By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is coming out with some excuses as to why Pacquiao struggled so badly in losing to Tim Bradley recently. Roach says that Pacquiao eased off at the end of the fight in order to keep from being hurt possibly, but Roach thinks Pacquiao would have stopped him had he gone all out.
Roach also still thinks Pacquiao won by a lopsided score of 10 rounds to 2. I’m surprised Roach isn’t inflating Pacquiao’s dismal performance even more by saying something really silly like Pacquiao won 12 rounds to 0 or 11 rounds to 1. That would go over real good. I guess Roach is smart enough to know how that would make him look if he came up with something like that.
Roach said to Philboxing.com “Manny fought well and had been in control from the opening bell on. He was all over Bradley throughout the 12 round showdown and could have really stopped him had he not relented in then homestretch.”
If Roach thinks Pacquiao fought well then that’s pretty sad, because Pacquiao was stumbling around on night long, missing shots and throwing only with his left hand. Pacquiao’s balance was completely off, and his accuracy was horrible. How Roach can watch the Pacquiao-Bradley fight and come to the conclusion that Pacquaio easily won the fight by a lopsided score suggests that Roach is having a hard time distancing himself in order to get a perspective with really happened in that fight.
It’s always good to bring a person along that will give it to you straight, because Roach needs someone to sit him down and tell him how badly Pacquiao performed in the fight. It was just awful.
Unfortunately Pacquiao hasn’t stopped an opponent in years since his questionable 12th stoppage of Miguel Cotto in 2009. Roach seems unable to grasp the reality that Pacquiao is no longer knocking anyone out and instead keeps faithfully making knockout predictions every fight. Pacquiao wasn’t going to get a knockout against Bradley because Pacquiao’s power isn’t big enough for the welterweight division. The reason he was getting knockouts when he first moved up to the welterweight division could be partly due to his opponents being weight drained and/or coming off recent beatings. It’s not happening anymore though, is it?
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