The PacMan has been glued to the screen. Not playing the video game named after him. Watching the tape of his contentious first fight with Tim Bradley which has set up this weekend?s potentially epic re-match.
Most of the world believes Manny Pacquiao was robbed here two years ago and the crowd at the weigh-in on Friday night continued to make their allegiance clear as Bradley soaked up the boos.
Pacquiao’s own verdict after reviewing the film: ?I?ve watched it a few times and I haven?t seen anything yet which can explain how two of the judges made Tim the winner.?
In PacMan speak ? since this is a most courteous gentleman ? that is as close as he would ever get to complaining or criticising.
Rather than snap back at Bradley?s prediction that he is about to finish the boxing career of the Philippines congressman, Pacquiao says: ?I don?t care about him disrespecting me. I pray for him.?
That said, by a devout Roman Catholic, there are consolations for Pacquiao in the controversy which has obliged them to do it all over again. Millions of them.
Pacquiao is guaranteed a minimum of $20 million for a Saturday night?s work in the MGM Grand Garden Arena lasting a maximum of 36 minutes.
How richly he deserves that reward is best explained by another statistic.
This is the occasion on which Pacquiao will become only the second boxer to exceed $700 million in terms of pay-per-viewTV revenue generated in their careers
The other is Floyd Mayweather and if ever these two do get into a ring together they would burst through the one billion barrier.
For the moment, Pacquiao is content to leap-frog over Oscar De La Hoya into the 700 club.
He goes back in against Bradley on $661 million, while Mayweather will add to his $756 million tally when he fights Marcos Maidana next month.
HBO network executives are expecting Pacquiao-Bradley 11 to comfortably surpass one million buys. But even a repeat of the 890,000 who subscribed for the first fight will carry the PacMan above that $700 million mark.
Those numbers are all the more remarkable since Pacquiao is the only non-American in a top five, in which Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson place fourth and fifth behind De La Hoya.
They are a testament in part to his charm, modesty and generosity of spirit but mostly to the high-octane excitement he brings to the ring and which he is promising to rev back up to full power here on the Las Vegas Strip
Pacquiao has not landed a knock-out since 2009, the year in which that dynamite left hook flattened Ricky Hatton and stopped Miguel Cotto.
Bradley, having benefited from the skewed judging against Pacquiao and then seen him brutally knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez, believes this distinguished challenger for his world welterweight title has lost his killer instinct.
But while there have been signs of Pacquiao showing compassion in the later round to opponents he is beating comfortably, he insists there will be no let up from now on.
He says: ?Tim will find out that my intensity is there. I will be throwing punches non-stop. Not least because I want to excite the fans and make them happy. I don?t know if the opportunity will come to knock him out but if it does I will take it.
?I won?t get careless like I did when I was about to stop Marquez but I will take the moment if it comes. I know this is an important fight in my career and I am very positive about everything.?
Pacquiao acknowledges that Bradley has improved since their first meeting, coming through a war against Ruslan Provodnikov and then impressively out-pointing Marquez.
The Californian has won all his 31 fights thus far, courtesy in part of that scandalous decision against Pacquiao. He, too, suffered from that miss-judging, even though he was convinced he had won that fight despite suffering from sore feet.
He was abused by many of the public, received death threats and became so depressed that at one point he contemplated suicide.
Psychologically he has re-grouped with the help of his wife Monica, who is also his manager. And at 27 he is foretelling the end of the ring?s only eight-division world champion, who is eight years his elder.
To which Pacquiao says: ?I?m 35 years young.?
That means that he is ready to chase down ? for the full 12 rounds if necessary ? an opponent who, although graduated to world class now, he expects to try to hit and run.
Were he to fail in that pursuit it is conceivable that boxing would lose a star attraction and one of its two biggest money generators.
But if he shines against Bradley, as he did against another young gun Brandon Rios in November, we might yet see that super-fight with Mayweather.
Pacquiao does not go in for boastful predictions but he does say: ?Rios also said he was going to retire me. But they have to prove it in the ring and I know everything that is necessary against Bradley.
?My journey will continue beyond Saturday night.?
Since he assures he has got his KO mojo working again, believe him.
Expect the PacMan, whose wife Jinkee expects their fifth child imminently, either to deliver a late stoppage or receive a unanimous decision from a new set of judges in whom, he says, he trusts completely.
