By Chris Williams: WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-3, 31 KO’s) hit the lottery in getting picked out by Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) to be his next opponent on May 3rd, but Maidana is already being dismissed as little more than the next sacrificial lamb by boxing fans due to his slow hands and feet. But Maidana’s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza, who built a name as being the one that turned Manny Pacquiao into a powerful welterweight, believes that Maidana is going to shock the world by beating Mayweather on May 3rd.
Ariza is going to be buildig up Maidana’s body and making him the same powerful fighter that he did in transforming Pacquiao from a lightweight to a welterweight.
By Chris Williams: Trainer Freddie Roach dumped all over Manny Pacquiao’s former strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza in an interview with Radio Raheem this week. Roach said that Ariza would give Pacquiao drinks before workouts and he wasn’t sure what was inside the drinks. Roach said he didn’t trust Ariza at all, and he asked him about what was inside the drinks but Ariza wouldn’t tell him.
By Chris Williams: This Saturday night Mikey Garcia (32-0, 27 KO’s) will be challenging WBO super featherweight champion Roman Martinez (27-1-2, 16 KO’s) for his title on HBO from the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. Garcia’s strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza is excited about the transformation that Mikey’s body has gone through recently while following his strength and conditioning regimen. 
By Chris Williams: Alex Ariza, the former strength coach for Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KO’s), is picking Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) to beat Pacquiao next month in their fight on November 23rd in Macao, China. Ariza is no longer working with Pacquiao after being let go by his trainer Freddie Roach. Ariza is now Rios’s strength & conditioning coach, and he’s seen enough of him in training to predict that he’ll beat the soon to be 35-year-old Pacquiao. 
By Chris Williams: Strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza was amused to learn that trainer Freddie Roach had fired him as Manny Pacquiao’s strength and conditioning coach. Ariza says he doesn’t even work for Roach, so there’s no way possible that he could fire him.
By Chris Williams: As reportedly over the weekend, trainer Freddie Roach has reportedly fired strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza after meeting with Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KO’s) to speak with him about problems he’d been having with him.
By Chris Williams: Manny Pacquiao (54-5-2, 38 KO’s) revealed to ESPN on Monday that he won’t be working with his long-time strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza to get ready for his November 23rd fight against Brandon Rios (31-1-1, 23 KO’s) at the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China. Pacquiao says that his trainer Freddie Roach fired Ariza.
By Chris Williams: Alex Ariza, the strength and conditioning trainer for Manny Pacquiao, wants to put Pacquiao back on his old strength regimen that he had him on in the past, and then Ariza wants Pacquiao to fight a tune-up bout before facing Juan Manuel Marquez in a 5th fight next year.
By Dan Ambrose: Alex Ariza, the strength and conditioning coach for Manny Pacquiao, gives a lot of credit to Juan Manuel Marquez’s strength coach Angel Hernandez for building up Marquez’s body and strength so that he could beat Pacquiao last Saturday night. Ariza believes that what helped Marquez more than his boxing training was the condition that he was in for the fight.