On Saturday night, Manny Pacquiao and his trainer, Freddie Roach touched down in Los Angeles to begin the final leg of their preparations for their November 13th battle with Antonio Margarito at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas, Texas. They are three weeks from that fight and Roach isn?t just merely happy to be back in Southern California after more than a month in the Philippines.
“Thrilled,” he told Maxboxing on Monday morning at his familiar haunts of the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, California. “The Philippines, the typhoons, distractions, it?s just too much bullsh*t.”
Life on Planet Pacquiao is always filled with a bit of turmoil and unrest. Now, the fact that he?s a congressman only complicated matters, according to the respected trainer.
“The thing is, it was just too many distractions,” said Roach. “When Manny Pacquiao trains, nobody trains better. So really, we didn?t have a bad training camp; he just wasn?t every consistent. E
