Tuesday, September 25, 2007 No spy can stop Barrera on a mission
TO SHUN defeat is the only motivation that Mexican three-division champion Marco Antonio Barrera has to beat Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao on Oct. 6 (Oct. 7 RP time) at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Resort Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada in the US.
For four years, Barrera admitted that what Pacquiao did to him back in 2003 was torturing him all the time and he is aching for a vengeance inside the ring.
“Manny Pacquiao has been an ugly painful thorn in my side for nearly four years. There hasn’t been a day since our first fight that I haven’t thought of Pacquiao and what I would do to him if we ever fought again” Barrera said in an interview with doghouseboxing.com
In his training camp, Barrera has only one person in mind-Pacquiao-and revenge is his only agenda.
“These past four years have been torture for me as Pacquiao has done everything he could to avoid me. But once we signed the contracts to fight, I have done nothing else but eat, drink and dream of Manny Pacquiao,” said Barrera.
Both fighters enter the final week of their training—with Pacquiao putting the finishing touches of his eight-week training at the Wild Card gym in Los Angeles, California while Barrera is finalizing his camp in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Barrera has promised that this fight will be his last of the same magnitude, but would fight two more fights against lesser mortals in Guadalajara and Texas.
Barrera belittled Freddie Roach’s statements that he had a “spy” amid the Mexican’s camp that accounts the progress of his training.
“Tell Freddie Roach that secret tapes of my training and so-called secret weapons like ‘The Marco Bolo’ or ‘Manila Ice’ cannot stop a Marco Antonio Barrera who is on a mission. As I said before, this goes beyond being personal. For me, this fight is about restoring national pride. Vengeance will be mine,” Barrera stressed.
However, Barrera admitted that he is yet to win at the Mandalay Bay, where he dropped his first fight against bitter rival Erik Morales and against Juan Manuel Marquez last March.
And he is confident that he can break that jinx by beating Pacquiao in the card dubbed as the “Will To Win.” (RCM)
