Comments Thread For: Roach: Not Sure If Pacquiao is Mad at Me - I Haven't Been Paid

[RomanReigns]

LOL, we gotta John David Jackson situation going on here.

Pacquiao is older than Methusala. Roach needs to train younger boxers.

[BoZz]

pacquiao made you, you didn't make him..not sure why pac stayed with roach for so long..he has been destroying fighters careers...most over rated trainer in history

[Gentblue]

I agree with Roach, Ive never seen Manny fight like that as he normally bosses the ring.

Combine age with the fact that Manny even in his prime has issues with fighter that use rough house tactics and you have a different Pac .... For being a brawler( not totally) Pac is very clean.

[RSBonos]

Maybe Roach can stop pretending that he has any say in Pac's career whatsoever.

[Majic]

I honestly thought pacquiao was throwing the fight.

[Scopedog]

Is there anyone left pretending that Roach is still a good coach? In pretty much every fight I can think of for the last few years where he was in one of the corners and his fighter wasn't already a massive favourite to win, his guy has come away with an L. Even in some of those fights where his guy HAS been a big favourite he's come away with an L, the Horn fight being the best example. Roach keeps getting quoted in recent articles saying that now's the time for Pacquiao to retire, which I think is probably a good idea, but I also think Roach needs to take his own advice.

[Nomadic]

Maybe he got IRS problems from 2015 too.

[Mike D]

Like I said before, that Saturday night (or Sunday morning actually) was rock bottom for that entire team. Flat out. Of their entire run. The JMM KO wasn't, and neither was losing to Floyd. Those were against two first ballot Hall of Famers. Two of the best of their generation.

Team Pacquiao thought this was going to be easy money. A quick little showcase and money grab against a nobody. It was the perfect storm, though. Go to a guy's country, his own backyard with 50,000 Australians behind him. The kid had absolutely zero to lose and EVERYTHING to gain. And he fought like it, too. So many people said that it was going to be a f**king cakewalk but I was worried about this fight from the onset. And I expressed that sentiment here but I was largely laughed at. Posters thought I was just saying that **** to legitimize the fight. But here you have a guy with nothing to lose, and a rabid, robust crowd right behind him, and in the other corner you have a 38 year old, end of the line, part-time fighter who has been on the biggest stages this sport has offered. And you're going to get up for a no-name if you're Manny? When everyone is telling you that this guy is a nobody and a guy that you can KO at a time of your choosing? When you've been through 68 some career pro fights? When you've fought under the brightest lights this sport has to offer? And you're gonna get up mentally for this? A guy you didn't even know existed? When you're a full-time politician?

Horn was young, hungry, and had absolutely nothing to lose. Fighting off the incredible adrenaline of fighting an old legend in front of your countrymen.

It was a recipe for disaster. And disaster happened. Which is leading to all this finger pointing. Freddie doesn't even take responsibility for his own corner. His ass was blaming f**king Buboy, lmao. Arum blames the entire corner. Manny comes out publicly and says that he felt set up and now dude won't even look his own trainer in the eye.

Rock f**king bottom.

[Bronx2245]

I would be mad too, if I were Pacquiao! Why the **** wouldn't he be mad when he sees his trainer and promoter totally cool with a ****ed up decision? Pacquiao was graceful, he was the "good cop," but Freddie, or Arum, or both, were supposed to play the role of bad cop!

[sammybee]

things fall apart