I have no idea why Freddie Roach is talking so much. Maybe he is confident, maybe he is nervous or maybe he wants to be the star of the promotion. It is obvious he wants Manny to hate Floyd, I don’t believe that to be the case. I think Pacquiao is a professional fighter that is going to do his best on May 2nd but doesn’t hate anyone, but here is what Roach had to say today.
Roach told USA TODAY Sports that Pacquiao’s feelings toward Mayweather, which he says stem from the American boxer’s history of domestic violence, had upped Pacquiao’s intensity and motivation in training camp.
“Manny is really against domestic violence,” Roach said. “It is a big issue maybe in the Philippines for him and being a congressman he can control some of that stuff. That is a big plus for me that Manny does not like the guy, I think the killer instinct is going to come back a lot faster.”
“It is really hard to say these things in public, but I know (Mayweather) is a bad guy,” Roach said.
“(I see the fight as) good against evil, yes. I have even thought about bringing a couple of the metro cops from Vegas in to tell Manny how many times (Mayweather) has been arrested and how bad of a guy he is, but I decided I can’t go that far. He already doesn’t like him; I think we are OK.
“For the first time in my life with Manny Pacquiao, this is the first fighter he hasn’t liked. I can tell.”
What Roach is doing is evil, but no one will say that. A good person doesn’t try to make someone hate someone else just to win a sporting event. That is what an evil person does and Roach is showing that he is trying to manipulate Pacquiao which once again is an evil thing to do.