![]() ![]() The TKO of David Diaz (’08) that showed Pacquiao had added a monstrous right hand. The battering of Marco Antonio Barrera (2003) that fully announced Pacquiao to the boxing world. The gym walls tell the story of the boxer’s and trainer’s collective rise. Pacquiao is both the oldest boxer in the photo and the only one currently fighting. ![]() The snapshot features four champions-Ruslan Provodnikov, Zou Shiming, Miguel Cotto and Pacquiao-and the trainer they once shared. There’s another picture, in the downstairs wing at Wild Card Boxing, where Roach trains elite fighters in a former laundromat. But rather his flair for perpetual reinvention. Not the nimble footwork, or the powerful left hand. “I’ve never had a fighter with so many swings,” Roach says. It’s his ability to rise and fall and rise again, to stumble in private and fall dramatically in public and return, both to the ring and the form that marked his improbable rise.Īgainst Thurman, he will climb inside the ropes for the 71st time, having both registered 39 knockouts and suffered seven losses and never failed to return. It’s the pictures that provide the answer. At this point, most wonder why Manny Pacquiao is still fighting. He’s 40 now, and set to face undefeated welterweight champ Keith Thurman on July 20 in Vegas, almost four years since many first suggested he retire, before his worst loss and another career resurgence. The boxer ruminates on all this in late June, the various turns his life has taken since he climbed the stairs to Roach’s gym 18 years ago that week, so many stages in one messy and transcendent life. He grimaces at a series of knockout shots that earned him an old nickname, the Mexecutioner. PACQUIAO CAREER TORRENT MOVIEHe laughs at a snapshot from his movie premier, when he’s clad in bright red superhero tights. He points at her long gone chubby cheeks. He stops at a picture of his daughter, now 13 years old, then 4. ![]()
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