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By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s old strength and conditioning trainer Alex Ariza believes that he’s making a mistake in fighting WBA World welterweight champion Lucas ‘La Maquina’ Matthysse (39-4, 36 KOs) in their fight on July 15 at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
By Chris Williams: Strength coach Alex Ariza says he thinks Manny Pacquiao (59-7-2, 38 Kos) can return to his old form with the help of science. Pacquiao is 39-years-old, and he’s coming off of a 12 round decision defeat at the hands of Jeff Horn.
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s former strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza thinks that Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank is looking to cash Pacquiao out. Arum is talking about Pacquiao returning to the ring this year after being retired recently. Ariza thinks that Arum just wants to get what he can out of Pacquiao, and that he thinks he discards fighters like animals.
“He’s going to cash Pacquiao out,” said Ariza about promoter Bob Arum to Fighthype.com. “It’s not different from what he did with Erik Morales, with Chavez, with any of them. He’ll try to cash you out and get what you can get out of you. That’s what he does. He treats fighters like animals. It’s like a race dog. Once you’re done racing, throw you in the trash,” said Ariza.
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao’s former strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza says he didn’t see anything from Pacquiao’s performance last Saturday night against Floyd Mayweather Jr. that would indicate that Pacquiao was suffering a right shoulder injury, according to Fighthype.com.
Ariza says he watched the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight over and over again, and he saw no signs of Pacquiao looking injured. Besides that, Ariza saw no ice being applied to Pacquiao’s shoulder or it being massaged the way coaches would do for someone with an injury to their shoulder.