PAC/Cotto 24/7 episode 1

[Diane]

Is it just me or does Cotto's training seem....blah. He just slowly hits the mitts and the bags...with some jump rope in between. Obviously, they arent showing everything...but the early clips show a slow pace. Plus, every time they show his trainer, i get a bit nervous. The guy is so young! Tactics will be huge in this fight...i just hope Cotto's trainer has the experience to have a great game plan.

Cotto never likes to give anything away when he's being filmed. If HBO manages to film him doing some heavy work, I'll actually be surprised, because he is usually so controlled in what he lets get out in to the public, and for his opponent to a peek at.

[zhubin]

Is it just me or does Cotto's training seem....blah. He just slowly hits the mitts and the bags...with some jump rope in between. Obviously, they arent showing everything...but the early clips show a slow pace. Plus, every time they show his trainer, i get a bit nervous. The guy is so young! Tactics will be huge in this fight...i just hope Cotto's trainer has the experience to have a great game plan.

Cotto never likes to give anything away when he's being filmed. If HBO manages to film him doing some heavy work, I'll actually be surprised, because he is usually so controlled in what he lets get out in to the public, and for his opponent to a peek at.

That's good to know. He looks intense as always...i love the guys game face.

[amat]

The production quality by HBO is worth it alone. I actually really liked last night, but that Cotto introduction with the African music during his warmup gave me chills. I am so fucken pumped for this fight. This deserves about 20 times the publicity that other fights involving the De La Hoyas and Hattons of the world versus Pac and Mayweather. This is an outstanding matchup. Cotto looks solid, go Cotto.

[Kev]

I'm looking forward to the fight, it's great to see Miguel much more confident in talking English now, both he and Manny have made great progress in this area which will surely make them more marketable.

Also, in a completely non gay, I have to agree with Diane that Miguel is one damn fine looking man.

[Taeth]

I'm surprised nobody is talking about whats going on in Pacquiao's camp, he's acting like a spoiled cunt(we can say cunt on here can't we?). He should listen to Roach, and I don't know why he pushing things to the limit between them.

[killersheep]

I'm surprised nobody is talking about whats going on in Pacquiao's camp, he's acting like a spoiled cunt(we can say cunt on here can't we?). He should listen to Roach, and I don't know why he pushing things to the limit between them.

These rumors come out before all of Pac's fights. "He's distracted", "fighter x got the better of him in sparring" , "he's not listening to Roach"

Thing is, every fight he comes in phenomenal shape and follows Roach's gameplan to a tee.

[Taeth]

I've watched Pacquiao-Hatton 24/7 and Pacquiao-De La Hoya 24/7, and this never happend for either of those fights. What the media says is one thing, but you can clearly see the frustration, Roach has always denied the reports, but in these episodes you can clearly see how angry he is.

[Conrad]

Also, in a completely non gay, I have to agree with Diane that Miguel is one damn fine looking man.

Gotta agree there Bilbo.

Last night in an attempt to get my girlfriend excited about staying up til the wee hours to watch boxing I said 'Yeah you'll love it, the one guy named Miguel is really hot, great body and cool tattoos too!!'

She just looked at me with a worried frown across her face. I was about to google image him to prove it but figured I'd quit while possibly ahead...

[Kirkland Laing]

I didn't watch the Mayweather Marquez one and I'm not going to watch this one either. I've lost interest in thw whole 24/7 thing. I just want to see the fight, screw the commercial.

[Taeth]

THe one thing I hate is that they used to show way more training, it really gets me pumped for my training and the fight when they show how hard the guys are working out, hopefully they will focus more on that as it goes along, and I can't stand all the focus on the family and such, that's what I don't care about.

[Diane]

The production quality by HBO is worth it alone. I actually really liked last night, but that Cotto introduction with the African music during his warmup gave me chills. I am so fucken pumped for this fight. This deserves about 20 times the publicity that other fights involving the De La Hoyas and Hattons of the world versus Pac and Mayweather. This is an outstanding matchup. Cotto looks solid, go Cotto.

Are you talking about the shot when they first switch to his training camp, when he has hair on his head, and he pops up into the camera shot, and they have him moving in slow motion towards the camera? If so, I'm right there with you, I actually got goosebumps with that, and still do when I keep watching it.

Okay, I'll confess, I've watched this a few times now, and I have to praise the genius who came up with the quick 10 second rewind button on my DVR remote. Every time I watch this, I've hit that button probably at least 25 times at the scene when Miguel gets out of the pool.

[Truth]

The Pac Roach feud is surely all promo Pac will be ready to go on the 14th

[Taeth]

I hope so the times they said Pacquiao wasn't training hard were the Larios fight and the Barrera fight, and those weren't good enough performances to beat Cotto.

[AirJordanIV]

I enjoyed this episode very much. I think the display of both the Filipino and Puerto Rican cultures were a breath of fresh are to the 24/7 series. The soundtrack was awesome. I think I heard the song "El Cantante" and also a song played during the pool hall scene in "Carlito's Way." Sick! The Filipinos are a strong people and I pray for there road to recovery. Crazy how the group of folks were surfing down a river on a pile of banana leaves. The turmoil in Pac camp: usual Pac camp drama. Definitely concerned about Cotto's young trainer but Cotto's been training himself for awhile so I think he'll be ok. Also thought the Castillo segment was cool.