Freddie Roach: I Showed Manny Pacquiao That Oscar De La Hoya Can't Cut the Ring Off

Freddie Roach is receiving a lot of credit for the job he did in training Manny Pacquiao to beat Oscar De La Hoya. Here Roach explains one tip he gave Pacquiao, based on his brief experience of working with De La Hoya:

"I was with him eight weeks and I was trying to teach him how to cut the ring off and he doesn't really know how to do that. And I said, 'Oscar, come on, stop fooling around.' I thought he was joking. He just kept following me and following me with the mitts. When you follow a guy like Manny, Manny kept walking him into the straight left hand. I said, 'Manny, it's going to be so easy. When you move to your left, instead of cutting the ring off, he's going to follow you and he's going to walk right into your left hand."

And that's how a smart trainer gives his fighter a winning game plan.