KONCZ ALLAYS FEARS REGARDING PACQUIAO'S TRAINING
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Fri, 11 Oct 2013
GENERAL SANTOS CITY ? Justin Fortune or no Justin Fortune, Manny Pacquiao?s preparations for his comeback fight against Brandon Rios will go on till he climbs the ring for the first time in almost a year on November 24 in Macau.
Pacquiao?s business manager Mike Koncz assured this Wednesday by way of reacting to the uncertainty of Fortune?s arrival to rejoin the team and continue the Filipino fighter?s conditioning regimen started by assistant trainers and Buboy Fernandez and Nonoy Neri.
?No reason to panic,? Koncz asserted following Wednesday?s workout at the Pacman Wild Card Gym here. ?Buboy and Noy, especially the latter, have been doing well in getting Manny in competitive form.?
?It?s no big deal either if he doesn?t come at all, you shouldn?t even have to write about the issue,? the Canadian business manager stressed. ?Nonoy and Buboy, I believe can handle that aspect of preparations very well.?
?And with the arrival of Freddie (chief trainer Freddie Roach) , we?re sure preparations will continue to produce results as we?ve planned them,? Koncz told this writer.
Roach, besides handling the training of his boxers, also acted as conditioning coach to several of them in the past. He was expected to oversee Pacquiao?s training session in the afternoon and see for himself how his first four months of training has so far gone
Koncz attributed Fortune?s business concerns as reasons for his delayed (or, probably, non-arrival at all).
?It looks like, he has many business concerns which he cannot leave behind for several weeks in the course of supervising Manny?s conditioning requirements,? Koncz could only guess.
Fortune actually had handled the eight-division champ?s stamina-building regimen for a few years before Roach gave him the pink slip for doing things outside of his job.
Pacquiao, meanwhile, went into the motion of completing his training session Wednesday, doing 14 rounds of punching the mitts (8 rounds), and two rounds each on the heavy bag, double end and skipping rope besides spending 30 minutes on the exercise mat.
?Today?s session was relatively short, but not necessarily light as you might think,? Fernandez explained. ?Eight rounds tumagal sa mitts kasi nag-concentrate kami on the possible counter-attack Manny will have to do against whatever Rios could dish out.?
In the early morning, Pacquiao deviated from his routine roadwork at the Acharon Sports Center oval and jogged instead on the sand of his beach resort at the boundary of North Cotabato and Sarangani provinces.
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