Manny Pacquiao’s long-time trainer Freddie Roach is so certain his protégé will beat Keith “One Time” Thurman in their world title fight next month that he’s willing to lay a huge wager on the Philippines boxing icon.
Pacquiao, 40, will battle Thurman for the 30-year-old’s WBA welterweight super title in Las Vegas and the Hall of Fame trainer says he’s ready to make “a huge score” betting on the eight-time division world champion to win their July 20 bout.
Manny Pacquiao has made his way to Los Angeles for the back half of his training camp ahead of his July 20 FOX pay-per-view main event against Keith Thurman, and the 40-year-old living legend says he’s training harder than ever, and that he considers this fight the biggest test of his career.


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Bookmakers have installed Thurman (29-0-0, 22 KOs) as the slight favourite (1.72-1) against Pacquiao (61-7-2, 39 KOs), who is 2.1-1 to reign victorious at the MGM Grand Garden Arena – and Roach likes that the odds are stacked against his protégé for the first time in years.
The last time Pacquiao was the underdog was against Floyd Mayweather Jnr in their mega fight in 2015. But you will need to go back – way back – to find when Pacquiao was the ranked outsider.

Pacquiao vs Thurman Live Fight Stream. He was once the Welterweight champion and he dropped that after Golovkin beat him. They understood the difficult need to change a stale product for younger audiences in 2019.

When he fought the legendary Oscar De La Hoya in their 2008 fight, he was 8-1 to win by stoppage. De La Hoya famously quit on his stool at the end of the eighth round in a shock defeat that propelled “Pacman” to superstardom.