Asian icon Many Pacquiao visited Japan to attend the World Basketball Conference here as a Congressman in order to invite the Word Cup event to his home country Philippines, and received an interview by our fight scribes in Tokyo on Thursday.
Q: How about your right shoulder after the surgery? A: (Rotating his shoulder) I can lift my shoulder like this. No problem any longer.
Q: You are called ?Asian hero? and greatly respected even here in Japan. A: I truly appreciate your people?s respects to me.
Q: How do you review your fight with Mayweather this May? A: He was running away all the time. I was making the fight by stalking him and believe that I deserved a victory.
Q: What?s your plan from now on? A: I?d like to concentrate my efforts on working as a politician this year, and want to fight Mayweather in a rematch. I?ll be ready for that mentally and physically next year. I?ll show a better performance against him than in the first encounter.?
Q: What do you think on the Mayweather-Berto bout in September? A: It will be a good fight as Andre Berto is fast and strong.
Pacman, one of the Philippine representatives therein, departed from Japan on Friday after giving us a good impression with his humbleness.
