It’s been shear madness all this hype and speculation about the lengthy and unruly hairstyle suddenly adopted by Pinoy Idol Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao.
Some outraged citizens of Boxing World have been so incensed by Manny’s not so Natty Dreads that I have been expecting calls for a Congressional investigation of the Congressman from Sarangani Province.
Even Better Half Jinkee told me, on the private rail car ride from Manhattan down to Washington a week ago Monday, that she intensely disliked the furry situation which is on top of Manny’s brushy goatee. If the goatee did not get Mrs. Pacman’s goat, the black furball on his big dome certainly did.
But Jinkee told me, hubby told her no go as to a prefight haircut and that no tonsorial alterations would take place until after the May 7 showdown with the more carefully coiffed Sugar Shane Mosley on May 7 at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Well, leave it your insipid, er I mean intrepid, reporter to get to the bottom of the Long Locks situation which has fans roiled from Isabella to Baguio to Daly City and Jersey City.
First, I told Manny I don’t believe the Justin Bieber nonsense, the notion that he is imitating the teenaged hearthrob from Canada who is not even a distant relative of Agent Michael Koncz.
Pacquiao smiled, Pacquiao smirked.
Then I told Megamanny, I was also not buying his “Bruce Lee hair tribute” line of patter.
Pacquiao smiled, Pacquiao smirked and then Pacquiao opened up.
His viper’s nest hairstyle comes from his well known almost religious adherence to habits, from his Superstition Mountain of prefight practices.
“I had short hair against Erik Morales,” Pacquiao said.
“Then I had short hair against (Juan Manuel) Marquez the last fight,” Pacquiao said.
If, there is some Mosley Miracle, some outcome deying the 7-1 betting odds, don’t blame Pacquiao’s coiffure.
I bet Bieber is happy to be off the hook on this, the kid’s got enough problems with all the ravenous teenyboppers chasing him wherever he goes.
As for icon Bruce Lee, he had no comment at this time but check in for the next seance with or without Never Boring Madam Auring.
