By Chris Williams: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has former WBO light welterweight champion Mike Alvarado 34-3, 23 KOs) and #2 WBC, #4 WBO Luis Carlos Abregu (36-1, 29 KO’s) on standby as a backup plan for one of them to fight WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KO’s) if the negotiations with WBO light welterweight champion Chris Algieri (20-0, 8 KO’s) fail to work out for the 35-year-old Pacquiao’s November 22nd fight in Macao, China, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN.
Both Abregu and Alvarado are promoted by Arum, and would be easy for him to match up with Pacquiao in the event that things don’t work out with Algieri in trying to put the fight together.