While typing something into Google about pound-for-pound boxing king and superstar Manny Pacquiao a while back — I was looking for an old fight of his, I do believe — autocomplete proposed something preposterous in the way that Google often does, based on the zany things people are typing into the Internet. After toying around with autocomplete and Manny’s name for a while, I realized a number of things: 1. people have some pretty hilarious questions about Pacquiao; 2. Collecting what people wonder about Pacquiao would reveal some non-hilarious truths about the public persona of Pacquiao; 3. I could answer everyone’s questions for them all in one spot; 4. A post on this could generate monstrous traffic for my website.
No. 4 is a pretty cheap reason to write something, obviously. But it is my hope that this post is the equivalent of the phrase “good politics is good government.” For instance, did you know there are aparently tons of people who think Pacquiao drinks his urine? And that virtually every conceivable auto-filled Pacquiao topic or question template presented on Google at some point devolves into whether he’s on steroids or not? Those are two things you might not know, if not for my hunger for raw Paquiao-based traffic.
So, Pacquiao neophytes and hardcore boxing fans: Behold the universe’s questions about Manny Pacquiao, answered.
