{"id":44277,"date":"2015-03-08T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44277"},"modified":"2015-03-08T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T08:27:11","slug":"cotto-says-roach-is-pacquiaos-secret-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/08\/cotto-says-roach-is-pacquiaos-secret-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotto says Roach is Pacquiao&#8217;s \u2018secret weapon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10371\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10371\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10371\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao.jpg\" alt=\"Manny 'Pacman' Pacquiao. (Tracy Lee \/ Manny Pacquiao official Facebook page)\" width=\"960\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manny &#8216;Pacman&#8217; Pacquiao. (Tracy Lee \/ Manny Pacquiao official Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Puerto Rican boxer Miguel Cotto said that he has discovered boxing legend Manny Pacquiao\u2019s secret weapon: 7-time Boxing Coach of the Year, Freddie Roach.<\/p>\n<p>Roach, whose services were recently employed by Cotto, has been Pacquiao\u2019s trainer for several years now.<\/p>\n<p>Cotto said that as far as boxing science goes, Roach will play a big role in the fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr..<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters from the New York Post, Cotto said: \u201cAfter working with Freddie I think Freddie is going to be huge in the fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, Cotto got in the ring with Pacquiao for the WBO welterweight title. The Purto Rican hit the floor twice, before the fight was stopped in the 12th round.<\/p>\n<p>Cotto also fought Mayweather some years later, but lost by unanimous decision.<br \/>\nWhen asked for his opinion as to who would triumph in the much-anticipated Pacquiao-Mayweather bout, the boxer answered: \u201cI\u2019m going for Manny,\u201d as he explained that the Filipino is a tougher match.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Puerto Rican boxer Miguel Cotto said that he has discovered boxing legend Manny Pacquiao\u2019s secret weapon: 7-time &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}