Pacquiao Wants to train in Baguio, No Issues with Roach; Kessler-Perdomo, Andrade-Williams
September 4th, 2009
By Eric Thomas: In an interview yesterday, Manny Pacquiao made it clear that he prefers that his training camp be conducted in Baguio, in the Philippines and not in Mexico.
His trainer Freddie Roach has been after Pacquiao to try and get him to train in Toluca, Mexico, a place which he feels will have far less distractions for Pacquiao then training in the Philippines. Roach isn’t the only one who has a preference for a training location.
Bob Arum, apparently, wants the training camp to be conducted in Vancouver, Canada. However, in the end, it looks as if the training camp for his November 14th fight against Miguel Cotto will be done in the Philippines, according to Abs-CBN News.
Pacquiao says that he has no problems with Roach, contrary to some of the gossip that has been floating around the net. Pacquiao will be meeting Roach next week as they begin their five city press tour to promote the Cotto-Pacquiao fight.
Pacquiao says he will be training for eight weeks, and no more than that. Roach wanted Pacquiao to start training already, but Pacquiao feels that he doesn’t need as much training as Roach wants and is adamant about eight weeks being enough time to get ready for Cotto.
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Kessler completes training for Perdomo bout
World Boxing Association super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler (41-1, 31 KO’s) completed the sparring portion of his training for his bout against Italian challenger Gusmyr Perdomo on September 12th. Kessler, 30, will be finishing up his training in the next week and then will be fighting at the MCH Messecenter Herning, in Herning, Denmark, on September 12th.
Once this fight is past him, Kessler will be participating in the Super Six tournament in November, fighting Andre Ward in the group I. portion of the competition. Kessler is predicted to be the ultimate winner of the Super Six tourney. However, Kessler has some very tough competition in Carl Froch, Andre Dirrell, Ward, Arthur Abraham and Jermain Taylor. He may be in for a big surprise.
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Andrade vs. Williams tonight
Undefeated 2008 U.S. Olympian Demetrius Andrade (6-0, 5 KO’s) will be fighting John Williams (3-0-1, 2 KO’s) tonight in a six-round bout at the Twin River Event Center, in Lincoln, Rhode island. Andrade has looked quite good in breezing through his first six opponent since turning pro last year, knocking out five of six of them and going unbeaten. Williams is a tough opponent and this won’t be an easy fight for Andrade unless he’s fighting at the top of his game.
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@ Lance: Cotto is Puerto Rican. He is slow and a sitting duck? LoL. Look, dude, go away and post to some sewing and cooking forum, ok?
That mexican Cotto is overrated. He’s like a sitting duck target. He’s so slow! I hope the fight will last all 12 rounds. Id like to see that mexican cotto bleeds to death!
if pac realy wants to win and keep the respect he has for his fans then he must train now boxing is a sport where you have to be focussed
Doesn’t matter where and how long Pac trains, Cotto’s gonna bust him up anyways.
Everyone is different, Pac is naturally a trim guy,others like hatton are not naturally slim! so 8 weeks of intensive training is all it takes to get pac in top shape, remember, you can overtrain which cotto runs the risk of doing.
Cotto is only having such a long training camp to make sure he hits the weights ok and does not have to starve himself like a maniac for 2 weeks leading up to the fight,sensible i think.
Fight fan you must realize that Pacquiao has been training all for his fights in 8weeks, nothing more, nothing less…Its obvious that Cotto’s camp is taking this fight seriously because they have to, its Cotto’s biggest fight since Mosley; its Cotto’s chance to regain the title as one of the elite. All I’m saying is the fight will speak for itself. If Pacquiao loses would the lack of training and all the extra-curriculum activities Pacquiao has done would be a factor in the fight? And, if Cotto loses would over-exertion due to a lengthy training would play a role on the outcome of the fight? And, would the psychological effect due to his previous losses surface in the fight? These questions would be answered in November; we shall all see…
WHACQIAO IS GONNA GET ROCKED N ROLLED BY COTTO. ON NOVEMBER… MUAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Yeah, it’s only you AB12. Pac says he’ll train if he’s ready, so what!??! Are you or anyone else PAY him yo train? The way I see it, he’ll do his training and fight into the match just like any other JOB you and I have to do, whatever else don’t matter. Hey, he’s got nothin to lose, he even mentioned it loud and clear, 2-3 fights then that’s it! He made the money, why force yourself get banged and get all those accolades and retired a retard!? Fame and fortune is already his, a shot at history for the 7th title, that’s plenty of motivation, if not, then do it for fun! Cotto? Well, this is his chance in history to stop THE Pacman Storm! I’m sure as professionals, Arum, Roach and the whole team are fully commited, as usual. This is the team that don’t build on hype to get them going. Come training time and match day, it’s all full steam ahead… if they lost, so WHAT!!!!
Is it just me or is the pac camp already feeling a bit shakey? Theres already been a few issues and the training has barely started . . And i also feel roach is not as confident as he was as soon as this fight was announced..