WORLD Boxing Organization bantamweight champion Gerry Pe?alosa?s manager Billy Keane said he shares the confidence of the veteran Filipino champ that he will beat WBO upper bantamweight champion Juan Manuel ?Juanma? Lopez in their title clash in Puerto Rico on April 25.

Keane told www.insidesports.ph, Standard Today and Viva Sports that Pe?alosa was looking good. ?He?s very confident and he?s going to win this fight.?

In his final workout at the Market Mall in Mandaluyong, the 36-year-old Pe?alosa looked exceptionally sharp, while working the punch-mitts with brother Jonathan.

?I have to train hard and not be overconfident because this is a big fight,? Pe?alosa told Standard Today.

This is apparently not the case with Lopez. Keane noted that during the recent press-public preview in Puerto Rico, Lopez was very overconfident. ?He bragged that he would be the first man to knock Gerry out. Lopez will come out and try to bomb Gerry out of there and I don?t think that?s going to be very successful. I think that if Gerry survives the early rounds and gets him with body shots, by the sixth or seventh round, he [Lopez] will start to fade.?

Keane said Lopez is cocky and hasn?t really fought anybody except for Daniel Ponce de Leon. ?He is not much bigger than Gerry. I like Gerry?s chances a lot in this fight.?

Pe?alosa said the one thing he likes about Lopez is his style. ?That?s my favorite, a fighter who comes forward. But I won?t have a problem even if he runs because we have a Plan B to deal with that.?

He said that moving up from 118 to 122 will pose no problems and would in fact give him more punching power against Lopez, whom he described as a rising star of Top Rank.

The two-division world champion, who once held the World Boxing Council super flyweight title, said: ?I expect to win and I want one more big fight before I quit.?

Pe?alosa will train under Freddie Roach, whose run of successes continued over the weekend in Britain where lightweight Amir Khan scored a fifth-round technical decision shutout over Mexican legend Marco Antonio Barrera.

His other ward Ola Afolabi scored a stunning ninth-round TKO over heavily favored Enzo Maccarinelli to win the WBO cruiserweight interim title, also at the MEN Arena in Manchester.

?Roach will have time for Gerry for sure.? He said Pe?alosa would train at around 11 a.m. after which Roach?s undivided attention will be on the Philippines? boxing hero Manny Pacquiao beginning at 1 p.m.

IBF/IBO flyweight champion Nonito ?The Filipino Flash? Donaire, who trained alongside Pe?alosa in Baguio City, expressed confidence that Pe?alosa would take over the fight against Lopez because ?one thing for sure Lopez is untested and he?s going to run.? Donaire also pointed out that Lopez had been dropped a few times when fighting as an amateur and his chin was suspect and that?s why he was sure that once Pe?alosa ?catches him with a solid punch he?s going to run.? Ronnie Nathanielsz