Mayweather to begin training next week on 3/2 for Pacquiao fight

By Boxing News - 02/27/2015 - Comments

floyd8888By Chris Williams: Next Monday on 3/2, Floyd Mayweather Jr will begin his training camp for his fight against Manny Pacquiao. Mayweather will be training for eight weeks for the Pacquiao fight, which will be taking place on May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Pacquiao has already started training camp with his assistant trainer Buboy Fernandez. Pacquiao’s official training campo starts on March 8th when he’ll be joined by his trainer Freddie Roach at the Wildcard Gym in Los Angeles, California.

“To me, it’s just another day. It’s just another fight,” Mayweather said via Fighthype.com.

There’s no word yet who Mayweather will be bringing in to mimic Pacquiao’s fighting style, or if Mayweather will even bother trying to find someone that can mimic his style.

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Sometimes when fighters go through the trouble to find someone that is similar to the fighter that they’ll be facing, they wind off no better off than they would have been if they’d just found any old sparring partner.

The reason is that even sparring partners that are similar to the guys that a fighter is facing, they’re still different enough for it to be pretty much worthless for them.

Mayweather definitely isn’t worried about the Pacquiao fight in the least, as he sees the 36-year-old Filipino fighter as being shorter, smaller, and weaker and with a shorter reach them himself.

Overall, Mayweather feels that he has an advantage over Pacquiao in every facet of the game, so he’s not really worried about getting ready for him. To Mayweather, this is like just any other fight he’s had during his career, and he doesn’t see it as a big deal.

Mayweather feels it’s just a case of him fighting a smaller guy than him without it being a fight where he has a great deal to worry about.

The training camp will likely be a high intensity one for Mayweather, because he’s known for working out at an extremely fast pace with him going from one exercise to another without taking breaks. Mayweather has Pacquiao’s old strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza working as his strength coach.

Ariza was the mastermind for much of Pacquiao’s success during the height of his fame when Pacquiao moved up to the welterweight division. Ariza helped Pacquiao pack on the muscle weight and he helped increase his punching power. It’s interesting that Pacquiao chose not to keep Ariza.

It would seem that Pacquiao might have gotten rid of the wrong trainer by dumping Ariza and keeping Roach, because Ariza was clearly the guy that helped make Pacquiao a punching demon.

Since Ariza left, Pacquiao hasn’t knocked anyone out. One can only imagine what wonders Ariza could work for Pacquiao if he were to rejoin his team and get him to follow his full strength and conditioning regimen. Pacquiao would likely be 100 percent better.

Mayweather likely won’t overdo it in training camp for this fight, because he knows his body full well at this point and he doesn’t need to overdo things to get ready for this fight.



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