Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach said the boxer will use Sunday’s fight against Brandon Rios

By Edri Aznar
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MACAU — Manny Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach said the boxer will use Sunday’s fight against Brandon Rios to
punish members of the Rios camp who mocked Roach’s speech, which is affected by Parkinson’s disease.
The fallout from Wednesday’s physical confrontation between Roach and the Rios camp continued Thursday, with
Roach saying Pacquiao had watched video of the heated incident in which Roach was kicked and his speech
mocked.
“(Pacquiao) said to me ‘are those the guys that made fun of you?’ and I said yes, and he said ‘that’s all I need to
know’ and he walked away,” the US-born Roach told The Associated Press on Thursday. “He told me he’s going to
take care of this guy quickly.”
Roach, 53, was kicked by his former co-worker and Pacquiao cornerman Alex Ariza — now in the Rios camp
assisting head trainer Robert Garcia — and while Roach initially called for police to arrest Ariza, he laughed off the
seriousness of the confrontation a day later. [Watch the video.]
“What (Ariza) doesn’t realize is that Manny hits me 10 times harder every day. It was like a girl kicking me,” Roach
said.