Pacquiao does not want some rest
LAS VEGAS— Manny Pacquiao pleads for more workouts though his corner wants to stop. That is the only problem Team Pacquaio faces on the final day of Pacquiao’s training for his bout against Miguel Cotto on Saturday at the MGM Grand.
Pacquiao worked four rounds with the mitts then hitting the double-end and the speedball and skipping rope. He went crunches for cooling down.
But Cotto seems to have weight problems with plans to move the time of the weigh-in two hours later to give the Puerto Rican more time to shed off excess pounds. Cotto spent his last training day in a high-temperature room, to help him get rid of excess weight according to some news. Team Cotto recently issued a moratorium on replying to questions about weight.
Pacquiao, who is expected to fight at 149 pounds, weighed 146 later in the evening, after he had eaten his dinner, Ariza, Pacquiao’s conditioning coach, revealed.
Pacquiao and Cotto will weigh in Saturday at the Garden Arena of the MGM Grand. The Filipino is expected to make the 145-pound catch weight easily, something that cannot be said—yet—of his Puerto Rican foe.
The fight contract includes a clause that a boxer will be penalized $1 million for every pound he registers above the catch weight.
Roach has said he will pull the plug on the fight if Cotto comes in more than two pounds over 145.
“It’s really not important to me what the boxing world wants to see,” Cotto said in sit-down interview with reporters. “I am not going home without winning this fight.”
Let’s just wait if Manny Pacquiao can grab a seventh title in a seventh division.
News and photo from Inquirer.net
