Manny Pacquiao Hates Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Wants To Punish Him For Domestic Violence, Trainer Says

Manny Pacquiao has never been one to trash talk an opponent, and the mental gamesmanship between Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Pacquiao ahead of their historic May 2 fight has been minimal. So if Manny won’t do it, his trainer, Freddie Roach, does it for him.

Roach’s latest salvo fired at Mayweather appears intended to get under the undefeated American’s skin by digging up Mayweather’s history of domestic violence charges and accusations.

In fact, the 55-year-old Roach admits that he’s been filling his fighter’s ear with details of Mayweather’s domestic violence record, which includes seven different allegations of assault against five women culminating in a 60-day jail bid in 2012 for battery against Josie Harris, the mother of two of Mayweather’s children.

Back in 2002, Mayweather entered a guilty plea to charges that he repeatedly punched Melissa Brim, the mother of his first child, after slamming a car door into her face. He was hit with a suspended sentence.

Other allegations against Mayweather include an incident in a Las Vegas nightclub when he allegedly attacked two female friends of Josie Harris, as well as a female security guard who tried to break up the violent assault.

In the domestic violence incident that led to Mayweather actually spending time behind bars, prosecutors charged that the boxer broke into Harris’s house and beat her up badly, as a friend, as well as Mayweather’s own two children, were forced to watch.

“Manny is really against domestic violence,” Roach said Tuesday. “It is a big issue maybe in the Philippines for him and being a congressman he can control some of that stuff. That is a big plus for me that Manny does not like the guy, I think the killer instinct is going to come back a lot faster.”

Roach said that he sees the projected $400 million pay-per-view fight not just as contest between the world’s two most elite boxers, but as a battle of “good against evil.”

“For the first time in my life with Manny Pacquiao, this is the first fighter he hasn’t liked. I can tell,” Roach said.

The Hall of Fame trainer said that he had even considered arranging a meeting between Pacquiao and Las Vegas police, so the cops could brief the fighter on Mayweather’s arrest history, “but I decided I can’t go that far. He already doesn’t like him — I think we are OK,” Roach said.

Manny Pacquiao has not said anything negative or critical about Floyd Mayweather, Jr., and it appears likely that Roach’s comments are aimed more at distracting and annoying Mayweather than motivating his own fighter.

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