Manny Pacquiao threw down a challenge to Floyd Mayweather after demolishing Chris Alg
ieri on Sunday.
“I really want the fight [against Mayweather]. The fans deserve it,” said Pacquiao after beating Algieri on points in Macau, and then imitating a new TV commercial in which he mocks Mayweather.
Pacquiao’s victory will inevitably heighten calls for him to face the unbeaten Mayweather in what could be the first billion-dollar fight in history.
Pacquiao comprehensively dismantled Algieri to retain his WBO welterweight title. He knock the American challenger down six times and won 119-103 on two cards and 120-102 on the third.
Algieri, the unbeaten WBO light-welterweight champion, was outclassed from the start. The former eight-division champion landed punches at will as the quick Algieri tried to run, slip and hide from the onslaught.
But Packman the congressman from Sarangani province in the Philippines really turned it when he smashed Algieri to the canvas with a devastating straight left in the sixth. The American only just beat the count and dropped to one knee moments later as blows rained in from all angles.
In the build-up to the fight, his trainer, Tim Lane, had predicted that Algieri would destroy Pacquiao by “master boxing”.
They proved hollow words and Pacquiao’s Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach mocked them afterwards. “The master boxer was given a master class by Professor Pacquiao,” said Roach.