MANILA, Philippines – Trainer Freddie Roach arrived at 3:45 a.m. Sunday, bringing with him with two big sparring partners for Manny Pacquiao, light middleweight Michael “ Murder Man” Medina ( 24-2-2, 19 KO’s) and undefeated welterweight Glen Tapia (7-0, 5 KO’s).
"We have a big fight ahead of us, we have some great sparring partners and we are ready to go to work,” he said.
Roach said he would meet pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao later on Sunday, after Pacquiao’s arrival from his hometown of General Santos City and “work everything out.”
While his plan has been to move the training camp to Baguio City “after a couple of days,” Roach stated emphatically “we will start training tomorrow (Monday)” at the Johnny Elorde Gym in Quezon City where Pacquiao trained for two days last week.
Roach said that “without a doubt,” he had enough time to get Pacquiao in shape to battle the bigger and much taller Antonio Margarito—five inches taller with a six-inch reach advantage—for the vacant WBC super welterweight title at the Dallas Cowboys Stadium on November 13.
“No problem at all,” he said. “We have seven good weeks and we’ll make the most of it.”
The celebrated trainer who has presided over Pacquiao’s amazing run of seven world titles in seven different weight divisions said Pacquiao wanted to train in the Philippines because “we had good luck here last time” referring to the successful title victory against WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto last Read More >>>
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