Freddie Roach: "Both Pacquiao-Marquez fights could have gone either way"

:yep

At the press con, even though it was street clothes, Money didn't look THAT much bigger.

Probably because he isn't. :good

 

Everybody says that...Mosley's last year was 2006, remember? :yep

I could have sworn I read in Sports Illustrated that Freddie was the one guiding Pac to a pair of swansong paydays. Of course, that's not set in stone just because it was printed in SI...and if you say you have reason to believe it's coming from Pac, I'll take you at your word.

 

I'm sure if I applied myself I could dig it up, but don't feel like making the effort...anybody recall what Nacho has said on public record, if anything, about the fights?

 

I get that mentality, and I don't think Pac should go the Yory Boy Campas rout, but damn he's only a couple years removed from prime if not still in it...at least let his peak years run out before hanging them up, even if there are no obvious big name challenges at the top level of the sport. Some currently-obscure prospect will shoot up the rankings quick enough, or someone who's on the verge right now will string together a few high profile wins. That's how this sport works, you can go from nobody to somebody, somebody to rising star, and rising star to marquee name in the span of a year. And even if nobody does pop up on the radar that can bring the PPV numbers, so what? Give the fans a few free TV spectacles - even if they are uncompetitive clinics against the best available who happen to be not even close.

It would seem Pac's campaign ambitions don't have an expiration date, he'll be beloved by his countrymen even posthumously. But if he wants to cash in on his peak popularity now and seize the ballots, or if he's got some social agendas that he's really chomping at the bit to get in office and push through, I guess that's his prerogative. Damn shame though. Be a huge waste of talent if he retires before, say 2012 IMO.