Manny wants to punish Floyd for hitting women
It sounds like Manny Pacquiao wants to give Floyd Mayweather Jr. a taste of the brutal beatings Mayweather has been accused of handing out to multiple women.
Pacquiao’s trainer, Freddie Roach, called their May 2 WBC welter-weight title fight “good against evil” and admits his fighter’s intense dislike of the undefeated Mayweather stems from Mayweather’s long, welldocumented history of domestic violence.
“For the first time in my life with Manny Pacquiao, this is the first fighter he hasn’t liked; and I can tell,’’ Roach told USA Today Sports. “I know Manny Pacquiao doesn’t like this guy, and I think those are the reasons why.’’
Mayweather has been essentially perfect in the ring: 470 with 26 knockouts. But outside the ring, he has been involved in seven instances of alleged physical assault— on five different women — that ended in an arrest or the issue of a citation, according to the newspaper. In 2012, Mayweather spent two months in a Nevada detention facility for a domestic attack on Josie Harris, the mother of three of his four kids, that was witnessed by two of his sons.
“Manny is really against domestic violence,” Roach said. “It’s a big issue maybe in the Philippines for him, and being a congressman, he can control some of that stuff. I’ve even thought about bringing a couple of the metro cops from Vegas in to tell Manny how many times he’d been arrested and how bad a guy he is. But I decided I can’t go that far. He already doesn’t like him; I think we’re OK.
“That is a big plus for me that Manny does not like the guy, I think the killer instinct is going to come back a lot faster.”
Also backing up Roach’s assertion Pacquiao truly detests Mayweather? In 2010, Mayweather went on a racist rant, posted on the Internet, in which he called Pacquiao “that little yellow chump” and vowed to get the rival fighter to “make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.” He also insinuated Pacquiao had used PEDs. Pacquiao sued, and the case was settled out of court.
In less than four weeks, they get to settle it in the ring.
“It is really hard to say these things in public, but I know [ Mayweather] is a bad guy,” said Roach, whowas influenced by seeing his father, now deceased, hit his mother. “[ I see the fight as] good against evil, yes.’’