That fight was a big challenge for me to recover from the fight against Jeff Horn. It felt like my younger days against Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto and others. “The knockout in my last fight felt good. Pacquiao, fighting for the first time since his 40th birthday last month, has selected age, and how people had reacted following his shock loss to Jeff Horn in 2017, as motivation for him to continue his career, which he himself admits he doesn’t have to do, as he’s a sitting senator in the Philippines and the sport’s only eight division world champion with nothing left to accomplish. “I cannot fly without wings, but I’m gonna bring the belt back to the Philippines,” said Fernandez. Team Pacquiao also showed that they were “gang gang”, with trainer Buboy Fernandez calling up Freddie Roach and Justin Fortune to stand with him at the podium to show they outnumbered Broner’s corner. The actual press conference was otherwise devoid of animosity, other than Cunningham’s “guarantee” that Broner would “send Manny back to the Senate beltless.” When Broner’s original trainer Mike Stafford tried to thank Pacquiao’s team at the podium, Broner shouted out “don’t thank them.” “But I can’t imagine that if you lined up 100 fighters that you’d get very many if any to say that I’m against them.”Īfter the staredown, Broner, 29, directed racial stereotypes to Filipino supporters of Pacquiao near the stage, making references to eating cats and dogs. “I’ve had a 37 year career and body of work that of course I’m not infallible and I make mistakes and maybe on occasion haven’t followed his story perfectly,” said Bernstein. Bernstein took it all in stride before closing the press conference.
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