LAS VEGAS (AP) – Manny Pacquiao will get up sometime late Saturday morning in his hotel suite and eat some steamed rice and chicken, washed down with water that his aides make sure is room temperature or warmer.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. will have breakfast at his mini-mansion on the Southern Highlands golf course, then go over in his mind once again how the biggest fight of his life might play out.
Fight day is always a lonely time for boxers. The day of reckoning has finally arrived, and there’s little more than can be done to prepare, even when it’s the richest fight in boxing history.
“Floyd’s favorite saying is ‘It’s going to be what it’s going to be,” Mayweather’s promoter, Leonard Ellerbe said. “He knows in his mind that he’s done everything he has needed to do. He knows he’ll be prepared.”
Both fighters have done this so much that it’s second nature. Mayweather will be fighting for the 48th time in his pro career, while Pacquiao has been in 64 fights.