Promoter Bob Arum watched Manny Pacquiao spar nine rounds on Saturday in Baguio and he was not bowled over by his cash cow’s performance.
?Satisfactory? was Arum’s rating of the sparring session with Glen Tapia and Michael Medina. More importantly, Coach Freddie Roach was OK with how Pacman did.
Sparring is the most overrated aspect of a fighter’s training. If I replaced the word ?sparring? with practice, I think you would get my point.
Pacquiao is not supposed to slugging away with his hired hands in a simulation of what will happen in the ring at Cowboys Stadium on Nov. 13.
Sure, Pacquiao could beat both Tapia and Medina like a pair of drums but for what purpose?
Pacquiao said that they are now going to concentrate on speed and that is how things should be with the fight a little less than four weeks away.
Meanwhile, every day new reports come out of Camp Margarito about how awesome, how sensational Margarito is looking.
Did you expect anything less, anything less than glowing reports?
If people knew and understood that Margarito’s best chance is not of winning, but of claiming a moral victory for lasting the 12 round limit, it would not stimulate ticket sales at Jerry Jones
