By Michael Marley
Typhoon Megi, say hello to Hurricane Bob.
No one tipped off Bob Arum about the looming typhoon expected to hit Northern Luzon late Sunday or early Monday but he is undeterred on his mission to overlook the intense training camp condition of “Pacific Storm” Manny Pacquiao.
“A typhoon? You’re kidding me,” Arum told me by telephone a few minutes ago. It sounded as he had just landed in Manila.
Inquirer.com reports that the typhoon could force Pacman to exit Baguio for Manila and do his last week of training in his homeland there.
See Bloomberg report on Typhoon Megi's path.
If so, the media day planned for Monday, October 18, might also be changed.
Here’s the weather info from The Inquirer:
“But reports that Typhoon Megi, which weather experts said may dump the same amount of rainfall on Northern Luzon as Typhoon Ondoy did on Metro Manila last year, will make landfall late Sunday or early Monday morning which could force Arum to change his itinerary.
Trainer Freddie Roach, camp insiders said, has already aired concerns about possible landslides that might cut off routes out of Baguio City and delay Team Pacquiao’s travel plans.
“Manny did great,” Ariza told the Inquirer after the pound-for-pound champ’s workout yesterday at Teacher’s Camp in Baguio City. “It was the best work I’ve seen all week.”
Pacquiao went 14 rounds on the punch-mitts with Roach even as Ariza said they didn’t want him to go any longer.”
