By Chris Williams: Despite being a reported 150 pounds as he’s about to start training camp for his June 9th fight against the smaller Timothy Bradley, WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao feels he’s underweight, according to the Manila Bulletin. Pacquiao supposedly has to eat a ton to keep his weight above 140, and he says he can still make lightweight. Isn’t he already three pounds over the limit? What’s the problem?
That’s kind of interesting because if he can still make lightweight, why didn’t Pacquiao agree to give lightweight Juan Manuel Marquez a midway point catchweight between 135 and 147?
Pacquiao told the Manila Bulletin “Right now, I am about 150 lbs…I can still make 135lbs.”
Well, let’s look at it this way. Pacquiao is about to start a lengthy training camp to get ready for Bradley, who fights at light welterweight and is smaller than him in size. Does Pacquiao need to have a big weight advantage over Bradley to beat him? Bradley is likely going to be coming into the fight with Pacquiao weighing a low 140lbs. If Pacquiao comes into the fight at roughly the same weight, isn’t that enough? If he’s better than Bradley then he should be able to beat him regardless if he doesn’t have a size advantage over him.
If Pacquiuao wants to gain weight he might want to consider losing his strength and conditioning trainer Alex Ariza. Not having him around exercise Pacquiao like mad to get him in shape he can probably keep his weight reasonably high while saving a little money at the same time. Since Pacquiao is already having leg problems anyway even with Ariza as his strength and conditioning coach, then Pacquiao should just dump him so he doesn’t have anything to complain about anymore. If Pacquiao loses Ariza, he can probably hod onto another 10 pounds of weight that he wouldn’t be able to retain with Ariza exercising him like crazy.
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