Where Is Pacquiao’s head? – Boxing
November 2nd, 2009
By Jamie Hooper: After seeing the last two HBO Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 episodes I was left thinking that there was something very different about Manny Pacquiao. He is no ordinary fighter. His huge support from the Philippine people has turned into a huge responsibility. As his country is hit my a natural disaster his instinctive desire is to help.
But want I have noticed about him is that the shear magnitude of what is happening in the Philippines is dwarfing his boxing ambitions. When Freddie Roach interrupted a meeting Manny was having with a politician, Manny looked at Freddie very dismissively like anything training camp related was rather insignificant.
This is all very normal an what you would expect from anyone who loves there country and now feels a growing responsibility for it. But this has been the mother of all distractions when it comes to his preparations for Cotto.
His early sparring sessions have been reported as being poor. On 24/7 we get a snippet of his sparring obviously any comments on what we got to see would be highly speculative as he could have been working on anything. But Freddie wasn’t happy with what he saw, having to remind him that he was training for his biggest fight since Marquez.
This is in stark contrast to the confidence emanating from Freddie Roaches face during the training camp for the Hatton fight. Manny seamed 100% focused and razor sharp in sparring.
Freddie finally gets Manny back to the wild card gym. Freddie almost instantly looks a lot happier and Manny seams to have finally turned his full attention to the fight in hand.
As far as I see it. Manny has had a training camp where he has been massively distracted for the first 6 weeks then giving it 100% for the last 2. If he ends up loosing to cotto at least there will be no shortage of excuses.
I would have much preferred to see Manny in the same sort of camp that he had for the Hatton fight. But I think mannys head is in places far bigger than boxing and he no longer has Freddie Roach on the same pedestal that he was once on in the early days.
I think Manny should remember that he uplifts his countries spirit’s the most my winning.
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Hopefully Cotto will withstand the barrage from pacman and make a good fight of it unlike Ricky Hatton. We need to see a less one sided fight here as the mayweather marquez fight was too one sided…
where his head is going right now is good for manny. dont worry it will help him relax.comes the day of the fight, it will all pay up.
unbiased article good to see
Energizer Bunny wins! Keeps on punching and punching and punching and punching…………… KO Kuto!
david m,
If lesser skilled fighters like Judah and Torres and 5 others rocked him in the 1st Round but failed to continue the momentum to the later rounds, Manny will not just rock him, he will rock him to sleep the latest is on 5th round.
No excuse 4 pacman. if he lose on the 14th is because of a better fighter name cotto.it easy to make excuse
Look like all the Pacman’s fans are trying to convince themselves about his future. You all try so hard to believe in Manny’s superpowers.
Keep trying.
If my country was in trouble i would want to be there to help too. But Manny is thinking the same if what you say is right.. But Manny is a great fighter and is ready for the fight.. Cotto wouldnt know what hit him.
Lame! Lame! Lame!
P.S. and your name is Macky Packy?! Which one is the first
ha ha ha you’re funny! Packy i’m not a Pacquiao hater. No way. I’m not his fun either. And i’m cannot say i’m a Cotto fun. I like very much boxing. It’s hard for you (a Pacquiao lover) to understand that. I told you before try to be honest. So i like boxing, i was o boxer as a junior and i think i understand boxing much better then a novice. Pacquiao is a great fighter no doubt about that and Cotto is a great fighter also. He has beat many great fighters in his career and not by low blows. And i think he has a better chanse to beat Manny in this fight.
The secret to Freddie Roache’s prediction that Manny will KO Miguel in the first round…….Here it goes…The bell rings…The fighters meet at ring center, touches gloves…Manny says to Miguel “Look Your Shoe Laces Are Undone”…Miguel Looks…Manny throws a blinding right hook to Miguels left chin…Bang, Down & Out goes Miguel like Hatton, KO…10 seconds into round 1……
THE NEW WBO WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD & STILL THE BEST EVER POUND 4 POUND KING…Aloha
HBO 24/7 episode 2…..Manny’s sparring session with a middleweight showing him receiving some mega power shots to the body….Notice Manny did not take a KNEEL DOWN….Manny in past videos claims that he likes to punish his body in order train his mind so he will be able to tolerate pain during his match….He also does this with his so-called Stick Training where he gets hit with sticks from Thailand to his body & forearms…aloha enjoy a history making contest…
Pacquiao is doing just fine. If he was not, he wouldn’t be able to handle three tough sparring Partners,in a sparring seesion, one of whom is bigger and faster than Cotto with KO power to boot!
