ROACH STICKS TO ?ONE ROUND? PLAN
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 20 Nov 2014
MACAU, China ? The teasing continues.
Maybe trainer Freddie Roach really wants to spite Manny Pacquiao?s challenger Chris Algieri some more.
Three days after setting foot here on Wednesday along with Team Pacquiao, the 54-year-old Hall of Fame trainer was still in a teasing mood,
Roach bared that he and members of his training staff are in the process of perfecting a plan on how the defending World Boxing Organization welterweight belt-holder can beat the undefeated title-pretender with a first round knockout.
?Yeah, my prediction for a first round knockout stands,? Roach told this writer in a chance encounter at the media center where he was to attend a meeting with the organizers of the 12-round title showdown Sunday at the Cotai Arena inside the sprawling Venetian Resort Hotel.
?We have been doing nothing since arriving here, but draw a game plan towards attaining that target,? Roach disclosed, adding behind doing the mitts daily since Tuesday, are plans and strategies that will lure the challenger into abandoning his planned gun-and-gun tactics.
Roach said the Sarangani Congressman knew what to do and has, in fact, convinced that he can, indeed, stop the enemy right in the opening round.
?As I have been saying, we already have already drawn plans that will answer everything that Algieri is capable of throwing at us,? Roach said. ?We?ve actually started it at the camp in General Santos City and we are refining them here.?
?We know he possesses a quick pair of legs to run, but as I also said, he can?t hide,? he added. ?He has to fight to win and that?s what we have been working out, for him to decide to fight.?
?And when he does, it?ll all be easy for us. Manny will starch him with peppery combinations, he wouldn?t know where they?re coming from,? he said.
"Manny himself told me, 'One round,' " Roach said. "He's never done that, but that's what he said: 'One round.' "
For the last five years since knocking out Miguel Cotto cold in 12 rounds, Pacquiao has not stopped the next opponents he faced since then.
The Filipino ring hero though had convincingly beaten Joshua Clottey, Antonio Margarito, and Shane Mosley in his next time out from 2010 to 2011 before Timothy Bradley cut short his 15-bout victory parade in 2012 and Marquez dealing him his first KO loss since 1999.
?It?s about time really that Manny wins via knockout this time,? Roach said.
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