Quote Originally Posted by milmascaras1 View Post
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you're right and he should be looking out for his fighters well being but right now he's only a trainer. i just can't stand his cherrypicking his fghters' opponents. i think he does it to make his training skills look better than what they are. not to mention the guy is a classic, annoying motor-mouth who annoys and rubs fans the wrong way.
Who's to say what his role is though? Clearly he has a lot of control over his fighters, and he is entitled to make career choices for his top guys. People rag on him for the reasons you state, but at the end of the day if he is making his fighters and himself millions of dollars and winning, I'm sure he isn't losing sleep over it. Besides that, he is an excellent trainer and people who say otherwise never substantiate it with anything whatsoever. It's only on forums and the like, amongst people who follow the sport very closely that you will actually hear any criticism of the guy, and even then it's just bickering about things he might say, basically who gives a rats. Freddie Roach has actually made a name for himself amongst casual fans, I have friends who know him or read things about him, he has also established a presence amongst MMA circles, which says a lot considering he is just a boxing trainer. I like the guy, he's obviously not stupid.