Baguio City is ideal camp for Manny - Alex Ariza

MANILA, Philippines – Conditioning coach Alex Ariza thinks it's more convenient for Manny Pacquiao to hold his training camp in Baguio City.

Pacquiao is set for a November 12 fight against Juan Manuel Marquez and is likely to hold high-altitude training again in the City of Pines.

"It served really well for us, I thought it did," Ariza said in Fighthype.com. "It's a good place. I like the Philippines for a camp a lot."

Baguio City has been Pacquiao's favorite training camp since the Miguel Cotto fight.

Ariza said it was easier for him to monitor Pacquiao's progress in Baguio because they were all billeted in the same place.

"His camp is inside the hotel. My room is a few rooms down from Manny's so I don't have the same problems there that I have here in LA, you know, because our houses are so far apart, the traveling, and this and that, and waking him up, or being able to supervise his eating," said the conditioning coach.

He added that everything is all taken care of as far as their training needs are concerned.

"We have everything there. Freddie bought all the stuff years ago during the Cotto camp. All of our training equipment, our conditioning equipment, we had it all shipped up there, so we have all that stuff there and it's just easy to just get up, knock on the door, and go right downstairs and get to it," said Ariza.

Pacquiao will begin training following his global press tour to promote the Marquez fight.

He is expected to hold half of his camp in Baguio City.

The other half will be concluded at Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles, California.

Source: abs-cbnnews.com