LAS VEGAS - Trainer Freddie Roach said yesterday promoting fights isn’t his business but if anyone cares to listen, he prefers newly-crowned WBC lightweight champion Manny Pacquiao to face IBO lightwelterweight titleholder Ricky Hatton of Manchester as his next opponent in November.

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