Pacquiao, sparmate toe-to-toe

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Manny Pacquiao went three blistering rounds with unbeaten super-welterweight Shawn Porter as the Filipino pound-for-pound king's training for his November 14 clash with Miguel Cotto went up a notch with his first sparring session.

“They both traded hard shots,” said Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach after the workout at the Shape Up Gym inside the Cooyeesan Hotel in Baguio City. “Porter is (very strong).”

Now that sparring has started, Pacquiao will now have to do it thrice a week and on Thursday, Roach said he will go four rounds, two with the Ohio-bred Porter and another two with Urbano Antillon, a lightweight contender from California.

After Wednesday's session, Pacquiao will have to get himself ready again for the Saturday session.

Porter and Antillon arrived in the country from Los Angeles last Sunday but only made it to Baguio the following day due to massive flooding in Metropolis and low-lying areas in Luzon the past few days.

Porter, 21, an alternate in the US team to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, has a 10-0 win-loss card with eight knockouts and is revving up for a fight sometime in the third week of November in Mississippi.

Owing to the similarity of his fighting style to Cotto, Porter will be Pacquiao's main sparring partner.

“He's just perfect (for this training camp),” said Roach, who will camp out in the City of Pines until Pacquiao advises his entire team to transfer to either Los Angeles or even straight to Las Vegas.

Meanwhile, Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum, who heads Top Rank Inc., is arriving in Manila tomorrow morning for the media day scheduled that day.

If weather permits, Arum will be flown to Baguio by former Ilocos Sur Governor Chavit Singson's private plane.

If it is deemed unsafe to travel by air because of the current weather conditions, Arum will be brought there on board one of Singson's full-sized SUVs.

[MonsieurGeorges]

I hope we get some sparring footage of these two eventually

[rao007]

I hope this gets Pacquiao acclimated to punching harder as a welterweight---let's face it, the Hatton KO was based on three things: 1.) Placement of the punch 2.) Technique 3.) speed, and also the fact that Pacquiao is a natural JWW. Adding, if you see the Oscar fight Pacquiao should've made Oscar kneel down after getting those shots but he didn't that's because Pacquiao doesn't lift weights enough and relies solely on speed to generate his power. That's taken him far but he needs to punch harder if he plans to wear down Cotto enough on November to take him out.

[CrackYourJaw]

LOL, Pacquiao doesn't need to lift weights.

The gameplan for Oscar, was to keep moving, hit him, then move out of the way, not sit on his shots with full power trying to knock him down.

[JM1]

thanks for sharing bro. ive seen some vids of shawn porter, the guy can box and hes big. props to freddie for being able to look for tough sparring partners

[JM1]

I hope we get some sparring footage of these two eventually

hopefully in 24/7

[rao007]

LOL, Pacquiao doesn't need to lift weights.

The gameplan for Oscar, was to keep moving, hit him, then move out of the way, not sit on his shots with full power trying to knock him down.

Do you honestly think he can do that to Cotto for twelve rounds? Oscar was flat footed as a fighter more so in his twilight years. if Pacquiao cannot hurt Cotto--the only thing he'll do is waste energy. What I'm say is he needs more pop to his punches to make Cotto rethink about coming forward. He needs to make Cotto respect his power.

[freeloada]

Do you honestly think he can do that to Cotto for twelve rounds? Oscar was flat footed as a fighter more so in his twilight years. if Pacquiao cannot hurt Cotto--the only thing he'll do is waste energy. What I'm say is he needs more pop to his punches to make Cotto rethink about coming forward. He needs to make Cotto respect his power.

Pac is gonna need to time perfectly to be able to hit Cotto.. cause those Cotto jabs are gonna be the Key..

[freeloada]

hopefully in 24/7

yea.. i'm hyped up about the 24/7! that **** is gonna be crazy!

[No1]

manny cant stand and try to hurt cotto with big bombs, it wont work. he has to hurt cotto with punches from weid angles and punches that cotto doesnt see. that way they catch him unaware and will hurt alot more. saying that, hopefully cotto will time manny and pick him off with his jab all night thus not allowing manny to get into a rhythem and keeping him off balence.