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"All the distractions caught up to Manny in his last fight," Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach said Thursday of the boxer's narrow decision over Juan Manuel Marquez in November.
Roach reeled off a list of adjustments that Pacquiao, 33, has made since the Marquez bout, the most notable being saving his marriage to wife, Jinkee, who Roach said served Pacquiao with divorce papers on the eve of the Marquez fight.
"He's given away his ****-fighting farm (in the Philippines), sold his casino and his nightclub," Roach said.
Roach described a pre-Marquez climate that included "girls and everything that goes with it," late nights of gambling and excessive physical wear playing too many games of basketball.
"Now, he's back with his wife, reading the Bible every day, and he's given up basketball," Roach said at Hollywood's Wild Card Boxing Club, where Pacquiao has resumed training after a stint in the Philippines.
Pacquiao said he was drawn to read a Bible that someone presented to him as a gift just before the Marquez bout.
"If a house is divided against itself," Pacquiao said in repeating a favorite passage, "that house cannot stand."
The 28-year-old Bradley (28-0, 12 KOs) of Cathedral City, Calif., is further reason to get the house in order.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/12/448...#storylink=cpy
Roach reeled off a list of adjustments that Pacquiao, 33, has made since the Marquez bout, the most notable being saving his marriage to wife, Jinkee, who Roach said served Pacquiao with divorce papers on the eve of the Marquez fight.
"He's given away his ****-fighting farm (in the Philippines), sold his casino and his nightclub," Roach said.
Roach described a pre-Marquez climate that included "girls and everything that goes with it," late nights of gambling and excessive physical wear playing too many games of basketball.
"Now, he's back with his wife, reading the Bible every day, and he's given up basketball," Roach said at Hollywood's Wild Card Boxing Club, where Pacquiao has resumed training after a stint in the Philippines.
Pacquiao said he was drawn to read a Bible that someone presented to him as a gift just before the Marquez bout.
"If a house is divided against itself," Pacquiao said in repeating a favorite passage, "that house cannot stand."
The 28-year-old Bradley (28-0, 12 KOs) of Cathedral City, Calif., is further reason to get the house in order.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/12/448...#storylink=cpy
Interesting, I hope we see the Pacquiao who went to war with Cotto and destroyed Ricky Hatton again. Bradley is a tough opponent, and one hell of a fighter, reminds me of Holyfield.
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