Manny Pacquiao: HBO's "On Freddie Roach" Shows Different Side of Boxer

Manny Pacquiao and his little boy haircut and famous smile are both present when boxing's megastar appears on HBO's mini series On Freddie Roach. There's nothing new here.

I can't speak for all boxing fans, but I did see a few other things while enjoying this show that shocked me a little.

I have never thought of Pacquiao as a diva-type boxer and I'm not saying that's the case now; however, there were a few spots in the documentary that cast a different light on Manny.

We don't get to see Manny until about halfway through the series, when his trainer Freddie Roach is on his way to the Philippines to start camp for the Juan Manuel Marquez fight.

There's a scene that shows Roach waiting at the gym for his fighter, who is late. As Roach is talking about his guy being tardy, someone off camera asks a question. "What's he doing; just congressman stuff?" the man asked.

Roach explained. "You know what? They're afraid to wake him up. He sleeps until he naturally wakes up. They won't wake him up, because if it pisses him off, they get fired," said Roach.

When Manny finally shows up, he has a cell phone to his ear and never pulls it from that spot, even when he embraces Roach.

There's also a conversation caught on camera that shows Roach talking to Michael Koncz—Manny's financial advisor.

Koncz is telling Roach about an incident the previous night where Pacquiao got mad at Alex (show isn't clear on who Alex is) when he tried to get Manny to go to bed, because Marquez had already hit the sack at 9:30 p.m.

Manny was working on tickets and ignored the requests and finally asked for a half-an-hour longer. Alex then made a reference to Mike Tyson getting knocked out by Buster Douglas.

"I can just tell you what I was told," Koncz told Roach." "Manny went berserk; he threw his phone; he lifted up the (expletive) table and busted it in pieces. He told Alex to (expletive) himself and get out.  Then he instructed the guards; if you let him back in here, I'm going to kill you myself," said Koncz about the encounter.

During the entire exchange between the two, none of what Koncz was saying seemed to surprise Roach at all. His demeanor and expression never really changed. If you couldn't here the conversation, and were just watching, you would think that Koncz was telling him what he had for breakfast.

Maybe, there's nothing to any of this; Pac Man has a lot on his plate these days. 

He's a congressman now, and he's dealing with the Floyd Mayweather Jr. drama. As we all saw in the Marquez fight, Manny was not quite himself and Roach acknowledges this in the show.

Another aspect of Manny that did come through loud and clear on the show as well is the fighter's never-quit attitude while training. It seemed that Manny always wanted to push his workout a little further than Roach wanted.

So, do we just chalk all this up to pressure, and this being one isolated incident?

I know this stuff is nothing new for boxers, or celebrities in general, but it was just a little unsettling to see the boyish Pacquiao come off like that.

In my mind, none of the aforementioned incidents will change my view towards Manny Pacquiao. I still see him as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the business, and unless he does actually kill someone or break the law, go ahead Manny, blow off some steam.