BAGUIO CITY – Despite the various distractions that marked Manny Pacquiao’s four-week training here, trainer Freddie Roach expressed belief his seven-division world champion ward has gained a lot in terms of how to win his fight against Mexican Antonio Margarito set next month.
“As I have been saying, there were many distractions, but I can assure you we had survived all those and that Manny’s been getting better each day,” Roach said yesterday, the day Team Pacquiao was scheduled to resume training in Manila. 
For one, we’ve started working on our strategy. We, definitely, now how to win against that guy, who undoubtedly bigger, heftier and stronger,” Roach said by way of assessing the results of the team’s one month efforts. “He’s lagged more than half of the number of rounds we’re targeting before the actual fight day. He’d faced three taller and stronger mates, whose fighting style approximate that of Margarito,” he said in reference to world junior-welterweight champion Amir Khan, promising Glen Tapia and super-welterweight Michael Medina.
Counting yesterday’s 10-round sparring, the Pacman would have lagged no less than 80 rounds, some 40 rounds shy of Roach’s target 120 rounds.
Team Pacquiao left this summer capital late afternoon yesterday following his last day of preparations here and is scheduled to resume working out today and tomorrow at the Elorde Gym in Quezon City where he actually started his buildup program.
“Everything, including putting the reigning World Boxing Organization welterweight champ in tip-top shape will be polished when the team reach Los Angeles,” he said.
The team leaves tomorrow night for L.A.
The flurry of typhoon “Juan” which devastated Northern Luzon, including this city, somehow cancelled the routine roadwork, but Roach said Pacquiao made up for that by plyometric training being applied by conditioning coach Alex Ariza.
Ariza, for his part, said he is now focusing on the food Pacquiao is taking daily so he can grow a little heavier than his present state.
“He is between 150 to 152 pounds as of yesterday, but if we do not supplement his food intake, that would decrease considerably with the scheduled shifting of his training to high gear,” the Columbian conditioning expert said.
The Pacquiao-Margarito bout for the vacant World Boxing Council super-welterweight crown is set at catch weight 151 pounds.
He assured though that there is nothing to worry about because of Pacquiao’s capacity to adjust to his training regimen.
Source: philboxing.com
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