PACQUIAO?S MEDIA BLITZ CONTINUES
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 06 Mar 2008
Thrilled by the huge throng that crammed the Titanium Training Center in San Francisco for Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao?s open public workout, astute Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has arranged another open media workout at Freddie Roach?s Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles at 1:00 p.m. today.
Pacquiao, Roach and Arum will be at the Vine Street Gym to answer questions from the media while the devastating punching machine is expected to once again impress onlookers with his blazing hand speed and his punching power.
You Tube video clips showing Pacquiao playing his guitar and singing while some of those in his apartment including boyhood friend and Filipino trainer Buboy Fernandez had fun dancing, indicated that Pacquiao was relaxed and confident and didn?t appear to have any worries.
Roach and Arum have both confirmed in separate conversations with Viva Sports/Manila Standard that Pacquiao was in ?terrific shape and totally focused? with Arum stating that when Pacquiao is this way ?nobody in the world can beat him.?
But Marquez claimed, in an interview with boxingscene.com recently, that he will beat Pacquiao and that the Filipino was no Mexican assassin because while he beat Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik ?El Trerible? Morales ?he didn?t beat me.?
Sports Illustrated boxing writer Chris Mannix has picked Marquez to win in his eagerly awaited rematch at the Mandalay Bay Resort Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on March 16, Manila Time, in a fight to be telecast by Solar Sports in cooperation with GMA 7.
Mannix was quoted by Ring Magazine, the ?Bible? of boxing that Marquez ?doesn?t have the power to knock out Pacquiao but he has the skills to beat him over a twelve round distance. I like Marquez because I think he?s hungry for this rematch.?
Mannix said he had a chance to talk o Marquez who told him he ?regrets getting caught in the first round of their first fight ? adding ?I also know he regrets not having the rematch sooner, before he lost to Chris John. Marquez has what he wants now.?
Meantime Pacquiao's charming wife Jinkee said she is leaving on the Philippine Airlines flight for Los Angeles tonight to join her husband.
Click here to view a list of other articles written by Ronnie Nathanielsz.
Recent PhilBoxing.com In-House articles:
Kingsley “The Black Lion” Ibeh To headline historic “Legacy Nights” Inaugural Pro Boxing event in El Salvador
Tue, 16 Sep 2025Smarts over power
By Joaquin Henson, Tue, 16 Sep 2025HALL OF FAME FLIES FLAGS AT HALF-STAFF FOR TWO-DIVISION CHAMPION RICKY HATTON
Tue, 16 Sep 2025Kazakhstan tops the medal table at the inaugural World Boxing Championships 2025 thanks to victory in the final bout of the competition
Tue, 16 Sep 2025THRILLA IN MANILA GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY 13: JOE FRAZIER’S HUMBLE BEGINNINGS AS AN AMATEUR FIGHTER
By Maloney L. Samaco, Mon, 15 Sep 2025A New King, A New Challenger: Turki Alalshikh Proposes Crawford-Benavidez While Canelo Alvarez Faces Defeat with Humility
By Dong Secuya, Mon, 15 Sep 2025Highly Questionable Title Eliminator
By Teodoro Medina Reynoso, Mon, 15 Sep 2025Yoseline Perez Earns Silver Medal at Inaugural World Boxing Championships
Mon, 15 Sep 202521-year-old Filipino wins at Germany rapid chess tournament
By Marlon Bernardino, Mon, 15 Sep 2025Nagoya Nightmare: Naoya Inoue Notches One-Sided Decision over Murodjon Akhmadaliev
Mon, 15 Sep 2025Inoue’s Philippine Connection: Which Pinoy Super Bantamweight Could Challenge “The Monster?”
By Carlos Costa, Mon, 15 Sep 2025Yoseline Perez Advances to the Finals at the World Boxing Championships Perez Set to Face Chinese Taipei’s Hsiao-Wen Huang for 54-Kilogram World Title
Mon, 15 Sep 2025Canelo Gets Outboxed, Loses Undisputed Title to Crawford
By Carlos Costa, Sun, 14 Sep 2025A Masterpiece of Boxing: Terence Crawford Dethrones Canelo Alvarez in Historic Showdown
By Dong Secuya, Sun, 14 Sep 2025LEWIS CROCKER IS CROWNED THE NEW IBF WORLD WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION
Sun, 14 Sep 2025