Sunday, November 23, 2014

manny pacquiao wins convincingly over chris algieri

manny pacquiao won convincingly in his match versus american chris algieri in the cotai arena in macau. the pinoy boxing champion won via unanimous decision. the three judges scored the bout 119 - 103, 119 - 103 and 120 - 102; all in favor of pacquiao.

pacquiao dominated the match from the start, knocking down the american six times in the course of the match. the fight almost ended in round 9, where algieri was knocked down twice and was clearly shaken and hurt.

pacquiao improved to 57-5-2 with 38 knockouts while algieri got his first defeat and will have a record of 20-1, with 8 knockouts.

after the match, pacquiao was asked if the most awaited fight against floyd mayweather will happen soon, his answer was "is he going to fight me?", which is the somewhat reminiscent of the viral video below that he did for footlocker from their youtube channel :



photo is from the bleacher report website

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