Oscar De La Hoya has hit back in the war of words with former trainer Freddie Roach.
Roach was in De La Hoya’s corner when the ‘Golden Boy’ dropped a split decision to Floyd Mayweather Jr in the richest fight in history back in May 2007.
Earlier this week Roach claimed Oscar was now blaming him for the loss, rather than himself for abandoning the pre-fight gameplan.
But De La Hoya, preparing to go up against Roach when he fights Manny Pacquiao on December 6, doesn’t agree.
He said: “I have great respect for Freddie Roach. I think he is one of the top trainers in the business. He just seems to be a little confused with his comments.
“When you think about what he is saying, and I am going to throw Bernard Hopkins and Israel Vazquez in the mix here, he has said that all of us should retire once we stopped training with him.
“Now look at Hopkins’ last fight, Vasquez also came back as a winner too. I did the same in my last fight and we will see what happens with this one. We all came back to win without him as our trainer.
“What is ironic to me is that all three of us lost when Freddie was training us, so you have to wonder if it isn’t the trainer himself and he just trained us wrong. “
