Manny Pacquiao Fight News: Freddie Roach Dismisses Idea of Canelo Alvarez Fight, Still Wants Terence Crawford next for Pacquiao
On Saturday, April 9th, eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao fought his 66th and final professional boxing fight: a rubber match against former WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley.
"Pacman" was able to secure a unanimous decision victory with all three judges giving him a tally of 116-110, and officially knocking down Bradley twice in the process.
After the said bout, Pacquiao announced his plans to finally walk away from the sport of boxing after 20 years of active competition, mainly to give way to him being a family man and full-time politician. Currently, he is also running for Senator at the May 9th Philippine elections.
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Yet, despite his declaration, a few of his close confidantes believe that Pacquiao's career is not yet over. Top Rank chief Bob Arum, who promotes all of the Filipino boxing icon's fights, says he thinks Pacquiao would make a return if the need for a big day should come.
His own trainer Freddie Roach has always been skeptical, and in a recent report by Boxingscene, the famed boxing coach laid out the scenarios of what he foresees would be how Pacquiao's immediate future would be.
For their part, some of Pacquiao's now former contemporaries have shown interest in a possible fight in the future, one of those men being current WBC middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez.
Roach, however, dismissed the said idea. "Canelo is a big guy," Roach said. "The thing is, I'm sure that if we fought a guy like that, we'd have to put a cap on how much weight he can gain after the weigh-in."
Instead, the 55-year old long-time trainer presented an option that was already brought forward to them in the past.
"My favorite is Terence Crawford, though," he continued. "Manny's best fighting weight is 140-pounds, and I think that's a great fight for us."
Pacquiao himself said that he is 50-50 about retirement, adding he may come back if being on the sidelines does not sit well with him.
