Los Angeles ? Under searing late spring heat that swept the city, they broke camp, packed and awaited the journey for the desert for what has long been regarded as a date with destiny for Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao.
“All the hard work?s done and over with and it?s time to move on,” said his equally-famous American trainer Freddie Roach.
That was close to two months of pounding the hard pavement of the hilly side of Hollywood at dawn and doing volumes of physical regimen in and outside the ring and punishing a slew of heavier sparmates from high noon till mid-afternoon at the Wild Card Gym along Sunset and Vine.
