
Excellent assestment. Totally agree about Roach. Wish I had the same oppurtunity to meet him. Maybe one day. The man is a class act from what I've seen. I watched a special about female boxers a few years back. The story focused alot on Lucia Rijker, who was trained by Roach at the time. All of his fighters, lived in the same house. Among some of the more famous was James Toney. Roach truly cared for his fighters. Even showed him cooking for them (maybe 8 in all). From what the fighters were saying (especially Toney and Rijker), was that they were all family, and from what was showed, it was clearly because of Roach. At the time, he hadn't been diagnosed with parkinsons, or at least it hadn't been released to the media. Although I'll be rooting against his fighter, I wish him all the luck and support in his personal battles. God Bless Freddy.
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