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PACMAN IN NON-STOP WORKOUT AT WILD CARD!
By Salven L. Lagumbay
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 26 Nov 2008
LOS ANGELES--World boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao continues to dazzle and puzzle even those closest to him as he seems to get stronger by the day with just less than two weeks left before he wages battle with the legendary Oscar De la Hoya on December 6 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Pacquiao was apparently fired up after reading a report that he continues to be the underdog in the upcoming 12-round duel.
The MGM Sportsbook, when visited the other day, indicated that De la Hoya is pegged as a minus 185 favorite to frustrate Pacquiao, while the fire-breathing Filipino fighter is at plus 155 to defeat the Golden Boy of boxing.
Yesterday, those figures seemed to have ignited the fire in Pacquiao's belly, as he did an eye-popping 33 rounds of workout under trainer Freddie Roach and Filipino trainers Buboy Fernandez and Nonoy Neri.
The Pacman hit the mitts for 15 rounds, shadow-boxed for 4 rounds, hit the speed ball for 3 rounds, another 3 rounds with the double-end ball, skipped ropes for 3 rounds, and capped it with another 5 rounds of shadow-boxing.
"The stamina is just endless. People are just amazed where he got all those energies," said a source when contacted by this writer.
Meanwhile, Pacquiao stated that he had watched the recent Ricky Hatton-Paulie Malignaggi fight, and expressed interest in fighting Hatton although he is focused on the task ahead against De la Hoya.
"I watched the fight between Hatton and Malignaggi," Pacquiao told boxing.fanhouse.com yesterday. "I'm ready to fight Hatton but right now I'm just focused on my next fight and I don't want to do something that would affect my training for my next fight."
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