Freddie Roach: Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao rematch would keep both from going broke

LAS VEGAS - Everybody, it seems, wants a crack at the retired undefeated champion Floyd Mayweather. Nobody, it seems, believes Mayweather will not fight again.

Trainer Freddie Roach said Wednesday, three days before the pay-per-view fight between his guy, Miguel Cotto, and challenger Canelo Alvarez, that he would love to see Cotto fight Mayweather a second time to finish his career.

On Thursday, he said there should be a rematch between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao next year.

"I don't see Floyd and Manny leaving all that money on the table. Those fights are like the biggest fights ever," Roach said. "If Manny wins a big fight and gets him again, I think it's definitely a rematch because you can't leave $100 million purses on the table. Even if it's $100 million instead of $300 million, that's a lot of money to leave on the table.

"The way Mayweather spends money, and Manny's so generous with his money, I worry about both of them going broke. And I would hate to see that happen. This might be a way for them not to go broke."

Roach leaves no doubt about Pacquiao's desire to rematch Mayweather, who won by unanimous decision in May in the richest fight in boxing history, and left millions disappointed and even angry over the lackluster fight at $100 a pop.

"Yes, yes, 100%. He told me," Roach said. "He said, 'Freddie, if my arm was better, we would have been so much better in that fight.' He really wants a rematch, yes."

Roach said he felt Pacquiao shouldn't have fought when they did, on May 2.

"I was the one who tried to make the fight not happen," Roach said, "and then I get outvoted by Manny, (manager Michael) Koncz, everybody. They said, if they don't fight now, maybe they'll never fight. So I didn't want that to happen either. I didn't want to blow the fight completely, you know?

"The shoulder, as camp went on and on, it was getting better. And when I was warming up in the dressing room, he was firing with that hand really, really well. Even then I was getting more confidence that maybe he's ready to go now, maybe it's healed. But by the fourth round, he told me it was over."

Pacquiao, Roach said on Thursday, will choose his next opponent from among Terence Crawford, Amir Khan and Timothy Bradley.