Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton will be training under similar weather conditions and same time zone as the two punchers will only be 300 miles apart when they enter the critical phase of their respective preparations for their scheduled May 2 brawl in Las Vegas.
Pacquiao will set up camp in the lowlands of Los Angeles in the first week of March, while Hatton will kick off the US chapter of his rigid training six or seven weeks before the fight, according to ace fight scribe Michael Rosenthal of The Ring.
Hatton’s promoter Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions (GBP) said the British bomber will be based in Las Vegas and defensive whiz Floyd Mayweather Sr. will call the shots during entire training camp period.
Both fighters have promised that they’ll start doing light training even before they head into training proper as they’ll be going on a promotional tour in London and Manchester in the United Kingdom and New York in the last week of February and Los Angeles in America in the first few days of March.
Pacquiao adviser Mike Koncz said the Filipino pound-for-pound king will be busy as a bee in the days leading to his departure for the promo tour.
"Manny’s going to have the baptismal of his daughter (Queen Elizabeth) on Feb. 22 here in General Santos," Koncz said.
Four days before that, Pacquiao will be conferred an honorary doctorate degree by Southwestern University in Cebu and on Feb 20, he will likely grace the awards night of the Philippine Sportswriters Association at the Manila Pavilion.
There’s going to be a slight delay in Pacquiao’s arrival at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood owing to the schedule of the tour, according to Arum, but he is not bothered by it.
"It’s just a few days," said Arum, whose outfit is staging the scheduled 12-round super-lightweight match in partnership with GBP.
Pacquiao is in Manila attending to some personal matters, according to Koncz.
Source: mb.com.ph
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