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Everytime you favor a fighter to win against Pac, Pac wins.

That's the reason I voted for Pac.
That is quite true. Manny has been a thorn in my side for quite some time. But lest we forget, I was actually willing him on against the ultimate devil incarnate....Oscar DelaHoya. On the whole though and in the superfights I have been pretty much in the opposing corner. I've got to be right one day. I don't know when that day might be, but surely that day will come. That's how I look at it anyway.
I am going with Pac in this one. I used to think Roach was full of shit but everything he says something it comes to be. In the 1st JMM fight in round 5-7 he begs Pac not to let JMM take over the fight. Pac goes on to lose those rounds. In 2nd JMM fight you could read between the lines in Roach's remarks (lacking confidence) that he does not believe Pac won. It's not what you say but how you say it.

Roach also predicts easy wins vs ODLH (says he can no longer pull the trigger) and Hatton (points out poor defense). Now he says Pac needs to train in Mexico and take this fight more serious:

Hmmmmm can be interpreted 2 ways 1) Motivates Pac, 2) Pac not serious. I'll take option 1, he Knows Cotto is a shot fighter after being Plastered by Margarito. His job is to not to allow Pac to accept that fact.


It is Roach's demeanor that further convinces me that JMM won both fights. Roach calls them as he sees them .......

Except towards Pac, he's gotta protect his man... Protect his "Money"
Roach doesn't seem so sure of a Manny victory this time around, based on all of his comments from the beginning. I mean, he has said Manny will win, but if you read between the lines, Roach is giving Cotto much more respect than he did Hatton and de la Hoya.