People's Champ Manny Pacquiao has burst into the pages of American GQ in a profile by writer Andrew Corsello who gives a blow- by-blow account of the frustrating experience of getting a pre-fight interview.
"What do you get when you cross Muhammad Ali, Sly Stallone, Vaclav Havel, Michael Vick, Che Guevara, & Clay Aiken?" reads the deck of the story. The article details Pacquiao's lavish lifestyle, from the luxury jet rides and gourmet meals to extravagant parties and an interesting line-up of loyal cohorts and hangers-on.
But of considerable mention is the most famous member of the entourage, Ilocos Sur ex-governor Luis "Chavit" Singson who casually boasted to Corsello that he beat up his former mistress Rachel "Che" Tiongson, and her lover Richard Catral. As merciful as Singson claimed to be, Corsello noted that one of the members of Team Pacquiao later revealed that the ex-governor kept a photo of Che's lover's penis that he bashed with a hammer. It was reported that it had to be surgically removed due to the massive damage inflicted. And perhaps the most bizarre part of Cosello's story is Chavit boasting of a DIY genetics experiment:
"'I have twelve tiger. When I home, I swim with them every day. But now I want to make liger, yes?' The product of a lion and a tiger. 'So I bring lion in, and he do this, yes?' The Governor made a fucky-fucky motion with his right index finger and his closed left fist. 'And he do, and he do. No liger. And so I make him do, and do some more. And then…acchhhhh!' The Governor clasped his hands to his heart and rolled his eyes back in their orbits; his lion stud had literally died of a cardiac infarction while being made to copulate for the umpteenth time with one of his tigresses. 'No liger,' the Governor said dejectedly."
Corsello also noted that some of Pacquiao's other disciples, much like the biblical Judas, have stolen money from him. Corsello was surprised by how Pacquiao, in Jesus-like fashion, has always forgiven them. "He has made numerous people in his camp believe in God with what he's done," said Joe Ramos, one of the cohorts who once took large amounts of cash from Pacquiao. "I think he was put here to make us better men. There is a feeling that those who betrayed him had to, so that Manny could teach them," Abac Cordero tells Corsello.
Despite all this, Corsello says he understands Pacquiao's charm and describes him as the eye of the chaotic storm that is his life–from his humble and brutal beginnings to the long, arduous journey that made him the pound-for-pound king that he now is.
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