FR: You know, 5 bucks a day is fair! My accountants disagree with me and want me to charge more, but I say the 5 is fair. MR: What is the most important thing about the gym that you want to keep consistent even after you retire? Stay home and watch TV or something?
But I might have a little Irish in me somewhere. You know who made me Irish? It was the promoters. So that was their fault to be honest with you laughs. FR: Not so much. I do dream about training the perfect fighter. And I know that there are only a special few who can be that. But you know, I would love the perfect heavyweight. So I do dream about that, yes. MR: Tell me about the demise of the Heavyweight division.
How has that effected the sport? FR: Guys like Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, James Tony, they are great fighters but they never get the press that the heavyweight fighters get and the thing is they deserve it. I think they are actually fundamentally better fighters. Heavyweights are more limited but they hit a lot harder.
I trained Wladimir Klitschko for four fights and I had a great time with him. But in America it seems that more of the big guys that are athletic they go into football, basketball… you know team sports are much easier.
When you get tired in a team sport they take you out, you sit on the bench and you get some oxygen. You better fucking do something. Because this guy is trying to kill you. MR: What is the perfect fighter for you? If you could create the perfect fighter, what would that be to you? FR: He has to understand ring generalship, which is not taught anymore.
He would have to understand body shots, which is not done anymore. Everyone is headhunting all night long now. The knockouts come from the headshots but in the old days it was set up by the body shots. And then ring generalship. There are no teachers out there anymore that teach that part about boxing. My perfect fighter does not make mistakes.
He throws beautiful combinations. He is the perfect fighter and he never loses. Do you take that personally when a fighter leaves you to go to another guy? Sometimes they think the grass is a little bit greener on the other side. Pacquiao, 40, is back on Saturday and will try something different again when he defends the belt he won from Matthysse against Adrien Broner in the main event of a Showtime pay-per-view card at the MGM Grand Garden.
Fernandez has been doing many of the actions of the lead trainer in camp and may be the one in the ring on Saturday delivering instructions. Ramos says Pacquiao is averse to titles and simply wants everyone to pitch in as a team to help. I get Manny ready. In , he thought retirement was the wisest course Pacquiao could take. And you know what? Pacquiao is punching harder than he has in years, according to Roach.
He attributes that to the fact that for the first time in a long while, Pacquiao has put boxing first and his political career in the background. He is optimistic that not only will Pacquiao perform against Broner, but that he can continue to keep fighting at a high level, if he chooses to do so.
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Find out how many millions he's earning now. Think back to where you were on April 29, Do you remember the day? The same day they exchanged their wedding vows […]. Once Roach was convinced that Khan could fight, he had to change him, just like Futch had done with Roach all those years ago in Las Vegas. The defeat was not the first time that Khan had been over or wobbled, and the boxer left behind a chorus of doubters when he flew out for emergency salvation at Roach's outpost.
That is a fact of life," said Roach. We started to work on defence from the first day and I also told him that he got knocked out because he was looking for a knockout. I want him to box. Roach also stopped Khan from using weights on his upper body and slowly the bulky muscles across the boxer's neck and shoulders started to fade.
It was all part of a simple plan to give Khan back the speed that had slowly been lost to bulk since he first became an attraction as a year-old boy in the Olympic final in Athens. He's got the speed back and I think that the mental aspect is now stronger than ever.
I also think that his chin will be better at pounds [the light-welterweight limit]. At pounds [the lightweight limit] he drained himself a little bit," Roach claims. Tonight, Roach will have to be at his calming and soothing best to keep Khan under control in a fight that everybody in the British boxing business knows that Khan must not lose by stoppage.
Kotelnik, himself a losing Olympic finalist from the Sydney Games, is not a devastating puncher, but he claims to have never been off his feet as a pro, and his two defeats were controversial and were both to world champions. I don't see it happening that way, Amir will use his speed and I want him to go for points. However, if Kotelnik is simply too tough and slick, an expert at surviving and nicking a fight without dominating, a Khan loss on points would not be a disaster. I will get another world champion and then later this year he can make his American debut," Roach says.
At midnight tonight all will be clear and tomorrow Roach will get back on a plane to Los Angeles to take up his regular position in the corner at his glorious gym of misfits and heroes. And I believe Khan will be joining him in a few weeks to start preparing for the American fight.
I'm in the gym six days a week and 12 hours a day. On Sunday I like a day off. I like to go to the movies. I don't care what I watch — serious films, funny films or kids' films.
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