Pacquiao-Algieri

Pacquiao to start sparring on Saturday for Algieri fight

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pac645By Chris Williams: Trainer Freddie Roach has brought two sparring partners – Mike Jones and Stan Martiniouk – from the United States with him to the Philippines to start helping WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) with his sparring to get him ready for his title defense next month against unbeaten challenger Chris Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs) for their boxing match on November 22nd at the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China.

The Pacquiao-Algieri fight will take place at a catch-weight of 144 pounds.

#1 WBC Viktor Postol is expected to fly over and join the sparring partners for work with the 35-yuear-old Pacquiao.

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Pacquiao’s fight strategy for Algieri revealed by Buboy Fernandez

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buboy44By Chris Williams: WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao’s assistant trainer Buboy Fernandez has come out and revealed Pacquiao’s secret plans for how he’s going to try and defeat unbeaten American Chris Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs) on November 22nd at the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China.

Fernandez says Pacquiao is going to try and overwhelm Algieri with combinations, and he’s going to be looking to cut the ring off at every opportunity.

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Viktor Postol and Martyniouk to work as sparring partners for Pacquiao for Algieri fight

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pac553By Chris Williams: #1 WBC light welterweight contender Viktor Postol (26-0, 11 KOs) and lightweight Stan Martyniouk (13-2, 2 KOs) will reportedly be flying out to the Philippines to work as sparring partners for WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao’s November 22nd fight against Chris Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs).

Postol, 5’11”, and Martyniouk, 5’10”, are of similar height as the 5’10” Algieri, and Pacquiao’s trainer Freddie Roach obviously wants to try and get Pacquiao as ready as possible for the height and reach that Algieri will be bringing to this fight on 11/22 at the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China.

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Pacquiao making a mistake by overlooking Algieri

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algieri5By Cameron Gillon: Manny Pacquiao will defend his WBO welterweight title against the unbeaten young fighter Chris Algieri on November 22nd in Macao, China, but is Pacquiao underestimating his next opponent? In my opinion, yes.

Since the fight has been announced the only subject Pacquiao, his trainer Freddie Roach and promoter Bob Arum have spoke about is a possible mega-fight with long time rival Floyd Mayweather Jr. The whole saga started at the city press tour to build the fight between Pacquiao and Algieri, and through each event they would talk about the Pacquiao-Algieri fight. But as soon as Pacquiao, Roach and Arum were interviewed away from the press tour, they would talk about Mayweather and Mayweather only.

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Roach to start training Pacquiao next month in Philippines

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roach212By Chris Williams: Trainer Freddie Roach will start training camp with his fighter WBO 147lb champ Manny Pacquiao next month in the Philippines for his first defense of his WBO title against light welterweight Chris Algieri on 11/22 in Macao, China.

Pacquiao is going to be fighting Algieri at a catch-weight of 144 pounds rather than at the full weight for the division. Pacquiao and Roach decided that it would be better for the training camp to be situated in the Philippines so that Pacquiao could quickly travel to nearby Macao, China for the fight against Algieri on November 22nd.

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Rios – Algieri can out-box Pacquiao

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pac995By Chris Williams: Former Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) victim Brandon Rios believes that Chris Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs) has the boxing skills, reach and height to defeat Pacquiao in their fight on November 22nd in Macao, China.

Rios says he sparred Algieri twice in Oxnard, California and he found him to be an outstanding boxer with excellent skills. Rios wasn’t awed by Algieri’s power, but he says that his reach and movement made him a really tough fighter to deal with.

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Pacquiao’s most Dangerous fight in years

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pac0000By Rusty Nate: There has been a fair bit of writing and commenting on the whole “boredom” that is Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Manny Pacquiao recently. It is a subject that has raged for years and having watched Manny avenge the defeat to Tim Bradley and Mayweather comprehensively beat Marcos Maidana for a second time it has re-surfaced and once again the haters and lovers are in full force.

It appears to me personally that this fight will not happen although I do hold out hope that Floyd maybe thinking to himself quietly “what better way to end my career undefeated than by having my last ever fight be against Pacquiao.”

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Algieri is all wrong for Pacquiao, says Byrd

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algieri52By Chris Williams: Former heavyweight world champion Chris Byrd believes that WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) has bitten off more than he can chew in taking on WBO 140lb champion Chris Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs) in their scheduled fight on November 22nd on HBO pay-per-view at the Cotai Arena, Venetian Resort, Macao, Macao S.A.R., China.

Byrd sees Algieri’s 5’10” height as being all wrong for the 35-year-old Pacquiao, and he also sees his defensive skills and youth being a problem for the aging Filipino star as well. Byrd likes Algieri’s boxing skills as well, and he thinks he could end up out-boxing Pacquiao in this fight.

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Algieri talks Pacquiao fight

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NEW YORK (September 18, 2014) – After completing a 12-day, 27,273 mile international media tour, one would think a nice rest would be in order. For Chris Algieri though, that simply hasn’t been the case. Then again, there are not any fighters in the world quite like the undefeated WBO junior welterweight champion and Huntington native, who is set to take on Fighter of the Decade Manny Pacquiao, boxing’s only eight-division world champion, on Saturday, November 22. The Pacquiao vs. Algieri world welterweight championship event will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View®, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT.

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Lomachenko, Vargas and Shiming on Pacquiao vs. Algieri card on 11/22

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MACAO (September 18, 2014) — World champions VASYL LOMACHENKO and JESSIE VARGAS and China’s most iconic athlete, undefeated Top-Five contender ZOU SHIMING, will be featured in exciting battles on the MANNY “Pacman” PACQUIAO vs. CHRIS ALGIERI World Welterweight Championship pay-per-view undercard. Promoted by Top Rank® and Sands China Ltd., in association with MP Promotions, Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing, Banner Promotions and Tecate, the Pacquiao-Algieri world welterweight championship event will take place Saturday, November 22, at The Venetian® Macao’s Cotai Arena, and will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View®, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT.

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