to throwing shots by Pacquiao. If he were doing that for the full round, then, yeah, he’d have won all the rounds, but that’s not what he was doing.
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