Editor’s note: Manny Pacquiao’s versus Miguel Cotto is only a few hours away, and the two fighters are just about ready to put their training camps behind them. After tumultuous camps in Baguio, Manila, and Hollywood, the finale of Pacquiao-Cotto 24/7 turns to the Pacquiao camp in the bright lights of Las Vegas, with the fighter looking fierce and fearless heading into the fight.

So, we’re just a few hours away from the fight and I finally got to watch the final episode of the series. In all honesty, the anticipation has gotten to the point where I’m too nervous to write and the last episode did absolutely nothing to calm those nerves, but I’ll give it a shot.

The show opened, as usual, with a recap of the previous episodes. It was a bit appropriate that the first thing it showed was Roach belittling Cotto’s young trainer Joe Santiago. Appropriate because before the episode aired, I was able to catch the weigh in for the fight, and right after Cotto had his turn at the scales (right on the button at 145 pounds and looking very mean in his Iron Man undies), the trainers got into a verbal tussle started by Santiago who apparently told Roach “one forty-five asshole!”. This was in response, I would wager, to the doubts circulating about Cotto making the catch-weight. If there were any doubts of Roach’s mind games getting inside Santiago’s head, I’d say that would settle it right there.

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