“I gotta tell you, sometimes people think that they can get into this sport and they think that they can go ahead and just make the transfer into what they’re doing on the outside and bring it into this side, but it just doesn’t work like that. I mean, this is just a wierd sport, the only sport in the world where you don’t have timeouts, you don’t have breaks outside that one minute; it’s hard. You have to prepare yourself and you have to train differently than any other sport in the world, so, again, I don’t know how they’re training him and I don’t know why Marquez got so big so fast, but, okay, you know, we’re ready for it. I know what our guys do and what my guy does and muscles don’t win fights,” stated Manny Pacquiao’s world-class strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza, who shared his thoughts on the bigger and more ripped up physique of Juan Manuel Marquez and how he thinks that will impact the November 12 showdown. Check it out!
BT: Alex, what up my man?
AA: Ben, what’s up brotha? Same ol’, same ol’, just busy as hell.
BT: I bet, man. I know you got fights with Manny, Julio and Amir all right around the corner and I definitely want to touch on those, but first and foremost, yo, I didn’t know you could spit Spanish so fluently.
AA: Oh, yeah, well I’m from Columbia (laughing).
BT: I didn’t even know that, man. I saw you in the corner with Liranes spittin’ that Spanish and was like, damn, I’m going to have to start calling you Alex Arrrriza (laughing).
