John David Jackson criticizes Freddie Roach & says winner of Mayweather-Mosley will expose Pacquiao

John David Jackson was a two-division champion in the nineties and is considered to be one of the most talented trainers in the game today and currently works with Nate Campbell, Allan Green, and Bernard Hopkins, but after he made comments last year claiming that Pacquiao didn’t fight black fighters, Pacquiao fans across the world have considered Jackson to be Pacquiao hater number one. And just recently, John David was a guest on FightFanNation radio and criticized Freddie Roach and theorized that the winner of Saturday’s fight between Mayweather and Mosley would expose Pacquiao.

JOHN DAVID JACKSON
“As far as Freddie is concerned and I like Freddie and we are friends and he might get mad at this, but I could care less though. Listen Freddie is blessed to have one guy in his career that has stood up for him and that’s Manny. Manny is making the money he should make. With Freddie’s ailments he doesn’t have a pension in boxing to fall back on, he doesn’t have a health plan so the money he is making is going to help him out for what he needs in the future and god bless him for that. People ask me all the time is Freddie a great trainer? Freddie is not a great trainer. Freddie inherited a lot of good fighters when he first came out of the game. How in the world could you be a punching bag as a fighter, getting hit numerous times, he may get mad at me, but look at the films, look at the fights. He caught a lot of punches. How could you become a great trainer and teach defense when you never had defense yourself? It makes no sense. Let me say this in my defense before it sounds like I’m bashing. I’ve talked to a lot of fighters that Freddie has trained, a lot of my friends, and they all tell me the same thing that Freddie never taught them anything as far as professional boxing was concerned. Most of these guys knew how to fight when Freddie inherited these guys. I’m not going to name names, but a lot of the good fighters he’s had already knew how to fight when Freddie got with them, he didn’t teach them from day one so his teaching was not needed.

One thing about Freddie and I’ve watched Freddie in the gym and for a man with the ailments that he has he will bust his butt and give you 110% of what he has. He will push you in the gym and I will give him credit for that. He is a very good motivator and he will push you. As for a teacher I watched him in camp with Bernard, you can’t teach a man how to fight that has been boxing for twenty something years. With a guy like that you might add a few things to his game or devise a game plan for him, but when the bell rings most cats know what they are going to do once the bell rings. Most of the stuff you showed them in the gym goes out the window because most guys have to improvise once that bell rings. So most fighters improvise once the bell rings, they adjust once the bell rings. You might teach them one hundred days straight, but when the bell rings, they might think ‘forget that crap’ and improvise. Freddie is a good guy and he will push and give you 110% of what he’s got and he will get you ready for a fight, but as far as teaching I don’t see the teaching and I’ve watched him and he’s a good guy and he might get mad and we might never speak against, but as far as teaching, no. He might show you some stuff, but its overkill. Teach the guy what they need to know, but you can’t teach me stuff you never did. How are you going to show me something you never did in the ring, it doesn’t work.

Freddie hasn’t made Pacquiao complete this guy still makes a lot of mistakes, but it’s going to take the winner of Mosley-Mayweather to expose those flaws. Everybody he is fighting is handpicked and you can’t blame the fighter for that. The promoter and the manager are making these fights for Manny and they are being smart and cashing out with this guy. I’m not blaming them and they are doing what they are supposed to do and he’s making all the money he can make in a short amount of time and they are doing the right thing for this kid and god bless them for that because every fighter wishes they had a promoter doing that for them. One thing about Freddie its kill or be killed he didn’t care and that was his saying and he’s probably given Manny the offense, the attack that he needs and that’s helped Manny a lot, but defensively he’s lacking, trust me, he gets hit a lot. Not these last few fights, but the Marquez kid and those smaller guys would tattoo him a little bit. He’s been rocked and he’s been hurt. As of lately he’s had the right style in front of him and he’s done what he supposed to do and I can’t knock Manny. It’s not his fault that these guys have signed contracts to come down to catch weights. That’s not his fault, whoever they put in front of them he’s beaten. Let’s be real. Cotto at 145, the weight limit is 147. Even Shane was talking crazy ‘I’ll fight him at 140,’ I said Shane you must be crazy, make this man meet your at 147 where you are strong and let’s see what he is made of, don’t sit there and let this guy dictate to you and say you have to come in at 141 or 142. Make him fight you at 147. He’s going to make money off you so make money off him, but make it even. These catch weight things, this guy is supposed to be pound for pound the best and the greatest then fight them at the weight you are supposed to meet them at, don’t make a catch weight. Cotto, that was his fault to lose those two pounds, 145 that was crazy, he knew that was going to kill him. Freddie was smart, Bob Arum was brilliant, they knew what they were doing and I give them credit, they knew what they were doing. I think the winner between Mayweather-Mosley will be the true test of what he has if they make it at 147, no catch weights.

Author: Brent Alderson

Source: examiner.com