EXCLUSIVE Manny Pacquiao made Freddie Roach go to Macau to help Zou Shiming

ALTHOUGH Manny Pacquiaoย is already in Los Angeles at the Wild Card gym preparing for his massive unification battle with Floyd Mayweatherย on May 2, the Filipinoโ€™s trainer is currently in Macau to help another of his boxers, Zou Shiming attempt to win a world title. In fact Roach is out in China under Manny Pacquiaoโ€™s orders.

โ€œI was home and [Manny] called me and told me in the Philippines itโ€™s a little bit crazy, thereโ€™s too many people, I canโ€™t train,โ€ Freddie related. โ€œSo I said come early to America and he said okay. That was on Friday or Saturday and he was coming in on Sunday and I told him Iโ€™ll see you Sunday or Monday at the gym and he says, โ€˜No, no, you have to go to Shimingโ€™s fight.โ€™ I said no I have Marvin [Somodio] covering it, heโ€™s okay, heโ€™s covered.โ€

But Pacquiao, despite the magnitude of his own fight was insistent. โ€œHe said no Freddie, Shiming needs you there to win the fight. He said go to the Shiming fight. I said no Manny weโ€™ve got a big fight coming up, itโ€™s really important that weโ€™re together. But he won the argument. He told me to come here and help Shiming and me and Marvin can do our best to get him to win a world title,โ€ Roach revealed.

โ€œManny Pacquiao is like the nicest guy in the world. He actually told me to go. He said Shiming is a better fighter when youโ€™re in the corner. So go to the fight.

“You donโ€™t see that around fighters but Mannyโ€™s a gentleman.โ€

Freddie Roach discusses the Zou Shiming fight in depth HERE

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