Ang Peregrino Recommends 37: Pacland

Pacland
URL: http://​www​.man​ny​pac​quiao​.ph/

Pacland is the reader’s digest of every­thing about Manny Pac­quiao on the inter­net. It is a col­lec­tion of links to Manny Pac­quiao articles—news about his train­ing, arti­cles about his coach Fred­die Roach, com­men­taries on his fights, opin­ions about his being the present #1 Pound-for-Pound fighter in the world and even on his many adven­tures here in the philip­pines and around the world.

I won­der how they do it, but every day, a new set of arti­cles from around the net are given links in the site. There are also some great finds in the site which might be a lit­tle hard to find: Manny Pacquiao’s fight record can be found there, spe­cial news fea­tures, and a very active forum on box­ing in gen­eral and about Fil­ipino fight­ers in particular.

I per­son­ally check this site every day spe­cially as the Pacman’s fight with De la Hoya draws near. It gives me an insight into the phe­nom­e­non that is Pac­quiao and I’m amazed at how so many fans (Fil­ipinos mostly) wor­ship him like he’s God, and so many oth­ers (Mex­i­cans mostly) hate him like he’s the Devil. And that’s one thing I like about this site—it is not biased and pro-Pacquiao all the way. In fact it pro­vides links to arti­cles that may not be too pos­i­tive about Pac­quiao, and even to arti­cles which are down­right insult­ing to him. For Manny Pacquiao’s rabid fans though, these arti­cles become a tar­get for some­times crazy and down­right insult­ing defense of their idol. The lat­est con­tro­versy was an arti­cle by John Chavez and Ricardo Lois on Michael Marley’s Box­ing Con­fi­den­tial site which was staunchly crit­i­cized by Fil­ipino colum­nists Recah Trinidad and Ron­nie Nathanielz. The fans also took it one step fur­ther by spam­ming Lois and Chavez with very insult­ing and below-the-belt comments.

For giv­ing us a place on the net to find Manny Pac­quiao arti­cles, and for the unbi­ased treat­ment of arti­cles, AngPere­grino Rec­om­mends Pacland this week.