By Jeff Powell Follow @@jeffpowell_Mail Manny Pacquiao’s return journey to Las Vegas has taken him via Jimmy Kimmel’s chat show on American television, where he was joined on camera by Bill Clinton. The former US president not only expressed his unbounded admiration of the PacMan as a boxer but endorsed him as a future leader of the Philippines. The man standing in the way of the first of those ambitions sees that celebrity shoulder-rubbing as further reason why he will beat the legendary Pacquiao for a second time in the MGM Grand Garden. VIDEO Scroll down to watch Pacquiao train and arrive in Las Vegas ahead of bout
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Manny Pacquiao appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel Show with Bill Clinton, giving Tim Bradley more belief that the former champ has lost his fire
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Pacquiao remains deeply aggravated by the blinkered Nevadan judges who consigned him to defeat against Bradley in 2012
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Pacquiao's coach Freddie Roach has said: 'I want Manny to go for the KO against Bradley. And I expect him to get it.'
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Unbeaten Bradley acknowledges that the scoring controversy hurt public perception of him and he, too, is eager reconfirm his reputation
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Carl Frampton fully deserves to be viewed as the heir apparent to his own mentor, the great Barry McGuigan, in the firmament of Northern Irish boxing
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After a gruesome eye injury, Enzo Maccarinelli is still only 33 but is left to ponder his future in the hardest game
As @placeholder’s right eye closed – and his vision of becoming a two-weight world champion disappeared from his sight – some of boxing’s old-stagers took to wondering why his corner did not apply a rather gruesome remedy of the past to the swelling.