Billed as East vs. West or were I to promote the event, New World vs. Old World or Far South-East vs. North to be navigationally-correct, the West was soundly and efficiently defeated, for good measure (following the East Meets West Side Story Rumble in the Konkrete Jungle with Oscar de la Hoya, where Manny was also the victor).
The global sports world are elated at crowning the new Lord of the Boxing Ring, Manny Pacquiao aka The People's Champion/The Destroyer/The Mexi-cutioner/Pac-Man/Pambansang Kamao ("National Fist"). I've had a similar hunch about Ha'Filipinim in general, for awhile now actually, and in far more impacting ways.

Filipinos are like Hobbits because they are a peace-loving, party people, who love to eat, drink, pipe-smoke, laugh and have fiestas; who are secure in their dreams and visions, seeing well above the ordinary turn of events, giving hope to a cynical and litigious world, preferring, instead, the confines of The Shire - Eunice Malijan.
We are tribeless and all tribes are ours/We are homeless and all homes are ours/We are nameless and all names are ours - From 'Open Letter to Filipino Artists' by Emmanuel Lacaba aka the Brown Rimbaud, Salvaged Poems; Author of post-hummus collection of poetry entitled, Bar Mitzvah.
"Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; the weak one shall say, 'I am a strong warrior'" (Yoel 4:10).
"Go on through, go on through the gates, clear the way for the people! Build up a highway, build it up! Clear the debris! Raise high a banner, a standard to all peoples! AD-NOY has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, "Tell the people of Israel, 'Lo, your Messiah is coming! Here, his reward is with him, and his recompense is before him.' They shall call them The Holy People, The Redeemed of the L-RD. And Jerusalem shall be called 'The Desirable Place,' 'The City G-d Did Not Forsake'" (Yeshayahu 62:10-12). And he'll hoist that rallying banner high, visible to all nations, gather in all the scattered exiles of Israel, Pull in all the dispersed refugees of Judea from the four winds and the seven seas of the eretz" (Yeshayahu 11:12).
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