Roach: At least Mikey Garcia is calling out real fighters!

In this video interview with Fight Hub TV, Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach gives his take on Mikey Garcia’s ambitous plans to move u a couple of divisions to take on Errol Spence…

Roach on Mikey Garcia saying he wants to move up to welterweight to fight Errol Spence:

“At least he picking fuckin’ real fighters! [Laughs]. You know, he’s not picking any girls out there…

“I think that it’s too much of a jump. I mean, let’s go one step at a a time and then we’ll see how we do in those fights and then that’ll dictate what happens at that [weight] because ‘47 is big. I mean and Spence is a great puncher. He can really hit.

“I like Errol Spence, he was one of my favorite guys when I was training the Olympic team that year and he was on that team and he was a great puncher.”

On if he knew back then that Spence would be an eventual world titleholder:

“Yes. Definitely. Then he knocked out Broner at the Olympic training center and — Broner didn’t go down, though, but the thing is he just didn’t know where he was for a little while. But the fight would’ve been stopped if was a real fight…[Caught him with a hook], but he leads with his power hand so that’s his power hand. He is a very good fighter, Spence, and he might be the best fighter in the world today…”

On if he thinks Pacquiao-Lomachenko would be a good match-up:

“Two guys with great footwork. I wanna see that fight, yeah. Yeah, I’d like to see that fight. Sure.”