Roach, nagfoyo
NICK GIONGCOFREDDIE ROACH is at a loss as to who will be next in line for Manny Pacquiao. So does Mike Koncz, the Canadian adviser of the Filipino southpaw.
"We still don’t have a fight right now," Roach told the Bulletin yesterday from the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California.
Roach prefers to see Pacquiao face off with Marco Antonio Barrera before a meeting with the resurgent Juan Manuel Marquez, the reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) super-featherweight titlist from Mexico, is made.
"That’s a fight many people would like to see," said Roach, who also mentions Joan Guzman of the Dominican Republic and Edwin Valero of Venezuela as other candidates.
"That’s not even solid," said Koncz from Los Angeles in relation to reports that a fight featuring Pacquiao and the Brooklyn-based Guzman for October 6 in Vancouver is almost a done deal.
Koncz said Barrera, who still has one more fight left under his contract with Golden Boy Promotions, remains in the running.
Koncz said Pacquiao, who is expected to bring his wife and kids to Orlando, Florida, for some rest and recreation in the next few days before flying to New York, should be able to know what’s on the horizon after he meets with Top Rank chief Bob Arum.
"Everything will be cleared when Manny meets with Arum in New York," said Koncz.
Roach said Arum was trying to reach him "last night (Wednesday)" but could not tell precisely what Arum was going to say to him.
"Somebody told me that Bob would like to get my opinion regarding Manny’s next fight," said Roach, who is busy working with Manny’s younger brother Bobby, who meets Humberto Soto of Mexico on June 9 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
"But I won’t talk to him especially after he called me an idiot and other names," said Roach, whose animosity towards the Harvard-educated Arum only got worse when the Top Rank chairman handed over a check amounting to $ 200,000 to his Australian strength coach Justin Fortune as trainer’s fee for Pacquiao’s April 14 victory over Jorge Solis.
Roach has gone to court to get his share and Fortune has left the Wild Card to build his own stable of fighters.
Roach said he would like to work with Pacquiao for six weeks in Los Angeles before a scheduled fight.
"We still don’t have a fight right now," Roach told the Bulletin yesterday from the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California.
Roach prefers to see Pacquiao face off with Marco Antonio Barrera before a meeting with the resurgent Juan Manuel Marquez, the reigning World Boxing Council (WBC) super-featherweight titlist from Mexico, is made.
"That’s a fight many people would like to see," said Roach, who also mentions Joan Guzman of the Dominican Republic and Edwin Valero of Venezuela as other candidates.
"That’s not even solid," said Koncz from Los Angeles in relation to reports that a fight featuring Pacquiao and the Brooklyn-based Guzman for October 6 in Vancouver is almost a done deal.
Koncz said Barrera, who still has one more fight left under his contract with Golden Boy Promotions, remains in the running.
Koncz said Pacquiao, who is expected to bring his wife and kids to Orlando, Florida, for some rest and recreation in the next few days before flying to New York, should be able to know what’s on the horizon after he meets with Top Rank chief Bob Arum.
"Everything will be cleared when Manny meets with Arum in New York," said Koncz.
Roach said Arum was trying to reach him "last night (Wednesday)" but could not tell precisely what Arum was going to say to him.
"Somebody told me that Bob would like to get my opinion regarding Manny’s next fight," said Roach, who is busy working with Manny’s younger brother Bobby, who meets Humberto Soto of Mexico on June 9 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
"But I won’t talk to him especially after he called me an idiot and other names," said Roach, whose animosity towards the Harvard-educated Arum only got worse when the Top Rank chairman handed over a check amounting to $ 200,000 to his Australian strength coach Justin Fortune as trainer’s fee for Pacquiao’s April 14 victory over Jorge Solis.
Roach has gone to court to get his share and Fortune has left the Wild Card to build his own stable of fighters.
Roach said he would like to work with Pacquiao for six weeks in Los Angeles before a scheduled fight.
posted by cybertimes at Saturday, June 02, 2007
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