NO WAY. Manny Pacquiao can never prepare for his next fight as sufficiently hard as he did against Marco Antonio Barrera last year.
So, now that it’s official Pacquiao will be facing Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez, WBA/IBF featherweight champ, what would you do if you happen to be the chief handler of the country’s top sports treasure?
You would waste no time. You would send Pacquiao to the one place that has catapulted him to world stardom: Freddie Roach’s famous World Boxing Club off Vine Street in Hollywood.
That exactly was what Rod Nazario, Pacquiao’s business manager and assigned worrier, had tried to do: put Pacquiao on the first plane to California.
No luck.