Boxing: Pacquaio-Mayweather Could Still Happen: Roach by Rebecca BRYAN

 LOS ANGELES,  (AFP) – Trainer Freddie Roach says avenging losses to Timothy Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez are the top items on Manny Pacquiao’s to-do list but believes the Filipino will one day face Floyd Mayweather.

But Hall of Fame trainer Roach said Pacquaio’s legacy depends more on turning the tables on the two opponents who beat him in 2012 than on a belated, late-career tilt at Mayweather.

“In the history books you have to avenge your losses, you have to avenge your losses in life,” Roach said Wednesday at his Wild Card gym in Los Angeles, where Pacquiao’s media workout drew a throng.

Pacquiao, the former world champion in eight weight divisions, will get his shot at retribution against Bradley in Las Vegas on April 12.

Both fighters are calling it a chance for redemption, after Bradley beat Pacquiao by a controversial split decision in June 2012 — a bout that many observers thought Pacquiao had dominated.

“His record looks good, but if he’s so good, why didn’t he fight Pacquiao?” Roach asked.

In the meantime, Pacquaio is calmly getting on with the business of preparing for Bradley, who has twice defended the title he won from Pacquiao and taken his record to 31-0 with 12 knockouts.

In his only fight of 2013 Pacquiao defeated Brandon Rios to take his record to 55-5 with two draws and 38 knockouts.

Asked if there was anything he saw from Bradley in their first fight that concerned him, Pacquiao thought for a moment, and said: “No, nothing.”

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