Pacquiao Pummels Algieri, Easily Retains Title

Manny Pacquiao defeated Chris Algieri by unanimous decision to retain his WBO world welterweight title. Per ESPN:

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Pacquiao, boxing's only eight-division titleholder, scored six knockdowns and dominated virtually every minute of the fight to win a lopsided unanimous decision before a sold-out crowd of 13,201 on Sunday at the Venetian Macao's Cotai Arena in Macau. Now the only question remaining in his legendary career is whether he will ever get fellow welterweight champion and pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr. to agree to fight him after years of the biggest fight in boxing going unmade, mainly due to Mayweather's reluctance.

"I think I'm ready to fight him next, next year," Pacquiao said.' 'I really want that fight. 'The fans deserve that fight.''

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