Pacquiao feasts on bulalo, kebab after weigh-in
LAS VEGAS – After breezing through the scales Friday at the official weigh-in at the Encore Theatre here in Wynn Las Vegas (Saturday in Manila), Manny Pacquiao made sure to replenish himself.
A photo posted on Facebook by Pacquiao’s assistant trainer Nonoy Neri shows the Filipino icon in his lunch table with a selection of highprotein viands in front of him.
Pacquiao had white rice, bone marrow soup or “bulalo,” bistek Tagalog (beef steak), chicken kebab and fried chicken served before him.
The fighting Senator enjoyed the well-deserved meal after successfully making weight, tipping the scales at 144.8 pounds – well below the welterweight limit of 147 pounds.
Pacquiao is so used to comfortably meeting the welterweight limit that Freddie Roach’s marching order to him in terms of his diet – which the trainer told Filipino reporters before they broke camp in Los Angeles last week – is simple: Eat as you normally do.
Roach earlier said Pacquiao doesn’t need to pack on the pounds in between now and tomorrow, wanting his prized ward to enter fight night in his normal weight.
This, Roach added, will enable Pacquiao to move more efficiently in the ring.
Vargas, in contrast, is expected to enter the ring Saturday at the Thomas & Mack Center (Sunday in Manila) at around 154 pounds, which would make him a junior middleweight.
The WBO welterweight champion tipped in at 146.5 pounds, and afterwards was seen chugging a bottle of sports drink to rehydrate.
The wait for making weight is over, and the time for fighting begins soon.