Pacquaio Cotto 24/7

HBO’s award-winning reality series 24/7 returns with an all new four-part series. This will be the seventh installment which will be narrated by Liev Shrieber, who has narrated the franchise since it’s creation. 24/7 Pacquiao/Cotto premieres This Saturday, October 24th at 10:15 p.m. ET/PT

Episodes two and three will air on Saturdays – Oct. 31 (11:00-11:30 p.m.) and Nov. 7 (9:00-9:30 p.m.)

The finale debuts Friday, Nov. 13 (9:30-10:00 p.m.), the night before the Las Vegas fight.

All aired episodes will have multiple re-run dates on HBO, Pacquiao/Cotto 24/7 the series will also be available on HBO On Demand.

Pacquiao Returns To Heavy Training

Manny Pacquiao plunged back into training in Baguio City yesterday while Mexican trainer Nacho Beristain, who was thousands of miles away, bared his thoughts on how the Filipino pound-for-pound champion would hit Miguel Cotto "like a rocket" on Nov. 14.

Pacquiao entered his third week of training in the country’s summer capital, which was pummelled by typhoon "Pepeng" over the weekend, by doing 15 rounds of mitts with Freddie Roach and some plyometric exercises with his conditioning coach, Alex Ariza.

Pacquiao broke camp Saturday evening after sparring five rounds with Shawn Porter and Urbano Antillon. He braved the storm to take a 250-km ride to Manila and personally help distribute relief goods to victims of last week’s tropical storm "Ondoy" the other day.

Pacquiao and his entourage were back in Baguio close to midnight of Sunday. It took them longer than usual to get there because, according to one of his bodyguards, Jojo Sta. Teresa, there was "zero visibility" on the zig-zagging, cliff-hanging roads up to Baguio.

At the Shape Up Gym, it was business as usual yesterday it looked like the mitts on Roach’s hands were ready to explode.

Pacquiao resumes his sparring today with Porter and Antillon. Another sparringmate, former WBC lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo, is scheduled to fly in today to provide the extra muscle in the Pinoy icon’s camp six weeks heading to the fight on Nov. 14.

Freddie Roach Says Pacquiao Will Win

Manny Pacquiao to beat Miguel Cotto by decision? Trainer Freddie Roach is having second thoughts.

Impressed by the frenetic pace by which Pacquiao is attacking his preparations for his fight against the Puerto Rican, Roach now believes that the Filipino ring icon has what it takes to knock out the reigning World Boxing Organization welterweight champion.

"I picked him to win by decision, but until I started working with him to this camp, the way he's punching, his speed, we will knock this guy out," Roach said of Pacquiao, who announced over national television Tuesday that he was donating P1 million to relief drives for the victims of Tropical Storm "Ondoy."

"I commiserate with the victims of the tropical storm," Pacquiao told a news station in Filipino, adding that he will try to fly to Manila on Sunday during a break in training to distribute relief goods to victims of the flash sloods triggered by Ondoy. "We will be giving rice, noodles and other relief goods."

Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 knockouts) will battle Cotto (34-1, 27 KOs) over 12-rounds for the Puerto Rican's World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight crown on Nov. 14 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. Both combatants agreed to fight at a catch weight of 145 lb.

Things picked up in Team Pacquiao's preparation for that bout with sparring sessions kicking off Tuesday.

Pacquiao's sparring partners Shawn Porter and Urbano Untillon hit the Philippine summer capital yesterday, with Freddie Roach describing Porter as the one who can really mimic the Puerto Rican Cotto.

Porter, who is bigger than Cotto, moves like the Puerto Rican star. Porter, a middleweight, is listed as 5-foot-7 and owns a record of 10-0 record, with eight wins by knockout.

Antillon, a former Pacquiao sparring partner who owns a victory over the Filipino's younger brother Bobby, owns an impressive record of 26-1, with 19 knockouts.

"Basically we’re going to have a fast start and we’re not going to give [Cotto] any momentum," said Roach. "The way Manny is really fighting right now, I guess we’re going to frustrate Cotto with his speed."

Meanwhile, Jeff Mayweather, uncle of undefeated American Floyd Mayweather Jr., feels that a Pacquiao loss to Cotto will not rub off the luster from a showdown between the Filipino ring icon and the undefeated American.

"Just as long as he doesn’t lose in a devastating manner it would still be the biggest fight out there," said Mayweather.