PACQUIAO PROMISES TO REVIVE OLD VICIOUS FORM
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 19 Mar 2015
LOS ANGELES, Cal. ? With still 44 days before he fights his World Boxing Council/World Boxing Association counterpart Floyd Mayweather Jr., World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao looks on the way to regaining the form that saw him stop four of the five pretenders that cross his path in 2008 and 2009.
?Tell them to just wait,? Pacquiao, now 36, declared in reference to doomsayers who claim he no longer has the speed and the power that had David Diaz, Oscar DeLa Hoya Ricky Hatton and Miguel Cotto kissing the canvas one after another in that two-year span to crown himself the sport?s pound-for-pound king.
?Kaya pa, kung pagsisikipan and I would like to relay to my detractors that I am trying very very hard to relive those days when I had been winning all my fights by sending my opponents to dreamland, Pacquiao, who was then only 30-31 years old said yesterday following a 10-round pummeling the mitts with chief trainer Freddie Roach at Wild Card Gym here.
?Wala pa,? he conceded, but it will come. Malayo pa naman, halos dalawang buwan pa ang preparasyon and this early, I. can feel na aabutin ko pa yung mga panahong iyon,? he vowed in reference to his punching power.
And if assistant trainer Nonoy Neri is concerned, it will need the Pacman a very short time to attain that target.
?Ngayon pa lang, Masasabi ko na nakuha na niya ang dating bilis. Grabe ang bilis ni Manny, compared sa mga nakaraang laban niya.
?Nagugulat nga si Coach Freddie sa mga nakikita nya kay Manny. Bilis ng kamay, bilis ng paa, nandyan na,? he said.
"Yung power, wala pa, but he?s almost there. Baka next week, completely recovered na nya ng winning form.? Neri, who doubled as cook in the Team Pacquiao, added.
Pacquiao?s younger brother, Bobby, a former fighter himself, agreed with Neri?s observation.
?Sobra bilis,? Bobby, who went into crowning himself WBO and WBC international junior lightweight champion butted in. ?Gaya nang dati, hindi mo malaman kung saan nanggagaling ang suntok.?
?I?ve been watching him train since we started in GenSan until we got here at talagang nakikita ko na ayaw man lang magpahinga, except during the press conference and when he had to undergo blood testing," Bobby observed.
?Desidido at determinado talaga siyang ipanalo ang darating ng laban. And when he?s in that element, like before, may paglalagyan ang kalaban,? he said.
Even Thai former WBC flyweight champion Chatchai Sasakul, from whom Pacquiao seized his first world title in 1999, and current world middleweight belt-owner Gennady Golovkin, were impressed when he saw his impressed when they saw him trained.
Sasakul flew all the way from Thailand to see how his former tormentor is now.
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