Pacquiao vs. Algieri
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By Robert Brizel Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
MACAU, CHINA (November 23, 2014)– Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing cashed out, earning Chris Algieri and the promotional team 1.675 million dollars before taxes. Algieri, whose old car has over two hundred thousand miles, and who lives in his parents’ basement, can now afford a new car and some new digs.
The strange approach of the Algieri corner, to view Chris Algieri’s challenge for Manny Pacquiao’s World Boxing Organization World Welterweight title as a series of rounds consisting of round one and round two in repetition, was a disaster. Algieri even sparred and prepared for the megafight with this strange repeating rounds one and two concept.
Pacquiao trainer, Freddie Roach, succeeded in getting Algeri to fall for the psychout of the century, predicting a first round knockout by Pacquiao and shaking Algieri’s rhythm.
Algieri came in with a game plan, to go for the knockout. Algieri, an MMAMixed Martial Arts world champion at light welterweight and welterweight, and the WBO World Light Welterweight champion with an overall 40-0 record, could not escape the Martial Arts mentality of crush, kill and destroy. A boxer is a technical fighter, and Pacquiao, fighting smartly with technical skill, scored six knockdowns and put everyround in the bank, winning by 12 round decision in Macau. Pacman versus Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2015 megafight is ready to happen, quoting Pacman after the bout.
Algieri made weight on the second try at the agreed upon catchweight of 144 pounds at 143.6, using the bathroom and returning 50 minutes later, after originally weighing in at 144.4. The weight issue was a nonfactor, however Pacquiao said Chris looked dehydrated.
Algieri failed to be competitive in the bout with Pacquiao because he had no ‘Plan B’, and could not change his MMA fight mentality as well. The fight was lost in the opening round, as round one really was round one only in round one. That was it. Algieri had been punching by volume in previous game plans and winning a majority of rounds fought. Alghieri had done this sucessfully against many southpaw opponents. Strangely, his corner kept up the bad strategy and poor advice, maintaining his mindset in the failing game plan, insuring Algieri did not try to win a single round with his technical skill. Algieri won one only decent round on two scorecards, but other than that came up empty. He allowed the southpaw Pacquiao to outwork him and score with power shots from all angles all night.
An Algieri game plan which would have worked for 12 rounds was if he traded consistentlywith Pacquiao in a technical war of attrition, Chris being the bigger man. Chris only executed this sort of game plan in one of the later rounds, round 8, where did a good job keeping Pacquiao on the outside, which he failed to do in the other 11 rounds.
Algieri’s legs were good, but he looked more like he was running in the Shanghai International marathon than fighting for a boxing title. Algieri’s corner was a mess, an ongoing train wreck of bad advice from trainer Tim Lane. The college educated Algieri needed a sound game plan, or a solid ‘Plan B’ to pursue when ‘Plan A’ failed. By yielding the tempo of the ring to Pacquiao at the onset, Algieri gave it away. A rematch is unlikely, given the lopsided nature of this bout. Algieri could not keep Pacquiao from getting inside, and Algieri’s big heart could not compensate for his weak chin.
Algieri, 30, claimed he still had his legs after getting knocked down twice in the ninth round. After going down on one knee for the sixth knockdown in the tenth round, one wonders what referee Genaro Rodriguez was thinking by allowing the bout to continue for a decisionon the cards instead of stopping it. Pacquiao looked like a bulldozer on a demolition mission. Knowing Algieri’s punches had no power, the Pacquiao bulldozer was in high gear, sending Algieri to the canvas so hard once he crashed into a somersault 360 from Pacquiao’s power. Pacquiao’s punching prowess was 12 rounds of a nasty beating.
Pacman, 35, who earned over 20 million dollars for thisHBO win, will now godown to 140 pounds, according to Freddie Roach, unless the boutwith Floyd the public demands is on the horizon in 2015. Pacquiao could always rematch with Juan Manuel Marquez yet again, if Floyd opts to fight somebody else first.
Result: Manny Pacquiao Win 12 Chris Algieri, Welterweights
Pacquiao retains the WBO World Welterweight title
Scoring: 119-103, 119-103, 120-102. Referee: Genaro Hernandez
Pacquiao knocked down Algieri six times in the bout.
Algieri appeared to slip on water in the Pacquiao corner in round two, scored as a knockdown by referee Genaro Hernandez. HBO commentator Harold Lederman asserted this knockdown was incorrect. The knockdown stood and caused a 10-8 Pacquiao round.
(AP) — Manny Pacquiao couldn’t resist having a little fun after getting the signature win he desperately needed for the fight boxing fans desperately want to see.
No reason not to enjoy himself after sending Chris Algieri to the canvas six times Sunday night in a performance that will once again heat up talk of a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
“He’s going to fight me? Yes! Yes!,” Pacquiao said, jumping up and down in the ring Sunday after tearing apart a reluctant Algieri on his way to a lopsided decision win. “I am ready to fight him next year.”
Pacquiao was playing off a new commercial where he celebrates after thinking Mayweather has agreed to the match. But he might have boosted his stock enough to entice Mayweather into the ring finally.
“I really want that fight,” Pacquiao said. “The fans deserve that fight.”
Pacquiao got the big knockdowns he was looking for, battering Algieri around the ring at will Sunday in a lopsided welterweight title fight.
Pacquiao chased Algieri from the opening bell, knocking him down repeatedly and dominating. About the only thing Pacquiao didn’t get was his first knockout in five years, settling instead for a lopsided 12-round unanimous decision against an opponent who seemed unwilling to engage.
By the time it was over, Algieri had gone down six times. And Pacquiao had dispelled notions he might be on the decline.
