Manny Pacquiao could quit, says trainer Freddie Roach A two-part documentary on the Manny Pacquiao phenomenon, including interviews with Pacquiao, trainer Freddie Roach and Britain's Amir Khan, will be broadcast on BBC World Service in November This content is protected Roach (left) has been overseeing Pacquiao's training in the Philippines Manny Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach fears his fighter is set to quit boxing to concentrate on politics. Five-weight world champion Pacquiao won a seat in the Philippine Congress in May and Roach said there are signs he has fallen out of love with the sport. Pacquiao, 31, meets Antonio Margarito for the vacant WBC light-middleweight crown in Dallas on 13 November. "We are going to lose Manny Pacquiao to politics, for sure," Roach told BBC World Service. "After the first couple of days of training Manny came up to me and said 'I miss my job', and I said 'you're at your job', and he said 'no, I miss Congress'." Pacquiao, who is a national hero in the Philippines, represents the province of Sarangani and stated after being elected that he would have only one more fight. This content is protected We're fighting against a big, strong guy and we haven't had the best training camp Freddie Roach And Roach's comments will disappoint boxing fans across the globe because they suggest a super-fight with American great Floyd Mayweather will never happen. A planned fight between the pair fell through in January when Pacquiao refused Mayweather's demands for random blood and urine tests. And Roach added he was concerned by Pacquiao's preparation for the Margarito contest, saying they "haven't had the best training camp". "I'm worried about the fight a little bit," said Roach, who was talking to BBC boxing commentator Mike Costello in the Philippine city of Baguio, where Pacquiao has been sparring with, among others, Britain's WBA light-welterweight champion Amir Khan. "We're fighting against a big, strong guy who's going to be in great shape and we're a little behind schedule which is very unusual. "I'm not sure if it's the size of the sparring partners that's giving him trouble or he's just not himself yet. "He's getting better and better every day but it's coming a lot slower than usual. "Usually Manny has his first sparring session and could fight 12 rounds the next day, I can't say that at this point in the camp. "But we do have two hard weeks of sparring coming up before we start tapering off and slowing down and saving it for the fight." As well as boxing and politics, Pacquiao has appeared in feature films, television shows and released a number of albums. Mexico's Margarito, a former welterweight world champion, has won 38 of his 45 fights and has fought some of the biggest names of the era. However, he was banned after illegal hand wraps were found in his gloves before a bout against Shane Mosley last January and has fought only once since then.
Its more likely something would be wrong if Roach didnt say something like this. He always does this the month or so before a fight.
he's just getting the excuses ready incase manny loses remember 'No Rehydration' clause this time his opponent will be coming into the ring strong not on wobbly legs before the ring walk
I'd like to hear Roach on the Khan/Maidana fight. I haven't heard one thing from him on it and he didn't come to either press conference.
The reason is that he has to be careful how much time he gives and how much time he's seen giving to Khan. He's getting paid a huge sum of money, significantly more than he gets from Khan, and Pac is his number one cash machine. Due to this he has to keep his focus on Pac/Marg until 14th of Nov. If you were Pac and you want to go over your training or you're camp plans but you can't because your trainer is in New York for x days doing a press tour you'd ask yourself what was going on. So wheras he is training Khan at the same time, it has to happen around Pac. On topic: Roach isn't preparing excuses incase Pac loses. Whenever he has problems with Pac or his training, he confronts him to a point about it, but after that he has a sulk and usually goes to the media and tells them something like he has to the bbc, as a means of whinging at pac, and also in the hope that if its in the media, Pac will take more notice
At first I got scared. Then I remembered that Roach is always talking like this. He likes to play the mind games.
