Freddie Roach blames strength and conditioning coaches for steroid use in boxing

Freddie Roach is a famous American trainer in boxing. He coaches the celebrated boxer Manny Pacquiao. The trainer claims that he knows the best method to eliminate the problem of steroid use in boxing. According to this trainer, strength and conditioning coaches should be blamed for administration of anabolic steroids and other related substances in this sport. He states that they teach boxers to take performance-enhancing drugs. Thus, Freddie Roach affirms that it is necessary to get rid of every strength and conditioning coach. It will lead to eradication of steroid use from boxing.
What does the trainer Freddie Roach think about significant changes that have occurred in physique and performance of the boxer Juan Manuel Marquez. In fact, there are different points of view about this athlete and dramatic changes in him. Many individuals suppose that he has applied anabolic steroids which have induced these changes in him. As for Freddie Roach, he thinks that Angel Guillermo Memo Heredia has supplied Juan Manuel Marquez with anabolic steroids.
The trainer Memo Heredia is an admitted steroid dealer. He acknowledged that he had provided steroids to numerous top athletes. Since he collaborated with feds and revealed names of some athletes that administered steroids, he was not charged with any crimes connected with distribution of steroids.
Thus, Freddie Roach states that strength and conditioning coaches like Memo Heredia should be pushed from boxing. It is the best method to eradicate usage of anabolic steroids and other related products from boxing.
It is interesting to mention that Manny Pacquiao, Freddie Roach’s client, also has a strength coach. Does it mean that this famous boxer takes anabolic steroids and/or other related products? The trainer Freddie Roach affirms that the strength coach Alex Arizo doesn’t supply Manny Pacquiao with steroids.
Alex Arizo and Memo Heredia are friends. So, Alex Arizo puts efforts to defend his friend, claiming that Freddie Roach’s accusations are incorrect. Actually, the trainer Freddie Roach says that he doesn’t like to pronounce any accusations connected with application of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. But he has to do it because this is the nature of boxing.
While Alex Arizo affirms that Memo Heredia doesn’t provide steroids to Marquez, Freddie Roach has own point of view. He continues to believe that Marquez is tainted. According to Freddie Roach, dramatic physical transformations of this athlete display that he administers steroids and/or other doping products.