Freddie Roach
Freddie Roach
Frederick Steven "Freddie" Roachis an American boxing trainer and former boxer. He is the enduring boxing coach of the eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao, five-time and four-division World Champion Miguel Cotto, former WBC Middleweight Champion Julio César Chávez, Jr., former UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre, as well as top prospects Jose Benavidez, Peter Quillin, and Vanes Martirosyan. Roach was the trainer of former two-time world champion and notable women's champion Lucia Rijker. He has also trained former junior welterweight champion...
ProfessionBoxer
Date of Birth5 March 1960
CityDedham, MA
Keep working that body and it's going to pay off. No single punches. He can't handle combinations.
He (Williams) does have pretty good power, ... I expect Williams to be at his best because this is the biggest fight in the world for him.
He used his jab very effectively and so forth. We didn't expect him to do as well as he did. And he backed Manny up when he put Manny on the ropes where he didn't need to be.
He used his jab very effectively and so forth.
He fights with his heart and emotion. People say you should change him and settle him down. But this is what makes him exciting and you can't take it away from him.
He looked very good. The jab was really a key punch and it set everything up for him.
After this fight we'll take a week off and then we'll be straight back into Morales mode,
In the last fight, the game plan went out the window,
It means the most when your team always supports you.
I know when I first started working with Manny that he was something special. But eight world titles? No one could have expected that.
Mayweather likes to say he is better than Sugar Ray Robinson, but I think it is more important for him to keep the zero on his record than it is to fight Manny. We hope the opportunity comes for a fight with Mayweather, but Manny is going to continue to fight, even if it means moving up in weight to go after nine titles.
And Manny was supposed to have a big suite, but Murad took the big suite for himself and put Manny in a one-bedroom suite that Manny had to share with eight other people. And he didn't get his tickets (for family and friends) for the fight.