By Dallan o’ Donnell: Pound for pound superstar Manny Pacquaio has fallen out of love with boxing. This is according to his trainer Freddie Roach, who has admitted that Manny wants to quit boxing for politics. Roach added “We are going to lose Pacquaio to politics for sure”. During Pacquaio’s training camp in the Philippines Roach told the BBC that Pacquaio came up to him and said “I miss my job” to which roach replied “Your at your job”, “No, i miss congress” Pacquaio answered. Are we about to see the end of Manny Pacquaio’s legendary career or is this the beginning of Roach’s mind games?
We here and read the reports that Manny is looking sluggish in training but we hear somewhere else that he is looking good in sparring. Who do we believe? Maybe Manny was disinterested with boxing at the beginning of training but this is Manny Pacquaio, I expect nothing but professionalism from him and I believe he has his head screwed on and is concentrating on Antonio Margarito but if he does over look Margarito he will be punished for doing so. I’m sure Margarito is gaining confidence in reading Roach’s claims but is that the whole point to his claims? Saying Pacquaio is out of love with boxing, that he is over looking Margarito in an attempt to have Margarito come forward and open up to subsequently be hit by a blindingly fast Manny Pacquaio?
We cannot keep speculating, the bout itself is not too far way and the HBO series 24/7 returns Saturday so we can finally have a glimpse into both camps and see how both fighters are training. I have already stated in a previous article that the bout will only last 8 rounds and a Pacquaio victory is most likely, I will not change my view, despite Roach’s claims.
Source: boxingnews24.com
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