Let’s get ready for Roach vs. Santiago

By: Albert Alvarez
Freddie Roach the MVP vs. Joe Santiago Potential Rookie Of Year- The clash between Cotto versus Pacquiao will be relentless, fierce, and explosive. It will be like sticking both fighters into a torture chamber and see which man comes out on top. The Most Valueable Player in this script are the eyes behind the madness, Freddie Roach. Roach is known for playing head games with the Pac-Man's opponents, we all remember the Oscar can't pull the trigger line right? Or the Hatton is ordinary, Hatton will not last more than 3 rounds against us line. Both lines may have gotten into Oscars and Hatton's minds forcing both fighters to doubt themselves and were then forced to face inner demons never seen before. Well Joe Santiago the new eyes behind the Monster that is Cotto is wanting Roach to put his trophies on the line. Roach in retaliation responded by saying that Santiago is just someone in the corner with a towel over his shoulder, that Cotto trains himself. It appears that this being Santiago's first time at the biggest dance of them all wants to make a big splash. In making a big splash, your fighter will have to slice up Pacquiao and serve his ass on a platter. If Cotto does win, does that make Santiago a MVP candidate? Absolutely not, but Santiago will for sure be in the lead for the Rookie Of the Year Award.

The Biggest Double Header- Many boxing fans feel that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is now what Roy Jones Jr. was then. Two talented boxers that looked great against who they picked but seem to shy away from the real threats. Roy looks great against the Jeff Lacy's of the world and shot fighters like Trinidad, but when facing true threats like Hopkins, Tarver, Johnson, and Calzaghe all that greatness vanishes. Jones true masterpiece was James Toney. That's 1. In Floyd's case same can be said, Floyd looks great against the Baldamir's, and a heavier smaller Marquez but against Castillo and De La Hoya, Floyd didn't look great, Floyd looked very average. Floyd's true masterpiece was Diego Corrales. That's 1. Bernard Hopkins and Shane Mosley are cut from a different cloth, Hopkins and Mosley have flirted around near the top 10 in the pound for pound list, but not at #1 for as long as Roy and Floyd the safety minded fighters have. Hopkins swept Glen Johnson and Tarver something Roy couldn't do. Mosley had his way with Margarito, Margarito a man Floyd ran from. Mosley also jumped from 135 to 147 to face a bigger in his prime Oscar De La Hoya and looked much better in his win over Oscar than Floyd did. I propose that next year HBO should put together a monster double header PPV event with no undercards and place Hopkins vs. Jones in the co-main event and Mosley vs. Mayweather in the main event. In the beginning of the telecast we can add footage of never before seen 24/7 episodes leading to the fight that only those that buy the PPV will be able to view. Oscar and Richard and Square Ring get at me, all I ask is for the entire Diamondboxing staff to get ringside tickets for this huge event.

Juan Diaz vs. Paulie Malignaggi, the Rematch- The rematch is set to land in the city of wind. Will the rematch have the after math drama that the first fight had? Will it be as exciting as the first fight? Will Paulie display another magic show for us? Will the Baby Bull go back to his 100 punches a round relentless pressure days? So many questions and the only thing I know at this point is that all this has created monsters in both fighters. Paulie right now feels that all that foul play in Houston has only created a monster in him to prove that when the playing field is even that the Magician will perform the type of magic that one must witness to truly believe. Diaz on the other hand, Diaz feels that all that talk all that venom spit at him has only made him a hungrier fighter to show the world that the Baby Bull is indeed back. So who really is Frankenstein in all this? In the Windy City all the BS will blow away and Frankenstein shall rise.

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