PACQUIAO TO START TRAINING IMMEDIATELY AFTER MEDIA TOUR
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 02 Feb 2014
Manny Pacquiao and American titleholder Timothy Bradley meet for the first time after their controversial faceoff a little less than two years ago in a two-city media tour starting Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) at the posh Beverly Hotel Los Angeles.
Tuesday?s press conference, held to hype up their coming 12-round WBO welterweight title rematch, is set at 11:30 a.m. following a luncheon 30 minutes earlier at the Crystal Ballroom of the hotel, home to the brightest of the entertainment world.
Special one-on-one interviews as well as photo opportunity will granted to the international media men attending the event held under the auspices of Top rank Promotions, headed by its chief-executive-officer Bob Arum.
Also to grace the occasion are the protagonists handlers, six-time trainer of the year Freddie Roach, for the Pinoy ?Pacific Storm? and Rey Bradley for the undefeated ?Desert Storm.?
The 35-year-old Pacquiao, a congressman representing the lone district of Sarangani Province in the Lower House, is also expected to affix his signature on the dotted line of the fight contract which was earlier signed by Bradley.
Pacquiao was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles last night in time for the L.A. stop of the tour accompanied by his Congressional chief-of-staff Bren Evangelio and assistanst trainer Roger ?Haplas? Fernandez.
The two teams proceed to New York for Thursday?s leg of the tour scheduled at the New world Hotel on West 50th Street of the City that never sleeps.
Pacquiao told People?s Journal/ People?s tonight he?ll be back February 12 to immediately pitch camp in his own Pacman Wild Card Gym in hometown General Santos City.
?Magsisimula tayo agad ng preparasyon. Gaya ng laban kay Rios, importante din ang labang ito dahil gusto kong mabawi ang koronang ninakaw sa akin dalawang taon na ang nakararaan,? Pacquiao said hours before enplaning to L.A. via a Philippine Air Lines flight.
The 12-round encounter will be held at the MGM Grand, the same venue where Bradley took the WBO 147-pound belt from Pacquiao via a highly questionable split decision on June 9, 2012 made possible by the verdicts of two of three judges -- C. J. Ross and Duane Ford -- who saw that fight with Bradley the winner, 115-113, the same score submitted by Jerry Roth, who had Pacquiao the victor.
That loss, accepted though by the eight-division and four-division lineal belt-holder as ?part of the game,? was the first of back-to-back setbacks suffered by the Filipino ring hero in that year, he considered as the bleakest in his 18-year career.
He, later in that year, was knocked out cold by arch-enemy Juan Manuel Marquez in the sixth round of their December 8 quadrology but came back strong November last year with a convincing unanimous decision over Brandon Rios in Macau, China.
Bradley, on the other hand, scored a pair of impressive unanimous decision triumphs over Pacquiao?s long-time sparring partner Russian Ruslan Provodnikov and Marquez himself to somewhat earn the respect he had long been seeking for a long time and at the same time pave the way for this grudge match.
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