GENERAL SANTOS CITY—Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao is not taking American boxer Shane Mosley lightly.
Pacquiao said Mosley has the speed and experience and he needs to train hard for their May 7 fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
n stressing how a good fighter Mosley is, Pacquiao said he was made to choose two different dates for the Mosley tiff, April 16 or May 7.
“I chose May 7 so I have more than enough time to prepare,” he said.
“This is not an easy fight. I need at least eight weeks to train for the Mosley fight,” Pacquiao said.
As to where the eight-week training will be conducted, Pacquiao said he has yet to speak to his coach, Freddie Roach after the holidays.
Roach has also said in several interviews that Mosley will be a tough opponent and hopes to train the Filipino ring icon for a longer period this time around.
But he added he will start “some light training” already after his long vacation.
Pacquiao was interviewed on Thursday in General Santos before his whole family flew to Boracay, where they spent Christmas.
They will stay in Boracay for a week. Afterward, the whole family will fly to Japan for a week-long vacation, then to Australia for another week-long trip.
The whole family left the city around 11 a.m. Thursday aboard a private plane for their extended foreign trips.
“We need to take a longer vacation to make the kids happy. Their father had been busy for the past months, pero sulit kasi medyo mahaba ang bakasyon namin kasama siya (but it’s worth it because now we get to spend a long time with him),” Jinkee, Pacquiao’s wife, said.
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