According to Strength & Conditioning coach Alex Ariza, WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is ready to get back to training for fights like he was prior to capturing the title in his impressive 11th round TKO victory over former champion Miguel Cotto. "Just left the Champ...Excited that he's ready to get to My way of training for this fight," Ariza recently posted on his official Twitter page. It's no secret that in his last few bouts - particularly against Juan Manuel Marquez and Shane Mosley - Pacquiao has complained about cramps in his legs during the fight. Ariza indicated that it was due to the fact that Pacquiao has taken more control over his own conditioning and they had gotten away from the techniques they employed in previous bouts.
"We need to go back to the basics again. We have to get back to what we did in the days we were successful and we didn't have any leg problems [cramps] and things like that," Ariza would tell Manny not long after his controversial decision over Marquez last November. "We are starting to go in reverse. Unless we get back to what we did in the beginning I don't see how we are going to progress." According to Ariza, he showed Pacquiao a list outlning "the Manny Pacquiao way and the Alex Ariza way" of conditioning, and then explained to him that in all the fights where they used the Ariza way, they never suffered any cramping. It was when Pacquiao told him, "Next time we are going to do everything your way."
It looks like Pacquiao is going to live up to that promise in his preparations for Bradley. "Mannys said this fight, he's wants to go back to focusing on building power and speed like we did before. I LIKE IT," Ariza explained on his Twitter page. "If he we train the way he's says, there well be no leg problems."