By Chris Williams: Strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza has reportedly left the Philippines where he was training WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao to get ready for his June 9th fight against Timothy Bradley in the United States.

According to the Manila Bulletin, Ariza was given the okay to travel to the U.S. to get WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. get ready for his bout against Andy Lee on June 16th.

Trainer Freddie Roach said to the Manila Bulletin “My priority is Manny Pacquiao.” In the meantime, Roach will be using strength and conditioning coach Marvin Somodio.

Ariza will meet up with Pacquiao and Roach when they move their training camp to Roach’s Wildcard gym in Los Angeles in the 2nd part of the training camp.

I don’t see this making much difference in terms of Pacquiao’s June 9th fight against Tim Bradley. Not having Ariza around for part of the training camp probably won’t mean much because Pacquiao hasn’t been following the entire grueling routine that Ariza has wanted him to in past fights anyway. So if he’s only going to have him for part of the camp, I can’t see real negative coming from that. The only thing I can see happening is maybe Pacquiao doing a little better in this fight than last time out if his legs aren’t tired out from Ariza’s exercises. Maybe Pacquiao won’t come up with leg cramps this time and be forced to walk around the ring instead of moving quickly in his former fighting pattern before he started suffering leg cramps in his recent fights.