New film shows how poor boy grew up to be boxing champ

As a dirt-poor rookie boxer in the southern Philippines, Manny Pacquiao started his phenomenal rise to global fame not as the Pacman, as he is sometimes called, but as "Kid Kulafu." That moniker - the title of a new local film about Pacquiao's childhood - was taken from the label of a cheap wine whose empty bottles he returned for recycling to earn money to help his family.

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