Training camp & the road to May 2 starts today for @FloydMayweather. Time to put in that work. #MayweatherPacquiao pic.twitter.com/LzsbxO3jJx

— SHOWTIME SPORTS (@SHOsports) March 2, 2015

By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao will be meeting up next week on March 11th in a press conference in Los Angeles to discuss their May 2nd mega-fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. There will be a live stream of the press conference so that boxing fans can see it.

The press conference is off limits for regular fans. Only the media will be allowed in.

The training camp for both fighters started officially this week with Mayweather hard at work in Las Vegas at his gym, and Pacquiao working out at the Wildcard Gym in Los Angeles.

The two fighters reportedly won’t be having a press tour for the fight. Besides not having enough time to go on a long tour, it’s been said that the fight will sell itself without the need for the two fighters to hit all the major cities.

Whether the fight does well without a major tour will be seen after May 2nd when the pay-per-view totals eventually are revealed. This is one fight where you can count on the PPV numbers actually being released. However, if the fight fails to break records or do the numbers that were expected of it then you can point to the lack of a long promotional tour as one reason for this.

The hard part of the training for Pacquiao doesn’t start until the arrival of his trainer Freddie Roach next week. Roach is still in Macau, China, training flyweight Zou Shiming for his title shot on Saturday night. Pacquiao is expected to start sparring next week.

“I will prepare hard for this fight to give the boxing fans the kind of entertainment they want,” Pacquiao said via Skysports.com. “This is what I consider the real fight of my life.”

Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach is said to have already put together the perfect game plan for Pacquiao to defeat Mayweather. This is so-called game plan is one that Roach has been working on for the past six years since the first time the two fighters attempted to put together a fight with one another.

Roach says that he had to scrap the plan due to Pacquiao and Mayweather having aged. However, from the things that Roach has been saying recently about him wanting to have Pacquiao throw a lot of punches and put nonstop pressure on Mayweather on May 2nd, it seems that Roach still has the same game plan in effect.

Roach’s previous game plan for Pacquiao to beat Mayweather entailed Pacquiao putting tons of pressure on him, with Pacquiao throwing a lot of shots to try and overwhelm Mayweather’s offense. Since Roach isn’t talking about Pacquiao putting more emphasis on using his boxing skills against Mayweather, you’ve got to assume that Roach’s entire game plan will consist of Pacquiao trying to blast Mayweather out by throwing a ton of shots at him.

Not only is this the same plan that Roach put together six years ago, it’s also the same plan of attack that Roach put together for Pacquiao to defeat Juan Manuel Marquez in their fourth encounter in 2012.

As we saw in that fight, Roach’s plan was a miserable failure with Pacquiao getting knocked clean out in the 6th round when his sloppy fighting style finally caught up to him. Earlier in the fight, Pacquiao had been knocked down by a right hand from Marquez.