Two days before the fight, Mike Tyson dropped by by the IBA Gym in Las Vegas to catch the Filipino’s last training session before the fight.

As if words were not enough to drive his point across, former undisputed heavyweight champion 'Iron' Mike Tyson stepped back, bobbed, weaved and then ducked a phantom left hook.

This is how you do it against Oscar De La Hoya, Tyson told Manny Pacquiao’s assistant trainer Buboy Fernandez.

“He (Tyson) said Manny must keep moving the head,” Fernandez said.

Tyson also noted that De La Hoya’s background as an amateur fighter makes him a deadly tactician.

“He wants Manny to move in and not to back away too far because that’s where Oscar’s jab-straight-hook (combination) comes to play,” Fernandez said.

He also quoted Tyson as saying it would be best for the Filipino ring hero to keep attacking De La Hoya’s body because sooner or later the Golden Boy’s guard would start to lower.

Tyson came in a pink long-sleeved shirt, gray pants and black leather shoes, and accompanied by a lone friend. He sat quietly in the gym's weights section, obliging to some photo-ops and only rose when Pacquiao got up the ring.

Tyson watched with great interest as the world's pound-for-pound champion from the Philippines pounded the mitts with Freddie Roach, who also trained the boxer that was also known as "the baddest man on this planet" late in his career.

He applauded when Pacquiao was done with the mitts, then started to share his thoughts with Roach and co-trainer Buboy Fernandez, showing them how to move the head and body or dock and weave against the taller and heftier Dela Hoya.

Mike Tyson appeared as a hologram along with other former champs George Foreman, Joe Frazier, Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis, and got the biggest receive of them all.

A video of the entrance can be seen below:

"Those were the good old days," Baranski said. "From August 1986 to August 1987, we spent 27 weeks in Las Vegas. Hell, that was 21 years ago."

Baranski now is 86, but you wouldn't know it. He spends little time in the recliner watching old fights on tape. He moves as fast as he did when he founded the old Trinity Institute Gym in 1963.

He is pictured here in 1987, the year before he stopped running the gym.

Baranski, an accomplished middleweight fighter in the 1940s, hasn't forgotten how to work out. Four times a week, he is at Albany's Quail Street Gym. He goes four rounds on a speed bag, four more on a heavy bag. He goes through a rigorous routine of calisthenics. He rides the bike. Oh, and he does 300 sit-ups.