Franchis Ochoa writes that amid the “distraction” caused by WBC fee issue, Freddie Roach is confident Manny Pacquiao will deliver.
Excerpt:
MANILA, Philippines—Amid the “distraction” wrought by the issue of unpaid sanction fees, confidence within Team Pacquiao continues to soar with the belief that the Dec. 6 “Dream Match” at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas won’t end up being a nightmare.
For Manny Pacquiao, that is.
As far as Freddie Roach is concerned, Oscar De La Hoya is going to wake up bewildered after Pacquiao puts him to sleep somewhere in the first nine rounds of the year’s most anticipated fight.
“I’m so confident in Pacquiao in this fight,” Roach told FoxSports.com’s Mark Kriegel during an exclusive video interview. “We’re going to knock (De La Hoya) out nine rounds.”
What is this issue distracting Pacquiao all about?
Philboxing.com’s
Nathanielz writes:
The fundamental procedure is for a promoter to deduct the sanction fee from the boxers’ purses and make the payment to the sanctioning body concerned. If there was non-payment or shortfall then Pacquiao should not be the one to be castigated by the WBC. It should be the promoter because that’s his job although the sanction fee is levied on the fighter.
WBC president Jose Sulaiman after an initial, certainly untimely and emotional outburst against Pacquiao, quickly moderated his tone when we called him at his hotel suite in Chengdu , China . Regrettably however, the damage had already been done to our national treasure as well as the image of the Philippines and to undo the wrong will take some doing.
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Hans Solo
Jose Suleiman has only one intention and that is to get even with Pacquiao. He could have handle this matter in a more professional way but he choose to embarrased Manny, why? I think because he was totally against this fight from the very beginning and Manny didn’t listen to him. If there is one thing wrong with boxing today, an embarrasment, it is Jose Suleiman and the WBC. What a shame!
acero
What this senile septuagerian is trying to do is to accomplish what no Mehicano boxer has done: to knock out Pacman in whatever way possible, foul or not. Ronnie Nathanielz is on the dot in questioning the motive of this “Mexican’t” when he made his outburst against Manny. After all, it is on the critical period of Manny’s preparations for his forthcoming fight with DLH.
BTW, what is he, at 77 years old, still doing in WBC after all these years? He should just tend to his medical supply company and probably, from time to time, administer some medicine to his dysfunctional brain. Can the WBC Board not find among themselves a younger and perhaps more rational person to take over the helm of their organization? Well, by way of reading their badly prepared press statement in the aftermath of their president’s booboo, I can only deduce that the WBC Board is composed of a bunch of idiots - they can’t even compose a coherent paragraph!
ninetails
Sulaiman should have approached the promoter first before whinning. Of course Manny’s too busy preparing for the fight. What a cry baby.
Nicz
Yes!!!! Pacman just like other champions in the past should dump that WBC belt.
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