Los Angeles – Manny Pacquiao plans to befuddle then stop Ricky Hatton dead in his tracks come May 2 in Las Vegas.
“He’ll get dizzy with all these moves I am going to show on fight night,” said Pacquiao on Friday afternoon, throwing punches in the air, bobbing and weaving as he discusses some of the moves with Buboy Fernandez, his longtime friend and one of his cornermen.
Fernandez will be in charge of Pacquiao’s training while top trainer Freddie Roach is away in Puerto Rico with Michael Moorer also expected to lend a hand while the Wild Card guru is out of town.
Pacquiao had just completed a power-packed nine-round session with the mitts, leaving Fernandez not only gasping for air at the end of the workout but complaining of the wicked pain on his left hand that he blamed on Pacquiao’s power.
It’s hard to describe the feeling because it hurts so bad,” said Fernandez, his left hand twitching from the punishment that it took from Pacquiao’s main weapon, his left straight.
“You won’t believe that a punch can cause so much pain,” said Fernandez, who will preside again over Saturday’s training session since Roach will only be back on Sunday, just in time for Pacquiao’s last heavy workout on Monday and his party’s departure for Sin City in the afternoon.
Pacquiao will spar for five rounds with Uzbek Alisher Rahimov and David Rodela then add four more on Monday for a grand total of 149 rounds. As in the past, Pacquiao will start the sparring day with a light run around Pan Pacific Park, a scenic spot near his apartment unit at The Palazzo in La Brea then head back there for breakfast and some rest.
“Manny is all set for the fight,” said Fernandez, who made his US debut in Pacquiao’s corner when Pacquiao halted Jorge Julio of Colombia in June 2002 at the Pyramid Arena in Memphis.
Pacquiao kicked off training camp in the first few days of March, fresh from a whirlwind promotional tour of London and Manchester.
Pacquiao has had seven sparring partners, most of whom he either knocked down or beat up, making Roach and the entire training team even more confident that Hatton doesn’t stand a chance.
Roach has even gone too far of saying that Pacquiao is going to put Hatton away in three rounds or less.
Source: mb.com.ph
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