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For years, Pacquiao stayed at a flea-bitten hotel

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Manny Pacquiao during a media workout at Wild Card Boxing Club. (Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea, USA TODAY Sports)

LOS ANGELES – Before it was razed  a year ago, the Vagabond Inn on Hollywood’s Vine St. was, in the words of the property’s neighbor, “a total piece of (expletive).”

The neighbor in question is boxing’s finest trainer, Freddie Roach, and the only reason he ever paid much attention to the establishment, by several accounts a flea-bitten eyesore inhabited by mainly dubious clientele, was because it housed his favorite fighter.