PACQUIAO'S 6 KNOCKDOWNS OVER ALGIERI RESULTED IN MOST DOMINANT SCORE IN AGES
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 23 Nov 2014
MACAU, China ? Manny Pacquiao is still the World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion of the world.
Chris Algieri remains a joke in the eyes of the boxing world.
The 35-year-old Pacquiao, considered as over the hill by the enemy?s camp, sent his American challenger kissing the canvas six times, the most in memory, on the way to settling for a unanimous decision victory.
To many, that six knockdowns is equivalent to a knockout win, which Pacquiao?s chief trainer would have wanted the fight end.
?I can?t remember a fighter scoring six knockdowns in my long years in boxing,? Top Rank's Bob Arum told this writer following the one-sided encounter.
?Yeah, it could be considered as knockout, but the official results is still unanimous decision,? the 83-year-old boxing patriarch said.
The defending belt-holder, throwing punches in angles only he can dish out, had his challenger in his palm from the opening round on, decking the New Yorker once in the second, twice in the sixth and seventh and once in the 10th.
In the 10th, Pacquiao could have finished off Algieri, but stopped his fury thinking referee Gino Rodriguez would halt the punishment.
Pacquiao administered a beatdown on Algieri Sunday in Macau. Photos by Wendell Rupert Alinea.
The Filipino ring icon admitted going for a knockout during the post-game press conference but said: ?Chris is a tough fighter and he showed how tough he is by avoiding that to happen.?
Even judge Michael Pernick?s 120-102 verdict could be the most lopsided in, perhaps, 20 years. Judge Patrick Morley and judge Levi Martinez had the eight-division champion the winner via similarly shutout 119-103 and 118-103 decisions, respectively.
Algieri, who, in the course of training complained of being looked down and treated as a sort of joke, fought like a scared stiff, never showed the speed and connected the punching power his handlers boasted even as he cowered and covered himself each time Pacquiao posed for attacks.
All three judges scored the second and 10th rounds at 10-8 and the sixth and ninth stanzas 10-7.
Algieri finished the fight with as small cut under his right eye and a mouse under his right eye.
Pacquiao was unmarked and looked ready to engage the outclassed title-pretender more.
Asked by television interviewer atop the ring about the possibility of facing the long-sought after fight with pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather, Pacquiao, with a wide green answered: ?He?s fighting me? Yes!?
A statement he repeated during the post-game meeting with the media.
Pacquiao, who wore a blue shorts with white trimming at the waist, looked relaxed and was all smiles as he walked through the hallway from his dugout and unto the ring.
At the post-fight conference, Algieri, for the first time, admitted the champ?s superiority, saying ?Pacquiao is a great, great champion. He?s so fast, it was difficult for me to keep track on him.?
Mother ?Mommy D? Dionisia Added to the drama, shown on the TV screen clutching a rosary and praying as his son passed by her.
As Pacquiao knelt and prayed in his corner, Mommy D climbed up the ring still with rosary in her hands.
Before the fight, movie icons Silvyster Stallone and former Califorina Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who both confessed earlier they were for Algieri, visited both fighters in their dugouts and stayed at ringside throughout the 12-round matchup and watching Pacquiao dominated his challenger.
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