Pacquiao vs. Algieri Results: Winner, Post-Fight Comments and Purse

On Saturday night, Manny Pacquiao defeated Chris Algieri by a unanimous decision, knocking him to the mat a whopping six times and netting him over $20 million for the fight, while Algieri took home $1.675 million as his portion of the purse, per Dan Rafael of ESPN.

And nobody cares. 

Why does nobody care, you ask? 

Because after the fight, Pacquiao came out and publicly said he's trying to finally put together a superfight against Floyd Mayweather, that's why.

"The people deserve that fight," Pacquiao said in his post-fight press conference, per Rafael. "The fans deserve that fight. It's time to make that fight happen. It's been a long time. I want that fight. They're always denying the fight. I think the fight has to happen."

Amen. A-freaking-men.

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For years now, we've been waiting for Pacquiao and Mayweather to finally stare each other down in the ring. And after Pacquiao smoked Algieri, the prospect of a Mayweather fight was the only thing anybody wanted to talk about, as though the proceedings in the ring were just the preview for a movie we all much prefer to see. 

Freddie Roach was talking about it, per Kevin Iole of Yahoo Sports:

Promoter Bob Arum was talking about it.

"If boxing is to be considered a major sport the fight has to happen," Arum told Martin Rogers of USA Today. "All the nonsense has to cease. Everyone should work together to make that fight happen. There are no excuses any more. I will be at the phone. We are ready."

Heck, even Skip Bayless of ESPN was trolling—er, talking—about it:

Everyone wants this fight. Everyone. People who don't even like boxing want this fight. 

In a way, this is the perfect moment for this fight. After losing to Timothy Bradley and Juan Manuel Marquez, Pacquiao has dominated his last three fights and looks as dangerous as ever. Whatever hits his reputation took in 2012 have seemingly passed.

Mayweather, meanwhile, doesn't really have anything to lose at this point. His entire reputation and earning power have been based on his undefeated record, so in a sense he's always had more to lose from fighting Pacquiao than vice versa. But at this point, the list of intriguing opponents outside of Pacquiao has run dry, and a trilogy between the two fighters will earn Mayweather far, far more money than any other fights he could schedule.

So if the undefeated record is going to go down the drain—and Mayweather would be the favorite going into the fight, so he may uphold his perfect mark anyway—why not rinse it down with a boatload of money? 

And while neither fighter is at the absolute top of his game, each is still better than everyone else out there. In a sense, both have been building toward this fight their entire careers. What the fight might lack in the athleticism of each man's youth will be made up for in their experience, their caginess and their guile. 

It's a culmination of two of the most incredible careers in boxing history. Certainly, the two most incredible careers of boxing's present (perhaps the Klitschko brothers might disagree). This isn't just a fight—it's a legend's coronation. 

And that's why nobody really cared about Pacquiao's dominance over Algieri. That, we expected. What was confirmed after the fight was what we didn't necessarily expect but desperately wanted—that Pacquiao's camp was working to finally stage the fight with Mayweather.

Your move, Floyd. It's time.