Pacquiao starts training with Roach on Monday at Wildcard gym

By Boxing News - 10/27/2012 - Comments

By Chris Williams: 33-year-old Manny Pacquiao arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday and will be starting his training with coach Freddie Roach on Monday at the Wildcard Gym to get ready for Juan Manuel Marquez on December 8th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pacquiao had previously been in the Philippines working out with his helper Buboy Fernandez to get a jump on his training camp with Roach.

Pacquiao reportedly had his way with sparring partner Anthony Marcial. However, Pacquiao was also good at sparring in his last camp for his fight with Tim Bradley, but when he came out for the fight Pacquiao was unable to work hard for the full three minutes of every round. He looked exhausted and old, struggling to work hard for even 30 seconds of every round. Roach would later blame Pacquiao’s poor performance in part due to family problems.

Pacquiao and Roach will be trying to come up with a secret plan for Pacquiao to beat Juan Manuel Marquez this time without controversy. It’s hard to imagine what Roach will try and come up with because he’s tried pretty much everything for Pacquiao in the past and nothing seems to work.

Marquez is too smart and he’s able to immediately adapt to whatever Roach comes up with, leaving Pacquiao with nothing to fall back on. I expect the same thing on December 8th to happen. Roach will spend months working on some grand scheme that he thinks will help Pacquiao beat Marquez, but when the fight starts, Marquez will figure out what Pacquiao is doing in the first minute of the fight and then dominate him like he’s done in the past three fights.

Pacquiao and Roach have been talking about trying to get Pacquiao back to his 2004 form that he had for his draw with Marquez. However, that’s next to impossible because Pacquiao was 25 then, and he’s now old 33. He can’t go back to earlier state because that Pacquiao doesn’t exist anymore.



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