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.
“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.” Pacquiao, who is staying at a hotel just down the las Vegas Strip from the MGM Grand arena, will have a Bible study session on the day of the fight, trainer Freddie Roach said. He’ll also go for a walk to get some fresh air, which could cause some consternation among tourists on the Strip who might see him passing by.
“It’s pretty much a normal day,” Roach said. “But I don’t like people to stay inside all day and get a little groggy.” Ellerbe said once Mayweather is ready to go early Saturday evening, he might just pick a car out of his collection and drive to the arena himself. “It’s like he’s going out to dinner somewhere,” Ellerbe said. “He’ll drive 10-12 miles down the road, go in the ring and kick some behind, collect a check and go back to the house and have a party. He does it in that order.”