Manny Pacquiao beginning to lose interest in boxing

"We are going to lose Manny Pacquiao to politics, for sure," Roach told BBC World Service.

"After the first couple of days of training Manny came up to me and said 'I miss my job', and I said 'you're at your job', and he said 'no, I miss Congress'.

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And Roach added he was concerned by Pacquiao's preparation for the Margarito contest, saying they "haven't had the best training camp".

"I'm worried about the fight a little bit," said Roach, who was talking to BBC boxing commentator Mike Costello in the Philippine city of Baguio, where Pacquiao has been sparring with, among others, Britain's WBA light-welterweight champion Amir Khan.

"We're fighting against a big, strong guy who's going to be in great shape and we're a little behind schedule which is very unusual.

"I'm not sure if it's the size of the sparring partners that's giving him trouble or he's just not himself yet.

"He's getting better and better every day but it's coming a lot slower than usual.

"Usually Manny has his first sparring session and could fight 12 rounds the next day, I can't say that at this point in the camp.

"But we do have two hard weeks of sparring coming up before we start tapering off and slowing down and saving it for the fight."

dont worry havent they heard? Margarito is throwing the fight

not surprised have heard Pac has had a lazy camp

If Manny loses in November do you think it might re-ignite his passion for boxing ?

Stop. We heard all this bullshit for the Cotto fight. Manny will be ready. Dont read into this.

I think hes losing intrest, but it doesnt mean he still wont be the Manny we see on fight night. Shit Ray Robinson hated fighting and he was just in it ofr the money, he said it himself. These guys still show up as the best fighters in the world.

an unintrested manny is way better than a shot Margarito.

SlickMoneyXL wrote:

Stop. We heard all this bullshit for the Cotto fight. Manny will be ready. Dont read into this.

+1

Arum knows how to sell a fight

This is different, there has been alot of rumors that Manny's been looking poor in training, even Freddie has admitted it.

Yo I'm worried about this.

You should be, Manny is on a collision course with a Tijuana Tornado.

Remind me to come back and laugh when Manny clownstomps this shot chump

all a bunch of bullshit

It's not hype, why would Freddie lie about Manny being more interested in politics at the moment ?

Please... Manny is going to whip Margarito good. Even if Manny doesn't look great in training camp, I guarantee it is still light years better than Margarito.

I still refuse to put any money in the pocket of Margarito, and will not be ordering this fight. It is a complete insult to the sport of boxing and the fighters who have been permanently injured because of cheaters like this guy. The fact he is allowed to even fight again, let alone get a title shot is completely disgusting in my opinion.

Just my opinion, but I don't think Margarito should be allowed to fight and I will be damned if I pay to watch him. This is coming from somebody who enjoyed watching him fight before as well.