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After his first day at the Wild Card Gym of celebrated trainer Freddie Roach, conditioning guru Alex Ariza says Filipino boxing hero Manny Pacquiao looks better than ever.
In an overseas telephone conversation with www.insidesports, Standard Today and Viva Sports, Ariza said Pacquiao ran for 40 minutes at Griffith Park Monday morning( Tuesday in Manila) in Manila and then went twelve rounds on the punch-mitts with Roach at the gym.
When it was all over Ariza said “I am telling you Ronnie, I am not making it up. He is looking better than alright. This is the best I’ve ever seen him.”
He said Pacquiao woke up and weighed 150 pounds for the 145 pound catch-weight “Fire Power” showdown with wbo welterweight champion Miguel Cotto at the mgm grand Garden Arena on November 14.
Pacquiao gets back into the sparring mode on Wednesday, Manila Time, but Roach hasn’t decided who he will spar with although former sparring Raymund Beltran is back at the Wild Card Gym and could possibly be one of the sparring partners.
Asked whether they had any word on Cotto’s training camp Ariza replied “you know I haven’t heard anything but I’ve got to be honest with you I wasn’t so impressed the way he looked after being in camp 30 days before Manny. He looks a little soft to me. Couldn’t let our guy look like that, that’s for sure.”
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