ARRIVING during the weekend, Sarangani representative and eight weight division champion Manny Pacquiao starts the tough four week grind in the Summer Capital for his upcoming bout.
With Freddie Roach already touching down Baguio City as early as Wednesday, Pacquiao together with conditioning coach Alex Ariza and other members of the team has formally opened training camp as he prepares against junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley.
Pacquiao?s WBO welterweight belt will be on the line come June 9 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Roach arrived in the Philippines last week and has already started training British boxer Amir Khan, who has an upcoming bout of his own on May 19 against Lamont Peterson.
Meanwhile, the Baguio City Police office has earlier assured the People?s champ and his entourage security as soon as they arrive in the Summer Capital who will have their high altitude training for at least four weeks.
This will be the fourth time Pacquiao will train here in Baguio City since opening camp in 2009 where he fought Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto, returned for training for Antonio Margarito in 2010 and prepared for three weeks against arch nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez.
At least three sparring partners will be brought in for the duration of the camp according to philboxing.com that will resemble Bradley?s style.
One of them is Rusian Provodnikov who owns an impressive 21-0 record with 14 knockouts.
The Russian banger will be arriving in Manila on April 24 from Beryozovo, Siberia while the two unnamed sparring partners will rendezvous with the group in Los Angeles.
Although the tough training camp has yet to formally start, the 33-year-old eight-division title holder has started to roadwork in Sta. Rosa in Laguna two weeks ago. 3 Pacquiao?s camp will be preparing the lawmaker cum slugger to get back to his hard-punching ways against Bradley who has not had a knockout victory since demolishing Miguel Cotto via a 12th round technical knockout in 2009.
