A homesick Manny Pacquiao, Ring Magazine?s featherweight champion, surprisingly returned yesterday morning from Los Angeles even as his business manager Rod Nazario was flying to Los Angeles from Florida to meet him.
Pacquiao?s wife Jinkee flew in from General Santos City at 12 noon and the two embraced as she arrived in their home in BF Homes, Para?aque.
?I was feeling homesick. I missed by wife and kids as well as my mother (Dionisia) and returned to see them. You know I am really a Mama?s boy,? said Pacquio said in an exclusive interview with Viva Sports/Manila Standard which will be telecast on the ?Main Event? on Sunday over RPN-9
Pacquiao, the universally recognized and People?s Champion following his devastating 11th-round TKO over legendary Mexican Marco Antonio Barrera last Nov. 15 in San Antonio, Texas, revealed that after a few days he will ?return to Los Angeles to continue my preparation for my next fight? which is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 27 or Dec. 4 in Manila.
Pacquiao expressed the hope that the planned fight with World Boxing Organization Intercontinental Champion Gairy St. Clair of Australia would push through so he ?won?t get rusty because I have a rematch with Juan Manuel Marquez in February. ?
Pacquiao pointed out that the World Boxing Association/International Boxing Federation champion had a title defense against Orlando Salido in preparation for the rematch while he remained idle. Pacquiao said he had been ?training very hard and sparring with big guys? at the Wild Card Gym of trainer Freddie Roach.
Although his left hand, which was injured early in the fight against Marquez last May ?doesn?t hurt anymore,? there was a slight pain near his left wrist which he believed was caused by battering the heavier sparring partners.
