Boxing's Diamond Marriage; Roach and Pacquiao will never part ways

Forget what you heard or saw about the tension and turmoil between Manny Pacquiao and his trainer Freddie Roach because this partnership is set in stone. There have been speculation coming from various places about how Pacquiao and Roach's relationship is starting to sour and some even predicting a parting of ways between boxing's most successful tandem in the past decade.

Well, I can understand the worrywarts like our friend over in New York, Michael Marley, but loyalty in the Philippines is still a top commodity. Understand that where Pacquiao is from, there is no divorce. With that said, regardless of whatever tension there is that will ever come between Pacquiao and his trainer, the Filipino superstar will never allow it to escalate to point that they will have to part ways.

Freddie is family. He is the Philippines' favorite uncle and as much as Pacquiao values his fans, they won't allow the man behind much of his success to go either. Maybe if Pacquiao grew up in the US and had different values, but as a Filipino, I know we are loyal and sentimental people.

Even if it is Roach himself that says he wants out, Pacquiao will not allow it. Both men have said they can't imagine themselves not being with one another. They simply have gone through so much and accomplished a lot together to even think about parting ways now. And besides, Roach himself downplayed the drama shown on HBO 24/7's initial episode of Pacquiao-Cotto and said in a recent media conference call,

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-10947-Indianapolis-Fight-Sports-Examiner~y2009m10d29-Boxings-Diamond-marriage-Roach-and-Pacquiao-will-never-part-ways"There were no disagreements in camp. I just felt it was urgent that we do get out of there before the typhoon hit. I was worried about the safety of the sparring partners and Manny and the team and myself. I was just very concerned that the typhoon was going to come quicker than it did. Manny was more relaxed about it and I told him that I would be waiting in Manila for him just trying to get him motivated to go. That night at midnight he got motivated for me to go and he called me and said “let’s go.” So we left at midnight and went right to Manila."

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So enough to all these divorce speculation nonsense. I doesn't matter if it's Michael Koncz, Bob Arum or even Aling Dionisia herself that asks Manny to get rid of Freddie. Because truth be told, as great as Pacquiao is, he wouldn't be anywhere near he is today without Freddie. And he knows it too. Just as the slogan says, Pac Man Knows.