Pacquiao?s focus impresses Jinkee
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 03 May 2012
BAGUIO CITY ? If there?s somebody who is so much impressed with the way Manny Pacquiao has been conducting himself in his training camp here, it?s his wife Jinkee.
Jinkee, who has been here since lasts week to lend support to his husband, expressed no doubt the World Boxing Organization 147-pound title belt will remain in these shores after he shall have disposed of his undefeated American challenger Timothy Bradley.
?Yeah, I have no doubt Manny will emerge the winner against Bradley when they meet June 9,? the pretty spouse of the eight-division champion said in an interview with Malaya Business Insight last Tuesday while watching her husband spar with a pair or Russian mates.
Jinkee said she is basing her prediction on how the Baguio camp, which officially closes tomorrow, went with nary a distraction to Pacquiao?s training regimen.
?The camp opened without any hitch and it looks like it will end sans the things that distracted him in his previous camp,? Jinkee assured.
?Manny now, in fact, is the Manny of old during the times he was lording it over tough opponents in the likes of legendary Oscar De La Hoya, Marco Antonio Barrera, Erik Morales, to mention a few,? Jinkee reminisced.
?No more night outings after training. Nor attending this and party in the middle of preparations. And more especially, no more gambling which more often than not distracted his attention.?
?Wala na rin yung tismis na nakikipag-date siya sa kung kani-kaninong babae. Na nagka-anak siya sa kung kani-kaninong babae,? she added. ?Manny has really changed, I tell you.?
Jinkee, of course was referring to Pacquiao?s self-proclaimed abandonment of all the vices he was associated with before he resorted to Bible-reading and preaching.
?Three weeks siya dito sa Baguio, ni hindi rin siya naglaro ng basketball na alam naman natin na kinalolokohan niya outside of boxing,? she said.
Jinkee said members of the Pacman?s organization believed to have driven him to get involved in vices, like those giving him women, egging him to play poker nightly, gamble on billiards games and engaged in cock-raising and cock-fighting have been and soon will be sacked.
?I am very thankful nga na the distractions that came his way lately like the income tax thing, criminal charges allegedly filed against him medyo nawala na sa eksena,? she said.
?Sana nga mahinto na nang tuluyan o kaya pansamantala hanggang matapos ang laban,? she said. ?Sabagay, hindi naman nadi-distract si Manny sa mga yun. But you see, hindi naman si Manny lang ang sinisira nila eh.?
?Pati and bansa natin nadadamay, Jinkee remarked.?That is really what saddened him. Those people might not realize it but these attempts destroy Manny are, on the contrary, destroying the country as well as the entire Filipino people instead?
?Actually, ang masyadong naapektuhan ang pamilya. Me and our children. Kaming hindi naniniwala nandadaya siya sa pagbabayad ng buwis. Kaming hindi naniniwala na smuggler siya ng ng used clothing under the guise of relief goods? Jinkee bewailed.
?Alam mo, hindi rin naman biro-biro ang mga ipinamimigay ni Manny na tulong sa mga taong nangangailangan. Donasyon dito, donasyon doon sa mga may sakit, sa namamatayan. Sa ospital at iba?t-ibang institution. Kaya masakit para sa amin, di ba?? she lamented.
?But as I have been saying, may mga tao na kaming nag-a-asikaso ng mga yun para malinis ang kanyang pangalan,? she said.
PHOTO above - The author with Jinkee Pacquiao,BELOW ? PACQUIAO INSIDE HIS TRAINING CAMP IN BAGUIO (photos by Wendell Rupert Alinea)
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