Roach rejected Foreman as Pac next opponent

Foreman's team met with Arum and Team Pac today and team pac determined that Foreman was too tall and bailed on the fight.

When I read an article that says Floyd's team refuses Hatton for some physical advantage, your point will be valid.

Until then, you're a moron. Go back to Pacland, fruitcup.

 

Not when you break the fight down stylistically. You have a guy thats almost 6 feet tall that moves around alot and likes to box from the outside who has fought his entire career at 153+ fighting a guy thats what 5'6 1/2 and likes to brawl. Manny has also shown his most vulnerabilities against a guy who can box and keep a fight at range, and against guys who were closer to his weight and height.
So if you factor all that in you have an opponent that could potentially spell disaster for Manny especially since hes unbeaten and just fought a idle, but strong ex champion who probably came into their fight much heavier than 154 pounds in Daniel Santos. Too many unknowns about Foreman to risk a loss.
Foreman is not like ODLH, he moves a lot more and fights more at range cautiously.

 

Bradly or Berto/Mosley winner

 

Floyd will refuse and you will breath a sigh of relief. **** what Roach or anyone else but Pac says on HIS opponents. It's not coming from him.

 

atsch Are you kidding? Of course Roach has a say in who he fights, he knows his fighter inside and out and knows Foremans size and movement could potentially spell disaster for Manny.

 

Okay, so then if he doesn't fight malignaggi?

He is ducking one of them, right?

It's stupid to say because he doesn't want to move up in weight again for a paper title, that he is ducking a kid with 8 knock outs and 2 title fights that are SDs, that he is ducking.

 

this is all a ploy to get foreman to agree to a 150 catch weight

 

he has "a" say
it ultimately comes down to what Manny wants...after a point, the fighter calls the shots.....

 

Ah gotcha I mistook what you said.

I won't argue that Foreman doesn't bring some height issues, also I don't know his reach. They would be factors hypothetically, but still I won't lend any credence to the idea that it will be a struggle. I just don't see it.

 

Ducking is ducking no matter what spin you want to put on it.

Bottom line is they could have said this weeks ago when Foreman's name started to be thrown around, no one would have seen that as ducking, but to say that a deal is almost done and if the fight with Floyd doesnt happen that fight is a go, only to now say, once the fight with Floyd is off that they arent going to fight him sounds a shitload like ducking...

HOWEVER If they were to fight Foreman he would look like a runway model being that they would force him to come in at like 148:rofl

 

I rarely laugh out loud, but you got me with this one. :yep

 

:nono

148 weigh-in
149 fight night or no fight:yep

 

I'm purposely being a bit of a dink and jumping to conclusions since that is the trend of the day here apparently.

The article is from Foreman's manager's point of view, but certainly sounds like Roach/Pac think that Foreman's size advantage is too big of a challenge and are thus turning down the fight. That sounds like a duck to me, but yea I'll wait for a bit to see how things unfold before continuing my e-assault on Pac.

 

Which is obviously worse than forcing Malignaggi to move up a division to fight PBF, right??

 

Did not Pac himself said in the Cotto post fight interview that 147 is the highest he'll go and that 154 is way too big for him?

I want to see Pac-JMM III at 140.

Before, people were asking for Pac-Cotto and Floyd-Shane and the winners fight off. So Pac seem to have done his share... and Duckyfloyd could've gone for Shane right then after Marquez.