I know Freddie as his brother Pepper and I were in the army together. Pepper taught me how to box at the Ft. Bragg Boxing Gym many years ago in the early 80s. Freddie fought on the undercard of Marvelous Marvin Hagler's first middleweight title defense in 81. Pepper and I drove up to Boston that weekend to see the fight. That's when I first met Freddie and his trainer, the legendary Eddie Futch. Good ol' times in boxing back in those days.
A lot of comments and hardly any mention of the legend in Freddie's corner. Eddie Futch, who was actually honored in the ring prior to this fight, is one of the greatest boxing minds ever. No legit boxing person would argue that. He learned from one of the best.
Eddie Futch was a great trainer and a good man. I helped him prepare Freddie in the dressing room for his fight on the Hagler vs Obelmejias undercard in 81. Hagler's first title defense.
Imagine telling Freddie about 40 years later about these comments on this video. Well done Freddie and thanks for your enormous contribution to our beloved sport.
I had never seen a Freddie Roach fight before, this was great to see. Impressive record at 34 - 6, and only having 11 knockouts didn't matter here, obviously.
I'm so happy I got that right. Thanks for the confirmation. When I started watching I said.....Padilla. That's uh.....yeah, Carlos Padilla, then I scrolled to your comment. Remember those days. Some legendary boxing.
It’s surprising that neither commentator had anything to say about Roach’s punishing body attack through the first three rounds. That’s what set up the knockout.
@@markmcallan973 yet the commentators kept saying Roach really wasn’t doing much damage. He was destroying the guy’s will to fight with his body shots.
@@daltonbreaux they don't know the slow but effective excecution of body shots I have fought a few boxing fights but I had a lot more Muay Thai fights many years ago and my knees to the body nearly always did the job it takes soul right out of em🤟 respect from Australia bro 👍
Roach is the man. A legend. His lessons learned and being able to pass it on is amazing. He never made it to stratospheric Heights as his protégés but an amazing contributor
It’s hilarious that at 11:30 the commentator was negatively talking about Roaches approach of trying to get a knockout with one punch and before he finished his sentence he does 😂😂😂
I know the commentators know their stuff, but I thought it was really weird that they were more concerned Roach wasn't throwing his jab then taking into consideration the strategy he had in throwing those brutal hook shots to the body. He tore Ruelaz's body up in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. They were sort of hinting at the fact that Ruelaz would be rusty after a year off and I think that Roach understood this deeply and took advantage of Ruelaz's lack of conditioning. Freddie Roach is fantastic.
I must be crazy but paq was fighting like this man crazy! I keep seeing that duck in rapid punches remind me of paq! man some of these trainers really turn fighters on to their mind set and moves Mike Tyson is a good explain too
I gotta salute freddie for lacing up the gloves and stepping into the ring it takes courage to do that & in the process he developed parkinsons from receiving blows to the head, freddie was a decent fighter for his class he was nothing more but alot less.
There is no proof that Roach developed Parkinson's from boxing. There are MANY people who have Parkinson's who have never boxed or taken repeated blows to their heads in their lives. Michael J. Fox has Parkinson's. He never boxed.
@@user-sg8kq7ii3y OK then, do you think the brain-damage FR exhibits is most likely caused by something in his past??? Not knocking FR in the least, but no matter what spiffy name you apply to what he has, he is obviously punch-drunk.
@@tickyul Not even the best doctor in the world can say for certain that Freddie's Parkinson's disease was caused by boxing. So all I'm saying is that people should not make any assumptions about it because there are tons of people who have never boxed or played football who have Parkinson's. THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING. Please don't read anything more into it.
I saw Joey Archer ringside in the Boston Garden fight Don Fullmer. Archer won. "Powder puff" puncher they said. I was isle seat 6th ringside and saw the deepest eye cut I've ever seen when Fullmer passed by me after the fight. Maybe normies idea of powder puff differs from professionals?
Boxing has alot to do with natural talent outside of the ring like speed, punching power, athleticism, and intelligence .....it dont matter how good technically you are there is always a tyson, a wilder, an ngannou out there who is genetically built for fighting...watching freddie taking repeated jabs to the head with below average speed and athletism really puts perspective on fighting...he got a super fast cardio driven and powerful pacquiao and perfected his boxing and finishing ability.... 👊 boxing isnt a sport its literally a fight
Sonny Padilla the third man in the ring. A filipino referee who also officiated Ali vs Frazier 3 in manila. Little did he know, Roach would train the greatest filipino boxer haha.
