Roach is a very good trainer, and he's only showing symptoms of Parkinsons Having said that, any trainers opinion on their own guys is hardly objective. Linares is so much more talented than Rios, but he's really vulnerable and Rios is anything but, as well as a fair bit bigger. I'd expect it could go either way with Rios taking a beating unless/until Linares gets hurt. Maybe they are talking about making the fight assuming Rios loses to Manny, would make sense.