Freddy Roach

Thomas «Hitman» Hearns, the first man to win titles in four divisions, tops a list of 13 people elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum. Hearns, who won five titles altogether, compiled a 155-8 amateur record and was 61-5-1 with 48 knockouts as a pro read more ...

Trainer Freddie Roach has yet to watch last Saturday’s junior welterweight bout between Juan Manuel Marquez and Likar Ramos — but he’s heard a lot about it — and none of feedback has been positive. Marquez stopped Ramos in the first round with a single punch, which didn’t appear to land that flush. Questions have been raised as to whether or not Ramos took a dive and simply arrived that night to collect an easy paycheck read more ...

Zab Judah: «When I went in against Matthysse, me and my team knew that I was going to beat him. Golden Boy thought I was going to be a stepping stone, so they sacrificed one of their pawns. Now they’re going to come back and sacrifice one of their queens. It’s check mate baby, you know it is!» read more ...

Trainer Freddie Roach, speaking to The Daily Telegraph, gave his opinion on why WBA champion David Haye is great for the heavyweight. Haye faces WBO/IBO/IBF champion Wladimir Klitschko on July 2 in Hamburg. Roach feels the Klitschko brothers are boring figthers who are not risktakers read more ...

Superstar Manny Pacquiao hits the mitts with trainer Freddie Roach at a jam-packed, standing room-only media day at the Wildcard Boxing Club in Hollywood, Wednesday in preparation for his upcoming world welterweight mega fight against read more ...

Unbeaten welterweight Jesse Vargas (14-0, 7 KOs) won an unpopular eight round unanimous decision over late sub Cristian Favela (19-31-7, 10 KOs) on Thursday night at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles. Favela was the aggressor in the fight, but came out on the short end 79-73, 78-74, 77-75 read more ...

The worlds greatest boxing trainer, Freddie Roach has found a new home in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico where he has been for the past two weeks preparing Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. for his next fight. I have found this to be a very great experience. I did not know what to expect but it was been great. The people are very nice and to my surprise they know who I am read more ...

Trainer Freddie Roach is predicting that his boxer, WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, will stop Sugar Shane Mosley on May 7 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Mosley has been down in one fight, against Vernon Forrest in 2002. The goal for Team Pacquiao is to accomplish something that no other fighter has been able to do, to stop Mosley read more ...

So many boxers and trainers have given their respective opinions about whether Antonio Margarito knew his hands were loaded when he was busted with plaster inserts in his wraps prior to his fight with "Sugar" Shane Mosley in January 2009. Manny Pacquiao said during a news conference a while back announcing this fight that Margarito had to know read more ...

In one of their final sparring sessions prior to leaving the Philippines, Freddie Roach gave WBA 140-pound champion Amir Khan the clear edge over Manny Pacquiao, the WBO welterweight champion. Roach is training both fighters for their upcoming bouts. Pacquiao moves up to junior middleweight to face Antonio Margarito for the vacant WBC 154-pound title at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas read more ...