Coach Freddie Roach Just Did the Right Thing: "Prevention Is Better than Cure"

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Although he gave in to Gerry’s request to continue round 9 (after he successively absorbed so many punches to his head and body) he did not want it to be continued after round 10 after seeing Peñalosa can’t do some miracle no more.

Gerry was begging for Roach to still continue his fight for glory and victory but Freddie Roach, who has been there and done this knows that if this bout will still be prolonged, Gerry might suffer that precarious disease that he has acquired, also after he has extended his career that should have been finished if he was just listening to his trainer back then.

Freddie Roach was just doing the right thing. He’s not doing this just because he is the trainer of Gerry Peñalosa, but he is doing this as a caring friend who doesn’t think twice if Gerry will become the champion or not.

What is significantly running on Freddie’s mind at that time is what will happen to Gerry after he had absorbed consecutive power punches in his head.

Gerry could have rewritten the history of boxing if he did continue to fight after round 9, but the right question is what will happen to him in the future if he did survive this vicious onslaught brought to him by the current champion. He could have a killer disease like what Freddie Roach and Muhammad Ali has.

Thank God Freddie did what he is supposed to do in that place at the right time. He stopped the circulation of the bad saying that “history repeats itself.”

In doing this Freddie not only did make himself a better person and a trainer but also as a caring friend or brother or whatever you might call him. Freddie Roach didn’t do his job that night.

What Freddie Roach has done that night is the prevention of an uncertain future that might cause a dreadful disease for one of Philippines legend in boxing called, Gerry “The Fearless” Peñalosa.

One thing though, there is a saying in medicine that Coach Roach has certainly applied in that heart breaking loss, he had positively proven that “prevention is better than cure.”

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