{"id":28972,"date":"2014-10-15T15:43:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T07:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28972"},"modified":"2014-10-15T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T09:19:31","slug":"pacquiao-on-top-of-his-game-says-roach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/15\/pacquiao-on-top-of-his-game-says-roach\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacquiao on top of his game says Roach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12807\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12807\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"People's Champ and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao. Photo by Chris Farina \/ Pacquiao's official Facebook page\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Manny-Pacquiao2.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People&#8217;s Champ and Sarangani Representative Manny Pacquiao. Photo by Chris Farina \/ Pacquiao&#8217;s official Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Freddie Roach believes that boxing champ Manny Pacquiao is still at the top of his game the moment he stepped into the ring for his first mitts session.<\/p>\n<p>Roach added that Pacquiao\u2019s skills and reflexes are still sharp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo slippage, not even a bit,\u201d Roach said after working out with the eight-division world champion on Monday afternoon at Pacman Wild Card Gym.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s happy and still hungry (for training). No worries, whatsoever,\u201d he said in reference to Pacquiao\u2019s upcoming fight against Chris Algieri onNovember 23 at Macao.<\/p>\n<p>Roach has been Pacquiao\u2019s trainer since 2001. Thus, they have a deep familiarization with each other. As a matter of fact, Roach treats the boxing icon like his son.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the showdown against Algiera, Roach said that 90 rounds as opposed to 150 rounds of sparring will be enough to get Pacquiao into the groove.<\/p>\n<p>According to the six-time Trainer of the Year, all that Pacquaio needs is to \u201cfind his range and timing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Freddie Roach believes that boxing champ Manny Pacquiao is still at the top of his game the moment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2031],"class_list":["post-28972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-pacquiao","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}