Oct 25 2009
Pacquiao/Cotto 24/7 – Episode 1
The show starts with footage of the press conference at Yankee Stadium last month for the fight. Pacquiao looks like he’s having fun with it, while Cotto looks like he’d rather be elsewhere.
From the looks of it, they’re going to try to tell the story that Pacquiao is now a superstar, while Cotto is more dangerous after losing to Margarito than he was before, which is very questionable.
They show Pacquiao trying to swim, and he’s not a very good swimmer. He says he drinks a lot of water.
Pacquiao is training for the fight in the Phillipines rather than LA with Roach, but there was a heavy typhoon which caused terrible floods. Roach doesn’t want to be there, but he says the same team is there so it’s no different.
Roach says that for being a world champion, Ricky Hatton wasn’t very good in looking back at the fight between Hatton and Pac earlier in the year.
Miguel Cotto’s dad says that he was sad after the Antonio Margarito loss, but Cotto himself was crying tears of blood and that no man could do that with just gloves.
Cotto says his new trainer knows his role, which says more about his last trainer, his uncle Evangelista, than it does about his new trainer.
Roach says that Pacquiao has changed a little bit along the way because of his new found success, but their relationship is still strong. Roach says Pac calls the shots.
Cotto is holding his training camp for the fight in Tampa, rather than Puerto Rico.
There was a ruckus between the camp of Pacquiao concerning who the fourth person in the corner would be. Roach says it’s just chaos and people are on edge, but it won’t affect the training camp.
Roach wants to leave so that they don’t get stuck because of the weather and Pacquiao doesn’t want to leave. Roach looks upset.
I was bored to tears for the first time ever with 24/7. Instead of building up Cotto as someone who is on Pac’s level, instead they’re trying to sell us on the fact that Pac might be getting too big. That might be all good and well, but you still need to build up Cotto as someone who can beat him. Cotto was shown getting tattoos, swimming, and getting his ass kicked by Antonio Margarito. I hope they have a better story for this fight. Cotto is a great fighter and we need to see how dangerous we is instead of seeing Manny play basketball.
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Cotto kicked his main sparring partner Gato Figueroa out of camp and we didn’t hear anything about that. Gato is a really useful sparing partner particularly when you need a small southpaw. The feeling now is that the guys he’s using instead are very inexperienced.
There seems like there is some dissension in both camps. That is certainly the word going around anyway, but as i always say in these situations, what to believe?
I guess I wasn’t sure what I was supposed to think after the first show. I guess we’re supposed to think that Manny is a little bit of a superstar and might be full of himself. But what about Cotto? Does he even have a personality?