MANILA, Philippines – Freddie Roach is open to the idea of bringing in Miguel Cotto, who also trains under him, to the same camp as Manny Pacquiao in preparation for the Filipino icon’s fight with Chris Algieri in Macau on Nov. 23.
Cotto and Pacquiao have a history together, having fought each other in an entertaining welterweight bout in 2009. Pacquiao stopped the Puerto Rican in 12 rounds, turning out to be one of the fighting congressman’s greatest wins.
The two fighters have been good friends since, and Cotto even ended up training also under Roach and getting his career back on track.
“They get along great,” Roach told Michael Woods of the thesweetscience.com, referring to his two prized wards.
Cotto though still has no fight lined up after his impressive victory over Sergio Martinez last month for the WBC middleweight title.
Pacquiao, meanwhile, is expected train in the Philippines for Algieri, since Macau is just a couple of hours away from here.
Roach plans to set up camps in Manila and Pacquiao’s hometown of General Santos. Cotto could end up training at either of those too.
But Pacquiao and Cotto won’t be working out at the same time.
“I would separate the times of the workouts. Because Miguel's always on time and Manny's always late,” the bespectacled trainer said.
“I haven't talked to Miguel about it yet, but he likes traveling a little bit,” he added.