LAS VEGAS – Freddie Roach is sticking to his game plan: Wear Oscar dela Hoya down with body shots then go for the kill.

“We fight the way we fight,” said the American trainer late Monday (December 1) evening shortly after Team Pacquiao checked in at The Hotel of Mandalay Bay.
Roach stopped by at Pacquiao’s 61st floor suite to get his room assignment, and as he left talked about their plans on how to work the fight.

“We will break his body down. I think we can get him. I do,” he said in one of the carpeted hallway of the majestic hotel here in Sin City.

Roach, like everyone else who had seen the Dela Hoya the past few days, believes that the 35-year-old former Olympic champion is in great shape.
“Oscar is in great shape I know it,” said Roach.
But again, that doesn’t mean that the kinks in his armor are gone.

“He’s weak in the body. That’s where he gets hurt. (Felix) Trinidad hurt him there, (Bernard) Hopkins knocked him out,” said Roach.

“He fades. He fades in slow-paced fights. And Manny Pacquiao is a fast-paced fighter. We have to make it work.”

The “Dream Match: Dela Hoya Vs. Pacquiao” happens December 6th in Las Vegas.