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Antonio Margarito, who underwent 75 minutes of surgery Tuesday to repair a fractured right orbital bone, already is planning a return to the ring, his manager, Sergio Diaz, informed FanHouse after the fighter’s surgery. Margarito suffered the damage during Saturday night’s unanimous decision loss to Manny Pacquiao.

“Surgery was a success. Antonio is currently in the recovery room,” Diaz wrote in a text message. “Surgery was an hour and fifteen minutes, and doctors say that he must have at least 60 days without any contact.”

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(AP) — WBO welterweight (147 pounds) king Manny Pacquiao should be getting accustomed to training through typhoons by now.

The pound-for-pound king has been preparing for his upcoming fight HBO pay per view, Top Rank Promotions Nov. 13 against Antonio Margarito for the WBC junior middleweight (154 pounds) belt in his native Philippines, where Typhoon Megi struck with fury this week, killing at least 20 and destroying thousands of homes and farms.

Promoter Bob Arum told The Associated Press by phone from Manila on Wednesday that Pacquiao’s training camp in the mountains near Baguio City escaped the brunt of the storm. Roads were flooded and trees knocked over, but the fighter and his entourage were safe.

“Wind and rain like you’ve never seen, really strong, strong wind,” Arum said. “Even though you’re in the mountains and a land area, it’s like when I was a kid and lived on Long Island for the summer, and we would have these hurricanes that came up the Atlantic coast.”

Pacquiao certainly has experienced this kind of distraction before.

While he was preparing for a fight against Miguel Cotto in September 2009, a pair of typhoons-Parma and Ketsana-raked across the archipelago within a week of each other, killing about 500 people in the deadliest series of storms the country had experienced in a decade. They triggered dozens of mudslides, destroyed crops and caused an estimated 0 million in damages.

Pacquiao took a break from his training during those typhoons and drove through the rain to Manila, where he handed out food and supplies to people who lost everything.

“The Cotto fight was worse. Manila was flooded and everything,” Arum said. “They were much better prepared for it this time.”

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