After steering Pacquiao to a lopsided win over Joshua Clottey of Ghana over the weekend in Dallas, Roach said the most logical fight to take in the event the Mayweather fight doesn't take place is to bring in Valero.
The Venezuelan fighter has a perfect 27-0 win-loss record with all wins by knockout, including 19 in the first round.
“If we do Valero there, we could sell out the whole place,” Roach told boxingscene.com.
Being a big puncher and a southpaw like Pacquiao, Valero, according to Roach, is “marketable.”
Roach also mentioned Marquez as another bright prospect.
Marquez drew with Pacquiao the first time in May 2004 but narrowly lost a 12-round split decision in the rematch in March 2008.
“Personally, that’s the fight that I want,” said Roach, who believes the third fight will eventually lead to a Pacquiao knockout victory.
As soon as Pacquiao emerged victorious against Clottey before some 51,000 fans at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas, the name of Mayweather was immediately brought up but the American fighter’s insistence that an Olympic-style drug testing be done on Pacquiao will jeopardize the plan of pitting them against each other.
One thing that also prevents the camps of Pacquiao and Mayweather to revive talks is the fact that Mayweather has to hurdle past Shane Mosley in their May 1 clash.
Whoever wins that match is likely to be pitted against Pacquiao.
Meanwhile, Erik Morales, who is coming off a 2 1/2 year layoff, will return to the ring on March 27 against Jose Alfaro of Nicaragua.
The last fighter to beat Pacquiao, Morales believes he can beat Pacquiao again if they fight at a heavier weight class.
Even though Morales beat Pacquiao in their March 2005 encounter, that painful loss was avenged in brutal fashion in January 2006 and in November of that same year as the Gensan pride posted tenth-round and third-round stoppages, respectively.
Pacquiao’s concert cancelled
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) — A lack of interest in ticket sales has forced a promoter to cancel a concert by Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao in Hawaii, said a spokesman for Island Fire Productions.
The concert was scrapped just days after Pacquiao beat Ghana’s Joshua Clottey in a welterweight world championship fight in front of a crowd of 50,994 at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas.
Ryan Chang of Island Fire said Tuesday that just 603 tickets had been sold for the concert in Waikiki meaning he would have to absorb a loss of about $50,000 if the show went ahead.
Source: Nick Giongco | Manila Bulletin
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