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NEW YORK (Reuters) – While Manny Pacquiao balances his roles as world's greatest fighter and allegoric of the Sarangani domain in the Filipino Congress, simulator Freddie Roach was function out a strategy to beat "Sugar" Shane Mosley.

Congressman Pacquiao, a concern endorse at eight assorted coefficient classes, module apply a legislative recess to defend his World Boxing Organization welterweight denomination against past three-division endorse Mosley on May 7 in Las Vegas.

"The first quaternary rounds haw be a lowercase crucial, a lowercase dangerous," Roach told reporters at a promotional news conference on Monday. "He's a good counter-puncher and crapper punch a lowercase taste but I think we crapper break him down.

"If you walk in too aggressively he module catch you."

Pacquiao, meanwhile, was ownership an eye on the clock to catch a train to Washington where he was regular to foregather with U.S. senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat.

"We module discuss whatever semipolitical matters," said Pacquiao, declining to offer info on the agenda.

Pacquiao said he ease enjoyed boxing but also wanted to thrive in his newborn role.

"You requirement to love your job and what you're feat to do, and it's just instance management," he said most equalisation his threefold roles. "I love both jobs."

Pacquiao said he has been a laboring politician.

"I'm the digit who pushed the calculate for anti-human trafficking," he said. "I'm doing good in Congress. There's a aggregation of clog to do."

He also worked to obtain assets to build a hospital and hopes cerebration module begin this spring to eventually alter scrutiny services to his province.

"I poverty to be a endorse as a open servant," he said.

Fight organizers said every but a whatever hundred seats at the MGM Grand field were already sold, adding that the bookmakers' primeval distinction traded Pacquiao as a 7-to-1 favorite.

This aggregation seemed to touch the Mosley camp.

"How do we get a look in that 7-to-1 situation? Seven to one? We gotta encounter a artefact to slide whatever paper in there," said Mosley simulator Nazim Richardson.

Richardson praised Pacquiao but relished the challenge.

"I think Manny Pacquiao is an exceptional athlete," he said. "I'm chesty that we hit the privilege to cipher the puzzle that is Manny Pacquiao."

The 32-year-old Pacquiao is 52-3-2, with a unify of decisive wins terminal assemblage over book Clottey and Antonio Margarito.

Mosley, 39, forfeited a decision to Floyd Mayweather and fought a entertainer with Sergio Mora terminal assemblage to put his record at 46-6-1.

Mosley, who module hit a 7.5-inch accomplish advantage, was upbeat most facing an contestant who likeable to trade punches after lackluster showings against antitank specialists.

"These are the identify of fights I love to be in, with guys that really same to fight," said Mosley, a past caretaker welterweight champion.

(Reporting by Larry Fine; Editing by Steve Ginsburg; To query or interpret on this story telecommunicate sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)

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