MANILA, Philippines ? Acclaimed trainer Freddie Roach admitted that boxer-congressman Manny Pacquiao, is not yet in tip-top shape, two weeks after they kicked off their Baguio City training camp.
?The direction I want him to move is a little better. The stuff we were doing yesterday came through today. He?s not 100 percent; we still have a long way to go,? Roach told Ted Lerner of Ring Magazine.
But he commended his prized fighter, saying that his timing was a little better.
?We?re just beginning to get the game plan down and get the timing and so forth. He did what I wanted him to do a couple of times. It?s a work in progress,? he added.
The four-time Trainer of the Year also mentioned that it is normal for Pacquiao not to be in superb form at this point.
?If that Manny Pacquiao went into a fight, we?d probably lose. But that?s why we have an eight-week training camp, so we can improve. You can?t exp
