Trainers engage in verbal sparring ahead of megabout (Reuters)

By Mark Lamport-Stokes LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – While trash-talking by the two fighters has been at a bare minimum ahead of Saturday’s welterweight showdown between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, their trainers engaged in a war of words on Thursday. Pacquiao’s corner man, Freddie Roach, complained that the Mayweather camp had not yet submitted gloves for testing before his opposite number, Floyd Mayweather Sr., countered by saying that the Pacquiao camp was simply running scared. Roach and Mayweather Sr. have got on like oil and water over the years and, hardly surprisingly, there was no eye contact between them as Roach ended his news conference and passed by Mayweather Sr. on the media center stage at the MGM Grand. “I don’t hate Floyd Mayweather Sr, I just hate his poems,” Roach said of his fellow American, who frequently recites pithy poems about his fighters’ opponents.