LOS ANGELES - After a full meal, Manny Pacquiao can tip the scales at around 148 to 149 pounds, according to his bosom buddy, Buboy Fernandez.
Safe and sound.
“He’s at 148 to 149. Just right on it,” said Fernandez in his hotel room at Park Plaza here in the northern side of Hollywood.
Fernandez had just unloaded his stuff from the gym after an aborted training session Friday afternoon.
Pacquiao, the pot-bellied Filipino boxing trainer said, poured it all during his morning run at Griffith Park he called it a day from there.
The eight-division champion, with the permission of his chief trainer, Freddie Roach, skipped the afternoon session at Wild Card Gym, just a couple of blocks away.
“We felt it was wise to just let him rest after that morning run. Besides, he sparred 11 rounds yesterday and will do 12 rounds tomorrow,” said Fernandez.
There’s no reason to worry.
In fact, Fernandez said everybody’s happy where Pacquiao is right now, inside two weeks to the Floyd Mayweather fight in Las Vegas.
“What he showed us earlier could be his peak condition. He ran up the mountains like he never did before,” he said.
Pacquiao covered the steep and elevated eight-kilometer terrain in just over 54 minutes.
“That was the toughest climb here. Mahirap yun. Grabe yung ginawa niya. So, we decided to give him a rest in the afternoon,” Fernandez told scribes.
“He showed that he’s at the peak of his training now,” he added.
Pacquiao will face Mayweather for all the worthy titles in the welterweight division on May 2 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Training had gone the way they want it, despite the fact that Pacquiao missed three consecutive sparring sessions last week.
“Baka ma-over (train),” said Fernandez.
Even by skipping those sessions and eating as heavy as he wants, Pacquiao had kept his weight in check.
Paccquiao eats as much when over a hundred people around him are starving themselves in a weight-loss challenge offering $10,000 to the champion.
“Bultu-bulto kung kumain (He eats a lot),” said Fernandez.
“But we’re on it. Right now he’s at 148-149,” he said.
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