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Pacquiao?s conditioning will beat Marquez

By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Tue, 01 Nov 2011



Alex Ariza, Manny Pacquiao?s strength and conditioning coach, countered statements coming from the camp of Juan Manuel Marquez that Chapter III will be the most difficult for the Filipino boxing hero.

On the contrary, the nutrition science graduate contended, the Pacquiao-Marquez III encounter on November 12 (November 13 in Manila) in Las Vegas, could be the hardest for the 38-year-old Mexican legend; And the world lightweight champion himself and his team, who will be trying to strip the eight-division champion of his World Boxing Organization welterweight title, will have to be blamed for what looms to be another debacle.

?I don?t know, but I think they got Marquez so big in so short a time,? Ariza noted. ?I?m not in his camp, so I can?t speak for them, but the thing is,I would never get my guy that big (in that span), that fast because you never know how they?re going to respond to carrying that kind of weight when it comes to a fight. Marquez put on a lot of size really quick.?
Ariza said that is one of the reasons why he thinks the fight will not last the full 12 rounds because Marquez will not be able to outlast Pacquiao in a conditioning race that long.

?It?s just cannot happen,? Ariza told Malaya Business Insight in an interview over the weekend.. ?Let alone with Manny. So, if they know what they?re doing, that shouldn?t be an option really.?

What Marquez should do, he suggested, is to come out blazing in the first three rounds, hoping that he can catch Pacquiao cold and somehow get lucky.

?Outside of that, he?s not going to beat Manny. He?s not going to beat Manny any other way,? Ariza, who played baseball in his college days in Bogota, Colombia, projected. ? That, of course would be a big gamble because if he fails to control, Manny will dominate him.?

Commenting on Marquez?s hiring athletic trainer Angel Hernandez, conditioning coach of Jamaican world sprint king Usain Bolt, Ariza said he is good but expressed doubts on what he could do in that short span of time.

?Sometimes, people think they can get into the sport of boxing and just make the transfer of what they do in other sports. It just doesn?t work that way,? he said. ?Boxing is a weird sport, the only sport where you don?t have timeouts. Here, you don?t have breaks outside of the one minute allowed in between rounds.?

?You have to prepare yourself. You have to train long and differently than other sports, ? he emphasized. ?Again, I don?t how they?re training Marquez. I don?t know why Marquez got that big so fast. What I can say though is that we?re ready for it. I know what we?re doing in our camp. I know what our guy does and can do.?

?I have been saying this and I?ll say it again, muscles don?t win fights. It?s the manner by which you build muscles that could win fights,? he added rather philosophically. ?Manny did it gradually, slowly.

Ariza was referring to Pacquiao?s systematic climb from the super-featherweight, his division when he last fought Marquez in 2008, to lightweight, light-welterweight and welterweight.


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