Despite being a retired boxer, Floyd Mayweather Jr. still has a lot to say and he recently commented on how trainer Freddie Roach is overrated in many ways.
The undefeated boxer is referring to how Roach handled his fighter, Miguel Cotto against Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, in which the Puerto Rican lost via unanimous decision.
According to Mayweather, Roach did a poor job on motivating his fighter and instead of keeping it real, he chose to cuddle Cotto which might be the reason for his lack of aggressiveness.
"If your coach knows you're losing in the fourth round, if that was the case, that's when a trainer needs to step up and say, 'You know what? Pick up the f-----g pace. You losing.' Or, 'F--k it! Go out like a soldier! Go for the knockout.' If you get caught, that's part of the game," Mayweather told Keith Idec of BoxingScene.com. "But s--t, the name of the game is kill or be killed. You gotta sacrifice something to get something."
He's not done, he also said that people should stop seeing Roach as a legendary trainer because he has done little to nothing to the likes of Manny Pacquiao and Cotto, who were already elite by the time he got his hands on both fighters.
"I hear people talking about Freddie Roach is a legendary trainer, but I think Cotto was fighting the same way before he got with Freddie Roach," he said. "I think Pacquiao was fighting the same before he got with Freddie. Both guys were already world champions before they got to Freddie Roach."
"But when Pacquiao lost to Marquez and he lost to me, they still keep talking about how legendary the coach is. When are y'all going to get on the coach's ass and say, 'You know what? This coach done a f----d up job," Mayweather insisting Roach is overrated.
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