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Pacquiao plans return to ring

Manny Pacquiao will return to China for his next fight, taking on Chris Algieri in the gambling enclave of Macau.

The scheduled Nov. 22 fight for a piece of the welterweight title held by Pacquiao comes a year after the Filipino headlined the first big fight card there with a win over Brandon Rios.

Promoter Bob Arum said Pacquiao will likely fight at least once a year in Macau the rest of his career.

“It’s almost like fighting at home so it’s a major advantage for Manny,” Arum said. “Plus if he fights in Macau he’s not subject to U.S. income taxes, which are 39.5 percent.”

Arum said the fight won’t sell as well on pay-per-view in the U.S. as it would if it was in Las Vegas, but that will be offset by lower taxes on Pacquiao’s purse and a bigger site fee from the Venetian hotel-casino.

He said plans are also in place to sell the fight on TV in China, where Pacquiao is becoming better known.

“We hope to make up for any shortfall with the pay-per-view in China,” Arum said. “The market is huge and we’re going to sell it for like four dollars.”

Pacquiao returns to Macau on a two-fight winning streak that began last September with his win over Rios.

Before that, he had lost a disputed decision to Timothy Bradley and was knocked out by Juan Manuel Marquez.

Algieri, a former kick boxer from New York, is unbeaten in 20 fights with eight knockouts, and won a split decision last month over Ruslan Provodnikov in a light welterweight title fight that got him the shot against Pacquiao. He is little known even in boxing circles, but Arum said he brings a lot to the promotion.

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