While Manny Pacquiao and his wife Jinkee filed their Certificate of Candidacy in Sarangani Province for the upcoming 2013 Philippine elections, his longtime and trusted buddy and assistant trainer, Buboy Fernandez, is busy studying tapes and formulating a game plan for the 8-Division World Champ in beating nemesis Juan Manuel Marquez when they tangle a fourth time on December 8 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Fernandez stated their keys to success in beating Marquez, and emphasized the importance of solving Marquez’s counter-punching. ?We?re always on the offensive and often times we forget to defend that?s why Marquez?s punches get through,” Fernandez told our good friend Snow Badua of PTV Sports.
Fernandez is confident with Pacquiao’s abilities, and believes that they will have a solution to counter Marquez’s counter-punching. ?We are studying how we can fix some issues, but we don?t need to change our ?National Fist?. The power is already there. The speed is already there. We can work on his movement, but the most important thing is how we?re going to handle Marquez?s counter-punching,” Fernandez said.
Video: Buboy Fernandez shared blueprint in beating Juan Manuel Marquez
To help achieve this, Fernandez lauded the idea of scrapping Baguio, and Philippines as a whole, as part of their training camp. Stating the obvious, Fernandez said that there are more distractions when Pacquiao trains in the Philippines. ?When you?re at the Wild Card with coach Freddie (Roach), there are no more excuses. Once you get in the ring at the Wild Card, there are no more excuses and you have to concentrate on the job at hand.?
Baguio City Mayor, Mauricio Domogan expressed his sadness in behalf of Baguio City’s tourism exploits, but also said that a win by Pacquiao is what matters the most. “The important thing is that he (Pacquiao) can focus and win. It’s their discretion where they can achieve that, but as you saw in the Bradley fight when he trained in Baguio, he showed a good performance, but unfortunately the judges did that to him, which is out of our hands,” said Domogan.
Team Pacquiao will continue their training camp in Manila on October 8, then leave for the US on October 13.
