PACQUIAO CANCELS AFTERNOON WORKOUT
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 08 Oct 2016
Has the dual role he is now playing -- that of being a lawmaker and a fighter -- exacting it's toll on the Philippine's boxing pride Manny Pacquiao?
This question propped up yesterday when the scheduled training session was cancelled. A slight attack of cold forced eight division world boxing champion and now senator to skip anew a scheduled training session.
Pacquiao was able to still do the routine roadwork inside the Forbes Park subdivision in Makati City in the morning of the same day after which he beg to skip the gym portion of the schedule.
"Tumakbo sya kanina and it was after the jogging that he said he wanted to rest," Aquiles Zonio, head of Pacquiao's senate media team, said in a text message to this reporter.
Pacquiao is presently in deep preparations for his comeback fight with World Boxing Organization welterweight titlist Jessie Vargas on November 5 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
That was the second time in exactly a week that a training session was waived. Friday last week, chief trainer Freddie Roach also gave the former Sarangani Congressman a rest following a tiring marathon 13-hour senate justice committee inquiry held the previous day.
Roach dismissed though the notion that the dual role his prized student was performing was affecting both his being a public servant and a professional boxer.
"No, it's not," the decorated cornerman assured after what he said was an impressive sparring session last Thursday of where Pacquiao exchanged punishing blows with promising Mexican-American junior-welterweight Jose Ramirez and local lightweight Leopoldo Doronio for eight rounds.
"Catching cold and getting tired or fatigued are two different things. Manny's completely recovered from the tiredness he suffered las week. He did even better today than the past two sparring sessions and he was amazingly strong and fast," he attested.
"I'm not worried and nobody should," Roach said. "Although I may add that he should also watch out not getting sick and overwork, You know who Manny is, he has this tendency to do more than what he must only do. So, it's our duty in the training team to guide him."
What is good, according to he Hall of Fame trainer, is these things are happening now and not later in the preparations when "they can no longer be remedied."
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