Our boxing correspondent, Gareth A Davies, is at The Venetian to bring the best live coverage as Manny Pacquiao fights Chris Algieri for the world welterweight championship fight at the Venetian in Macao, China. Pacquiao weighed in comfortably at 143.8lb for his welterweight world title defence, but his opponent Chris Algieri had trouble on the scales ahead of Sunday’s fight. Undefeated American Algieri could not make the catchweight limit of 144lb and was still 0.20lb over after a second attempt despite stripping down to his bare essentials at the at the Venetian Macau’s Cotai Arena.
Algieri was given two hours to sweat off the remaining weight and came back for a third attempt which saw him finally go under at 143.6lb. Despite the hiccup, which would have thrown Algieri’s final preparations for Sunday’s fight slightly behind schedule, the former kickboxer from Long Island predicted he would win.
