NEW YORK?Consensus world featherweight boxing champion Manny Pacquiao?s chief cornerman Freddie Roach was recently named Trainer of the Year in a poll of fight experts but US promoter Murad Muhammad isn?t about to congratulate the red-haired former Massachusetts featherweight contender.
Muhammad told The Star the other day he has not forgiven Roach for calling him a thief. Besides, Roach hasn?t apologized, said Muhammad.
Roach accused Muhammad of shortchanging Pacquiao in the fight against Marco Antonio Barrera in San Antonio last November. Muhammad denied the charge, insisting Pacquiao and his business manager Rod Nazario knew all along the amount of the purse he negotiated in the Home Box Office (HBO) show.
