PACQUIAO WILL BEAT UP MAYWEATHER ? PENALOSA
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 20 Apr 2015
LOS ANGELES- Boxing icon Manny Pacquiao needed eight rounds to retire legendary Oscar DeLa Hoya seven years ago on his stool.
Former two-division champion and Pacquiao's countryman Gerry Penalosa said that if the World Boxing Organization titleholder can display the same condition he showed in 2008 against DeLaHoya, it's not a remote possibility that the he might do the same to the undefeated American Floyd Mayweather Jr. when they face each other May 2 in Las Vegas. "Grabe si Manny, two weeks pa before the fight kondisyong-kondisyon na," Penalosa uttered after watching Pacquiao demolished a pair of sparring partners Saturday at the Wild Card Gym camp.
"What I saw was a perfect 12-round sparring session," Penalosa told this writer with amazement. "He was so quick with both his hands and feet. Perfect ang galaw, very smooth."
"Pag nag-cut sa ring, suwabeng-suwabe walang ka-effort-effort. Para talagang galaw niya nang talunin niya si DeLa Hoya," he said. "This early, I believe there's no problem beating Mayweather."
"If the stuff he showed kanina won't change, I can see Mayweather suffering his first defeat in his professional career," Penalosa predicted, "Manny may not be able to knock him out cold, but just the same the fight might not last the 12-round route," he said. "The ref might intervene and stop the fight."
Top photo: Pacquiao talks with close buddy and former two-time world champion Gerry Penalosa.
Pacquiao shadow boxes at the Pan-Pacific Park in Los Angeles.
Photos by Wendell Rupert Alinea.
?Manny will beat him black and blue. Bugbog sarado si Floyd, kapag ganoon ang bilis at lakas na ipinakita kanina ni Manny sa sparring, mark my words," he swore.
Pacquiao's conditioning coach Justin Fortune agreed with Penalosa's observation. "Manny was terrific today at the sparring," Fortune told this writer. "He's so strong, so fast that had it been the actual fight, he could have won easily.
"The rest he took yesterday (Friday) was perfect," he added. "That gave Manny the needed respite. He could not have also worked out on the road," Fortune noted. "His pacing today was perfect," he observed, His punches was perfectly set. He cut the ring so fluidly that both sparring partners didn't know where the punches were coming from. I really like what I saw. Freddie (Roach), too, and the rest of the training staff.
Fortune said that after Saturday's session, he would ask Freddie to reduce further the intensity in all aspects of the training program. "We'll give Manny the rest he needs. He's ready to fight now and the remaining days of the camp should be concentrated on just maintaining what we have achieved," he reasoned out. "With what we saw today, Manny will be really ready to climb the ring and fight whoever his opponent is," he said.
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