Business not as usual for Pacquiao in Baguio

Pacquiao vs Bradley - The Cooyeesan Hotel in Baguio City, Philippines has been Manny Pacquiao's training camp headquarters for the past three years, but this camp is different. Pacquiao vs Bradley Tickets.

Gone are the late nights and vices that Pacquiao says he has given up in the wake of becoming a Born Again Christian. In their place are nightly bible studies, which Pacquiao opens with a medley of spiritual hymns. Manny's wife Jinkee stands right beside him, singing in the chorus. Pacquiao vs Bradley.

The processions are attended by locals from the mountain community six hours north of Manila, and on some nights more than 100 people are in the auditorium singing along. Religion, like Pacquiao himself, has been a source of hope to the impoverished citizens of the archipelago nation.

"Being born again of the spirit is not about my boxing career, it's about my life, my salvation," said Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38 knockouts). "I want to have eternal life and this boxing is just my job. I pray not only myself also I praying for my family."

Also gone are the marathon basketball games at the hotel's gymnasium, where Pacquiao would play 40 minute games after completing his workouts for the day. Freddie Roach, who has trained the eight-division titleholder from General Santos City, Philippines for more than a decade, feels that basketball may have contributed to the leg cramps he complained of prior to some of his recent matches.

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