If Pacman loses, it’s all his fault and no one to blame.
Why would Freddie Roach allow Manny’s worst sparring session to be shown on HBO? Why would he not show the one where he KO’d Porter that was the last sparring in Baguio before that one! I don’t doubt that pacman did’nt look good on that sparring session but why show that one? Hmmm… is it Roach strategy to bend Cotto’s mind Round 1 KO or Pacquiao is not really good so I should bully him? Or just purely HBO marketing ploy?
Cotto is only showing like a few animated frames of his sparring. I understand he won’t reveal his strategies. HBO should show his sparrings with Gato Figueroa but then why? Cotto’s weaknesses will be revealed for sure.
HBO is all about hype because Manny’s odds are too high against Cotto, they want to even out the 2 fighters as much as possible so people actually watches the PPV. It’s all about selling this fight!
You’ll have no excuses on this end Tommy if Cotto wins- I already think he’s a dangerous fighter but I’m still leaning towards Pac…Pac in ten!
good points here…
What’s your real name? Teonto or Teopak?
Try to think sometimes and not get too caught up with hype and marketing/publicity. I know it’s hard for people like you Teo.
Hey Teo,
Why would Freddie Roach allow Manny’s worst sparring session to be shown on HBO? Why would he not show the one where he KO’d Porter that was an earlier sparring? I don’t doubt that pacman did’nt look good on that sparring session but why show that one?
Cotto is only showing like a few animated frames of his sparring. I understand he won’t reveal his strategies. HBO should show his sparrings with Gato Figueroa but then why? Cotto’s weaknesses will be revealed for sure.
HBO is all about hype because Manny’s odds are too high against Cotto, they want to even out the 2 fighters as much as possible so people actually watches the PPV.
Where is Paquiao’s head?
Right now I don’t know and I don’t care, after the fight, rolling down the ring.
Manny wont need excuses…he’s not going to lose.
This could be Pack’s last fight. In 3 weeks since he arrived in LA until Nov.14, Manny has been in crunch time. If it’s in school, it’s cramming time to catch up the lost time before the exam.
I doubt he is able to put his head 100%. Cotto is a tough boxer and underrated overall skills. What ever the odds in favor of Pacquiao, they are all media hype and nothing more.
O.K. so now they are starting to pave the Road For
Manny’s Excuses.
Pacquiao finds peace in this chaotic world, he elevates his focus beyond all the distractions that are happening to him. The most important thing for Pacquiao is his happy with whatever his doing. Only happiness that he feels can give Pacquiao the strength to find courage and inspiration especially when he shares it with the people whom he cares most about.
pacquiao will give up his advantige which is his speed if he does not keep his head on the task. cotto is very strong and packman doesnt need to stand there and trade punches with him. at least not at the begining.
Agree with the article. Training seems to have been disrupted for the first couple of weeks for Pacman, while Cotto’s looked rather more focused and determined.
Hatton had poor preparation for his fight against Pacman and look what happened to him. However, Roach did look happier when in LA and it might just prove out to be that stories coming from LA about poor sparring and tensions in the camp are a way to deter the favouritism for Pacquiao in this fight, seeing as he has been the underdog in his last two fights, maybe less so against Hatton but especially De La Hoya.
24/7 on HBO is all hype and and exaggertion!
you won’t really know anything until the bell will ring!! think about it!
but where is Packy the filipino husband of a Angel Locsin copy?
) he makes me looool a lot with his boxing lessons and knowledge. Man don’t write crap anymore pls. You are so boring with your Pacquiao win prediction. Shut up.
I totaly agree with this article. Good article!
I agree mate, from the 24/7 eps it seems that pacquiao is enjoying the celebrity life style too much. He really doesn’t seem that focused to me although im no expert. If he doesn’t stay 100% focused on cotto it could be an early night. I think he is a bit too over confident =/