HOLLYWOOD, California?The punching bag at the center of Freddie Roach?s Wild Card gym shuddered violently as Manny Pacquiao unleashed a flurry of left-right combinations.
The bespectacled Roach, sitting nearby, watched his ward intently, looking amused.
?Manny is just getting better and better,? opened the American, his voice slurred. ?We?re not going to adjust to [Marco Antonio] Barrera. Barrera will adjust to us.?
Pacquiao was working on throwing solid body blows that are rarely seen in many of his previous fights. To Roach, if the chin is strong, the breadbasket almost always is weak.