“It’s not just his hand speed,” Algieri said. “He’s a great fighter. He does everything well. Manny has perfected his style of boxing.”
Pacquiao prayed in his corner while waiting for the decision. But it was Algieri who never had a prayer.
Pacquiao knocked Algieri down once in the second round, two more times in the sixth and twice more in the ninth. After a final knockdown in the 10th round, he seemed to back off in a fight that had long been decided.
Two ringside judges scored the bout 119-103 while the third had it 120-102. The Associated Press had Pacquiao winning 120-102.
Pacquiao went into the fight saying he needed a power win to entice Mayweather to fight him. He vowed to put on a performance like some of his earlier fights and did, never letting Algieri get close.
Some of the sold out crowd of 13,202 at the Venetian Macau may have wondered whether Algieri deserved this fight, as he spent more time trying to stay away from Pacquiao than trading punches.
But while Algieri could run, he couldn’t hide. Pacquiao caught him repeatedly with power punches and dropped him as he tried to back away.
“The master boxer was given a master class by professor Pacquiao tonight,” trainer Freddie Roach said. “I was disappointed in Algieri’s performance tonight. All he did was run.”
Pacquiao’s second fight in China was held at midday to accommodate the pay-per-view sales in the U.S., but the time of day didn’t matter much to the Filipino fans who cheered on their 35-year-old national hero.
Pacquiao knocked Algieri down in the corner in the second round, though Algieri claimed it was a slip. He easily fought his way through Algieri’s tentative defense, landing punches on the inside and piling up points.
Algieri came into the fight with a reputation for his jab, but he refused to commit to it early and simply pawed at Pacquiao with his left hand. Still, Algieri’s corner somehow thought he was carrying out the game plan just the way they had drawn it up.
“You’re doing beautiful man,” trainer Tim Lane told his fighter after the third round. “Everything stays the same. Keep it up.”
By the end of the fourth round, Pacquiao had already thrown more than 100 more punches than Algieri. And Algieri rarely stopped to set his feet to punch, and kept trying to run away from the champion’s punching power.
Unfortunately for Algieri, things then went from bad to worse. Pacquiao caught him with a big left hand that sent Algieri sprawling on the canvas in the sixth round, almost turning a reverse somersault before finally landing in the corner.
Pacquiao was right back on him, and Algieri went down again late in the round as he tried desperately to survive.
Still, Algieri’s corner urged him to continue to do what he was doing, long after he needed a knockout to win.
“This is the way we want to be,” Lane told him. “This is what you wanted”
Algieri was an unlikely opponent despite being unbeaten in 20 fights after ending a kick boxing career to concentrate on boxing. He got the bout after being knocked down twice in the first round in his June fight with Ruslan Provodnikov and coming back to win a 12-round decision, and was supremely confident in the weeks before the fight that he would beat Pacquiao, too.
Oddsmakers made him a 7-1 underdog against the Filipino great, who came into determined to show he still had his punching power.
The bout was for a piece of the welterweight title held by Pacquiao, though it was fought at a catch weight of 144 pounds instead of 147.
Zou Shiming treated the home crowd to an entertaining win Sunday, knocking down Kwanpichit Onesongchaigym three times on his way to a foul-plagued unanimous decision on the undercard of the Manny Pacquiao-Chris Algieri title fight.
The Olympic gold medalist dominated the fight most of the way, but his Thai opponent never stopped coming forward and the two engaged in some good exchanges late in the fight that had the sellout crowd cheering at the final bell.
Fighting for only the sixth time as a pro, Zou was cut over his left eye by an apparent head butt in the middle rounds and had to deal with an opponent who tried everything he could to overcome a talent and strength advantage. Zou’s left eye was nearly swollen at the end of the bout and he looked worse than Kwanpichit, though he won by a lopsided margin on the three ringside scorecards.
“My eye really bothered me but I fought through it,” Zou said. “It was the toughest fight I ever had.”
Zou, who won gold medals in the Beijing and London Olympics, joined fellow double gold medalist Vasyl Lomachenko of Ukraine as big winners on the card at the Venetian Macau. He remained unbeaten as a pro in a fight that paid him $700,000.
Kwanpichit went down three times, was penalized for a low blow, and was warned for head butts as he tried to pull an upset. But he was beaten 119-106 on two scorecards and 120-103 on the third.
Promoters said that if Zou won, he would headline a Feb. 14 fight card in Macau in a 112-pound title bout, though it will probably now be later because his cut will need time to heal.
“I want to fight for the world title,” Zou said. “I want to win it for China, do it right here.”
Lomachenko, fighting in only his fourth pro bout, looked skilled far beyond his experience as he overcame a broken left hand to win every round against veteran Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo of Thailand.
Lomachenko successfully defended his 126-pound title by knocking Piriyapinyo down in the fourth round and then using his right hand to pile up points in what turned into a lopsided contest.
“I want to fight nothing but champions,” said Lomachenko, who won his title in his last fight after losing his first bid for a title in only his second pro fight.
Lomachenko won gold medals for Ukraine in 2008 and 2012 and was widely considered the top amateur boxer in the world before turning pro.
In another fight, Jessie Vargas of Las Vegas retained his 130-pound title with a hard-fought decision over Mexico’s Antonio DeMarco.
Vargas dominated the early rounds, building up a cushion on the scorecards. But DeMarco came back midway through the fight to make it competitive before Vargas won the final two rounds.
Vargas, who remained unbeaten in 26 pro fights, won 116-112 on all three ringside scorecards. He was fighting with former boxing great Roy Jones Jr. working his corner as a trainer before moving across the ring to be a commentator on the HBO pay-per-view telecast.
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