THE PACQUIAO 2010 WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE: 5 Days to go before fight
It lived a fun day today at the Palazzo. On the other hand once again that is a every day happening in that place. It has no more small question Manny Pacquiao loves to keep the status corner that place year in and year out. There’s barely no backup for the fun and the chaos that attach to it.
Take the 2010 weight loss competition put up by the Pacman.
At a little bit after 1:00 p.m. in Los Angeles, Pacquiao gave way the order to disclose the “official” weigh-in scales to the open air patio of the condo to start the final weigh-in and find out who made the challenge of dropping off 15% of their body weight.
Everyone who makes, gets a sizzling $3000.00 prize.
With Pacquiao manning the scales himself and Joe Ramos assisting, one after another, the people stepped in on the scales.
First one on the scales was Nonoy Neri. Neri cautious stepped on the scales a lot like a fighter doing a weigh-in. He hardly made the 15% he needed to get. Then he quickly put on his shirt and warm up pants and headed up straight to the kitchen to eat.
Buboy Fernandez wasn’t so lucky. Hard as he tried, he still needed about 10 pounds more to reach the minimum required for him to turn a loss.
And then the rest followed. Many were successful and others failed.
A few of those that left out the mandatory weight by just a pound or two were given two hours to do it. Of course they hastily went down to the sauna room downstairs at the Palazzo gym to sweat it out. Others who were too far off simply gave up.
The fellow that lost the most weight incidentally was granted $20,000. His name is Tim Sladek. He lost 22% of the body weight he had 4 weeks ago. He beat a couple of past winners, Mike Koncz and Alex Ariza.
Some people who have read about the competition criticize it as a “waste of resources.” But Pacquiao simply swats those arguments. As he said a media man who was there today, his aim is to give those who hang around at the Palazzo a taste of what it takes and how it feels to lose weight much like he does every fight. “I just want them to appreciate better the sacrifices I experience, but most of all,” he added, “I want them all to be in good shape.”
Pacquiao leaves for Dallas tomorrow afternoon after a ceremonial send off at the Wildcard Gym to attend the fight week hoopla before he stakes his WBO Welterweight crown against Joshua Clottey at the Cowboys Stadium at Arlington, Texas on Saturday, March 13th.
