Pacquiao remains cool, composed as fight nears

Pacquiao remains cool, composed as fight nears

Manny Pacquiao was in his favorite gangster get-up on a drizzling day that he
spent whiling away time with his friends, looking and behaving very much like
the sinister crime chief that has been immortalized in print and in
film.
Pacquiao, who stakes his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight
crown against Joshua Clottey at Cowboys Stadium in Dallas this Saturday night,
was on hand to personally award the participants of a four-week weight reduction
program and for a few moments, his mind was not on the task at hand but on
giving his friends something to remember for a long time.
It was only during
a brief instance inside his room at the Palazzo where Pacquiao was forced to
talk about his upcoming fight, sounding very calm and composed even though it
happens in less than a week before a crowd that is expected to number
45,000.
“We‘re ready,” said Pacquiao in between composing text messages in
his Blackberry. “There’s nothing more that we can do except maintain my current
condition.”