"My coaches have studied a tremendous amount of tape. You know, everybody has holes, and to tell you the truth, Manny has more than most, so we just gotta capitalize on those specific holes and tendencies. So far in sparring, we've had some excellent, excellent work and a lot of the things that my coaches have been strategizing have been coming to fruition," stated undefeated WBO jr. welterweight champion Chris Algieri, who recently spoke to FightHype.com about his upcoming November 22 showdown with WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao. According to Algieri, his trainers have watched enough tape on Pacquiao to come up with several holes in his game that they plan on exploiting with his style when they step into the ring.
"I'm not a guy who watches tape. I don't study tape because you can't get rhythm from a tape and boxing is a rhythm sport and I'm a rhythm fighter. I gotta figure things out as we're in there, so my coaches, they do that work. They study tape and they come up with the game plan and how we're going to fight and I enact on fight night," Algieri explained. "I'm going to go out there and I'm going to be me and I'm going to set the tone. Myself and my coaches agree, we gotta go and do the work, not counter Manny's work. I'm not going in there like, 'Well, he's gonna do this, so I'm gonna do this.' No, we don't fight like that. I'm going out there and I'm gonna set my pace and my tone and fight my fight. That's the difference, I think, between our team and a lot of other teams. We fight specifically for each opponent, but I'm gonna go out there and fight my fight."
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