Trainers engage in verbal sparring ahead of megabout


  • Boxing
  • Friday, 01 May 2015

Manny Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach listens to a reporter's question at the MGM Grand Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada April 30, 2015. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - While trash-talking by the two fighters has been at a bare minimum ahead of Saturday's welterweight showdown between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, their trainers engaged in a war of words on Thursday.

Pacquiao's corner man, Freddie Roach, complained that the Mayweather camp had not yet submitted gloves for testing before his opposite number, Floyd Mayweather Sr., countered by saying that the Pacquiao camp was simply running scared.

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