Roach confident Pacquiao will retain title
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 10 May 2012
Admitting Timothy Bradley is a young, well-trained opponent, Manny Pacquiao?s chief trainer Freddie Roach, nonetheless, predicted the World Boxing Organization welterweight belt-owner will keep his 147-pound division crown.
?Manny is fighting a young, aggressive fighter in Bradley comes June 9 in Las Vegas, but his experience and his determination to win impressively than in his fight (against Juan Manuel Marquez) will carry him through,? Roach told this writer in an overseas telephone conversation yesterday from Los Angeles.
?Bradley has been proclaiming himself the best-conditioned fighter in the world. I have been receiving reports he?s been working out daily,? Roach said.
?I also heard he weighs 165 pounds nowadays with no body fat or very little of it,? he said. ?Will he make the weight? Or, if he does, will he be as strong as Manny, who I?m sure will be much, much lighter than he is comes fight time??
?Bradley?s style of fighting fits Manny very well,? Roach noted ?He fights like Hatton and happened to Hatton when he fought Manny. He went down for good just in the second round.?
Roach believes Pacquiao will do the same to Bradley, who, he said, will not last six rounds in the coming showdown to be held Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
Bradley the world junior-welterweight champion though has a stronger chin than the British warrior.
?Manny is more motivated now to win impressively as in his lackluster performance against (Juan Manuel) Marquez.,? Roach said. ?He wants to erase the stigma of that performance and reclaim his reputation as the world?s pound-for-pound king and that would be a bad news for Bradley.?
Bradley will be fighting at 147-pound class for the first time since winning via point decision over Luis Abregu in 2010.
Although Bradley, Roach observed, is a tough fighter, he doesn?t have much power, much footwork and, certainly, nogt shifty as compared to Pacquiao.
?Quitting though is not in Bradley?s vocabulary,? Roach added. ?He always comes to his opponent head first that?s why he?s never been cut. But we?re preparing for him, elbow, head and all.?
Bradley?s fight till the end, but we like that. That?ll force Manny to knock him out. It will be an all-action fight, I tell you,? Roach said.
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