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KADAUGAN SA MACTAN 2025 Pacman to return as Lapulapu; vlogger Habibi is Reyna Bulakna
The Freeman
|March 26, 2025
It has been 17 years since Manny Pacquiao played Datu Lapulapu during the Kadaugan sa Mactan in 2008, where he, along with his wife Jinkee as Reyna Bulakna and Dennis Trillo as Ferdinand Magellan, re-enacted the historic 1521 battle that marked one of the earliest instances of Filipino resistance against Spanish colonization.
Pacquiao’s performance was quite memorable in that the 2015 re-enactment was dedicated to him ahead of his then-upcoming fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in Las Vegas which took place a month after the festival.
This year, the former boxing champion will once again step into Lapulapu’s shoes for next month’s Kadaugan sa Mactan, with this edition’s re-enactment titled “Adlaw ni Lapulapu: Victory in Mactan”, set to take place on April 27.
This time, he will be joined by Visayan vlogger Crissa “Habibi” Liaging as Reyna Bulakna, while Belgian model Kevin Lahousse, a Lapu-Lapu City resident, will once again play the famed Portuguese explorer.
This story is from the March 26, 2025 edition of The Freeman.
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