2012 ?Trainer of the Year? Robert Garcia says Brandon ?Bam Bam? Rios will try to turn his fight against ?Fighter of the Decade? Manny Pacquiao into a brawl.
Garcia made the statement during an international conference call from the his boxing academy gym in Oxnard.
He said ?I think if we were getting ready to outbox Manny it would be trying. Everybody knows how Brandon fights and nothing is going to change Brandon. That?s what we are going to do. We are going to try to make it into a brawl. That?s the only way Brandon fights and that?s the only way Brandon knows how to fight so there is nothing else we can do. That?s what we have to do.?
Rios appeared unconcerned over claims that he would be a punching bag for Pacquiao because of his come-forward style.
He said ?It?s OK ? everybody looks at me as a punching bag. But that?s all right, Robert and I are going in with a great game plan and we are going to shock the world and show them what kind of a fighter I am. We are just ready, man. To be honest with you, I don?t care what people think, if I have a chance or not. I am just going to prove everybody wrong. And that?s good; they are not giving me credit. That makes me train harder and gives me the drive to show them and shut them up.?
Garcia said he and his Dad had ?put together a great game plan for Rios and we have been watching the Pacquiao tapes together. That is something that everybody expects us to do and we just might do that. We don?t know what Pacquiao has coming out. But we also have to be smart. We just can?t jump in there and think we are going to be the better guy that night. No, we have to be ready for the best Pacquiao. For him, it?s do or die so we have to be ready for the best Pacquiao. We can?t go in there thinking it?s going to be easy. Our game plan has turned out really good. If Brandon follows instructions and does everything we tell him to do, the sparring partners have been very helpful, so we should come out with good results.?
Photo: Brandon "Bam Bam" Rios (R) talks with undefeated former WBO featherweight champion Mikey Garcia (ctr) and Nonito "Filipino Flash" Donaire (L) at the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy in Oxnard, CA Tuesday. Rios is preparing for his upcoming mega fight against superstar Manny Pacquiao at The Venetian Macao Resort in Macau, China which will be televised live in the US, Saturday, Nov. 23, 9pm ET/6pm PT on HBO Pay-Per-View. Garcia takes on two-time WBO junior lightweight champion ROMAN "Rocky" MARTINEZ while Donaire battles Vic "Raging Bull" Darchinyan, Saturday, November 9 from the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas, televised live on HBO Boxing After Dark?, beginning at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT.
Photo: Chris Farina - Top Rank.
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