MANILA, Philippines – Antonio Margarito is chopping wood and hasn?t skipped a beat in training. Manny Pacquiao is playing basketball and has been off the road, out of the gym a couple of times.
With exactly a month left before the fight, does this really make much of a difference?
No, it doesn?t, and it won?t, if you ask one of Pacquiao?s advisers, Rex ?Wakee? Salud.
?It?s still going to be an easy fight for Manny,? the bubbly matchmaker from Cebu told The STAR yesterday.
He said the odds, putting Pacquiao at -525 (you need $525 to win a hundred bucks) and Margarito at +325 (a hundred wins $325), speak for itself.
?Manny is the overwhelming favorite here. That?s the way I see it. Margarito?s last fight against Roberto Garcia was nothing. It proved nothing,? said Salud.
Margarito, many believe, will be too big but too slow for Pacquiao when they climb the Dallas Cowboys ring on Nov. 13 for the fight that could be over inside nine rounds.
Margarito?s trainer, Robert Garcia, said the longer the fight goes the better their chances are, and therefore he?s trying to create a battleplan that will make it possible.
