Freddie Roach Interview

April 22, 2007 · Filed under: Uncategorized · 271 views  

FREDDIE ROACH: Just his power is really good. He has an excellent right hand, but again, he just doesn’t have really the confidence in the right hand that he does in the left, but we’re working on that and he’s getting better every day. And I think it will be a factor in the fight.

JIM JENKINS, SACRAMENTO NEWSPAPER : I wanted to ask you kind of as a follow-up to Ron, what’s your — your style of training Oscar, is it, would you say now that you’ve been with him a while, dramatically different from what — what you’ve been used to before? Is there that much change in the camp?

FREDDIE ROACH: Well, I don’t really know he’s been doing before because I never trained with him and so forth, and I have a completely different style of course, and you know, that Floyd does.

I’m much more of an offensive minded and I think that’s what it’s going to take to win this fight is a more offensive fighter and more physical fighter.

JIM JENKINS: And one other thing, in your — in your career, how would you — two fighters looking at their styles and so forth, is there another fight in your background that you would say would be very similar to this match up?

FREDDIE ROACH: It’s hard to say because this is like maybe once in a decade type match up. This is — I think it will be the biggest fight of all time. Really, I don’t really have any to compare to at this point.

TRAE THOMPSON: Yes, Freddie, just to go down memory lane a little bit, when you were around Eddie Futch, what did you learn from him about preparing fighters for big fights like this?

FREDDIE ROACH: You know, he taught me a lot about boxing. I think my success is due to him and, you know, he’s a great teacher and so forth, and to me, you can’t change them but you can help the guy just improving on his weak points.

And you know, the good points you really don’t have to work on because they’re already there, and just to get inside of his head and let him be 100 percent and I think we’ll be, we’re there already.

He knows how to handle every step of the way and, you know, just he taught me a lot because if you get excited around the fighter, it gets him excited and so forth. So Eddie taught me some great lessons during my term with him, but you know, I thank Eddie Futch for my success.

EDDIE GOLDMAN, SECOND OUT (ph) RADIO: OK. As you know, in this fight, Floyd is the favorite. The last time I heard, the odds is around two to one. Do you think those are accurate and if you do, what do you think Oscar has particularly to work on to win this fight?

FREDDIE ROACH: Well, I think, you know, doing this fight, we have to deal with the speed of course because, you know, he is very, very quick and he uses his speed very well. And we just have to set things up and take advantage of his mistakes that he does make, because nobody is perfect out there and he does make mistakes.

We just have to take advantage of those mistakes at the right time. We’re working on it and we’re working on that every day, and you know, but his speed is his biggest asset by far. I mean, you know, speed will take you a long way.

EDDIE GOLDMAN: What do you think the size difference is going to mean in this fight, if anything?

FREDDIE ROACH: Well, I think it will come into play because that’s why we want to be a little more physical in this fight and, you know, fight inside when we can catch this guy on the rope, so we can catch him.

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