Pacquiao vs. Algieri Results: Top Highlights and Moments from Pac-Man's Win

A knockout was about the only thing that didn't come easy for Manny Pacquiao Saturday night.

The legendary Pacquiao dominated once-unbeaten light welterweight titlist Chris Algieri in 12 one-sided rounds to retain his welterweight world title Saturday in Macau, China. The result has already raised speculation over a potential Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight to levels it hasn't reached since 2009.

To say Algieri wasn't competitive Saturday would be a striking understatement. Pacquiao completely shut out Algieri 120-102 on one judge's scorecard and was one point shy of it on the other two, as Bleacher Report showed:

Entering the fight, Pacquiao's camp was awfully noisy about their intentions of getting Pac-Man his first knockout victory since 2009. He didn't get it, but he wasted no time in Round 1 showing off his immense power. A few of his strongest blows in the opening round nearly sent Algieri to the canvas.

But it didn't take long, as Pacquiao put him down with a flurry in Round 2—Pacquiao's first knockdown of the night. That turned out to be a familiar place for Algieri throughout the fight, as Pac-Man sent him down six times, per BoxingInsider.com:

As the third and fourth rounds wore on, Pacquiao looked to be landing whatever he wanted. His opponent was almost entirely relegated to playing defense and escaping, with Pacquiao relentlessly attacking him.

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Things did turn around for Algieri, but only shortly. His elusiveness started to work in the fifth round, and he answered with a handful of effective straight jabs. But that was perhaps the only round that judges could award to Algieri, and The Ring Magazine's Ryan Songalia noted even that was tough to do:

Any confidence gained by Algieri in that round, though, came to an immediate halt. Pacquiao started Round 6 aggressively and mixed it up to knock down Algieri with a left hook and then a right hand.

He notched two more knockdowns in the eighth round, and one round later, it was simply a matter of survival for Algieri, as Top Rank Boxing reported:

The lone disappointment for Pacquiao supporters, really, was that the fight was still going on. But even though the knockout didn't seem to be coming, there was hardly a minute of the fight where the legend looked anything less than comfortable.

Algieri, on the other hand, was running for his life practically all fight. If he had a tracker on, it would have read a mile in the negative with how much backtracking he was doing.

This tweet from ESPN's Todd Grisham summed up the passiveness from Algieri's camp:

In the end, simply holding on for 12 rounds with the legendary Pacquiao must have felt like something of a victory after the display he put on.

As hard as it is to predict what will come next for Pacquiao, one thing is obvious—it is all in the hands of the longtime nemesis he's never faced. He made it clear after the fight that he wants Mayweather next, and they need to make the people's fight happen, per USA Today's Martin Rogers.

This wouldn't be the first—or second, or third—time that chirping has come from one of the two camps, but it could be the perfect timing. Now that Pacquiao has rebounded from his 2012 knockout by Juan Manuel Marquez to win three straight, it's looking likelier than ever that the dream fight may not be a mirage after all.