In this video interview with Fight Hub TV, Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach gives his take on Mikey Garcia’s ambitous plans to move u a couple of divisions to take on Errol Spence...
Roach on Mikey Garcia saying he wants to move up to welterweight to fight Errol Spence:
“At least he picking fuckin’ real fighters! [Laughs]. You know, he’s not picking any girls out there...
“I think that it’s too much of a jump. I mean, let’s go one step at a a time and then we’ll see how we do in those fights and then that’ll dictate what happens at that [weight] because ‘47 is big. I mean and Spence is a great puncher. He can really hit.
“I like Errol Spence, he was one of my favorite guys when I was training the Olympic team that year and he was on that team and he was a great puncher.”
On if he knew back then that Spence would be an eventual world titleholder:
“Yes. Definitely. Then he knocked out Broner at the Olympic training center and — Broner didn’t go down, though, but the thing is he just didn’t know where he was for a little while. But the fight would’ve been stopped if was a real fight...[Caught him with a hook], but he leads with his power hand so that’s his power hand. He is a very good fighter, Spence, and he might be the best fighter in the world today...”
On if he thinks Pacquiao-Lomachenko would be a good match-up:
“Two guys with great footwork. I wanna see that fight, yeah. Yeah, I’d like to see that fight. Sure.”