MANNY PACQUIAO PINAGULONG ANG DATING KICKBOXER!
Channel: Sports Manda
Date: 04/02/2020

Manny Pacquiao has competed in professional boxing since 1995. Regarded by many boxing historians as one of the greatest professional boxers of all time, Pacquiao is the only boxer in the history of boxing to win twelve major world titles in eight different weight divisions. 

He is also the first boxer in history to win the lineal championship in five different weight divisions, as well as being the first boxer in history to win major world titles in four of the original eight weight divisions of boxing, also known as the "glamour divisions": flyweight, featherweight, lightweight and welterweight. 

In July 2019, Pacquiao became the oldest welterweight world champion in the history of boxing after defeating Keith Thurman to win the WBA (Super) welterweight title at the age of 40. Pacquiao is the reigning WBA (Super) welterweight world champion and is ranked as the world's eighth best active boxer, pound-for-pound, by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board (TBRB) and tenth by The Ring and BoxRec. He is also ranked as the world's best active welterweight by the TBRB, second by ESPN and third by The Ring and BoxRec. 

He was named Fighter of the Decade for the 2000s by the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA), WBC and WBO. He is also a three-time Ring magazine and BWAA Fighter of the Year, winning both awards in 2006, 2008 and 2009; and the Best Fighter ESPY Award in 2009 and 2011. 

In 2016, Pacquiao was ranked second on ESPN's list of top boxers, pound-for-pound, of the past 25 years. BoxRec ranks him as the greatest Asian fighter of all time. World-renowned boxing expert and historian Bert Sugar ranked Pacquiao as the greatest southpaw fighter of all time. 

Pacquiao was long rated as the best active boxer in the world, pound-for-pound, by most sporting news and boxing websites, including ESPN, Sports Illustrated, Sporting Life, Yahoo! Sports, About.com, BoxRec and The Ring, beginning from his climb to lightweight until his losses at welterweight in 2012. He is also the longest reigning top-ten active boxer on The Ring's pound-for-pound list. Pacquiao has generated approximately 20.1 million in pay-per-view (PPV) buys and $1.2 billion in revenue from his 25 PPV bouts. According to Forbes, he was the second highest paid athlete in the world in 2015.

The 30-year-old wasn't prepared for Manny Pacquiao's speed in Macau, China. Former Pacquiao rival Timothy Bradley had warned Algieri that he would find out what speed was on Nov. 22. Take a look at the video below from Top Rank Boxing:

From the looks of the bout, we'd say Algieri was made aware of Pacquiao's swiftness. 

Algieri also felt the power that many wondered if Pacquiao still possessed. Pacquiao didn't get the knockout he was so clearly pursuing. However, he did drop Algieri six times en route to a dominating unanimous-decision victory.

The knockdowns began in the second round. Algieri went down to one knee after a glancing blow caught him on the top of the head. It actually looked more like a slip on a wet spot in the corner, but because a punch landed right before Algieri hit the canvas, it was called a knockdown.

While Algieri was having issues finding his offense from Rounds 3-5, he stayed out of danger.

That ended in the sixth when Pacquiao sent the challenger for a loop with a hard right hand. Algieri would do what has become his signature tuck roll on the canvas. He did the same move when Ruslan Provodnikov floored him in the first round of their fight.

Algieri was still hurt when he got up, and he would be forced to take a knee moments after the initial knockdown in the round.

In the ninth round, HBO's Max Kellerman went to talk to Algieri's trainer, Tim Lane, in the corner. Lane was in the midst of telling Kellerman that Algieri was going to knock Pacquiao out in the 10th round. No sooner than Lane finished the predictive sentence, Pacquiao landed a hard, straight left that floored Algieri.

He would get to his feet again before going down once more later in the round. Pacquiao's assault was stellar, but Algieri deserves some credit for taking some nasty shots and finishing the fight.

Algieri would go down for a sixth time in the 10th round. Once he got up, it was clear his objective had shifted from trying to win the bout to simply surviving it. Algieri did make it to the final bell. Shortly after the bout was over, per HBO Boxing, Algieri was very complimentary of Pacquiao -

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2278226-pacquiao-vs-algieri-highlights-knockdowns-top-moments-and-scorecard-results

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