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Cotto training,Pacquiao filming!
Manny Pacquiao is still filming movies while Miguel Cotto is working out in the gym with his conditioning coach exactly two and a half months before they face each other in a mega boxing event of the year billed "Firepower" on November 14, 2009 at MGM Grand in Las vegas. Does this give Cotto an edge for being in the gym earlier than Manny? Cotto is in the gym to get in good shape and be ready for a long grind of training. Manny on the other hand, always keeps himself fit by playing basketball, being active in his other careers and sometimes working out in the gym. I'd say the two fighters are yet into real hard training.
On September 10th, the press tour which will promote the mega fight will start in the Yankee Stadium in New York with stops in Puerto Rico, San Francisco, Los angeles and Beverly Hills in California. The fighters are then expected to start hard training after the tour. Cotto will shift training camp to Florida as earlier reported while Pacquiao's camp has yet to decide where to set up its training camp. Pacquiao was advised to train outside the US owing to an IRS provision called the Substantial Presence Test which mandates non-resident aliens like Pacquiao to limit their number of stay in a three-year period. Pacquiao was discovered to have exceeded the number of days allowed. He may be taxed heavily if he decides to train for eight weeks in the US soil.
Miguel Cotto is working with new trainer Joe Santiago. Although Santiago is not new to Cotto, this will only be the second fight they will be working together with Joe as head trainer. Joe will be calling the shots, so there will be somewhat a familiarity issue. They will be against a tandem of almost a decade in Freddie Roach and Pacquiao.
As the fight draws near, the preparations and training will heat up. We will get a glimpse of it through the HBO 24/7 which is expected to premier a month before the fight.
Posted by Excited Father at 9:50 AM
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