American trainer Freddie Roach said that ?speed and power will win it for Manny (Pacquiao) and Erik Morales has no shot? when they clash in a blockbuster pay-per-view fight card at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on March 19.
Roach made the statement in a TV interview with former Viva Sports TV host Jannelle So.
?Pacquiao is getting there. We have a few weeks left and we are not in full form right now. Next week, we?ll be pushing him harder and harder. I just don?t want him to start too early and overtrain for the fight,? said Roach.
Roach, who started working on developing Pacquiao?s right during preparations for the Fahsan 3K Battery fight last Dec. 11, said: ?He has a good right hand and he just needs a little more confidence in it. We are just pushing hard, training hard, concentrating on both hands. We have a little bit of strategy on how to deal with this guy (Morales.) Head movement is a big part of it, not just sitting in front of this guy and exchanging punches with him.?
Roach indicated he was pleased with how things are going for Pacquiao, adding ?everything is right on schedule.?
The 2003 Trainer of the Year said that Pacquiao ?is a hard guy to work with because he punches so hard and he?s got speed.?
International promoter Murad Muhammad said reports reaching him from watchers in the gym indicated that Pacquiao has been battering his sparring partners including Mexican Javier Garcia, 16-year-old Armenian Hovannes Mergaryan and another Mexican, Fernando Beltran.
