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By Mitch Abramson - It’s never easy to trudge long distances with a travel companion.
Inevitably, at some point on the trip, one person ends up getting on the other’s nerves.
It just happens.
So imagine what it must have felt like for Manny Pacquiao and Chris Algieri, who traveled 27,273 miles over two countries during an unprecedented press tour together, all in the name of beating the drums and promoting their Nov. 22 welterweight title fight in Macau, China on HBO pay-per-view.
The two didn’t just partake in the tour but did so in close proximity, marching through six cities in 12 days, often sharing the same green rooms for interviews, restaurants and private jets, beginning with a trip to the Venetian Macao on Aug. 25, where the fighters got a chance to test their patience for the first time with each other.
“I’ve really never seen anything like this,” said veteran PR man Fred Sternburg, who accompanied the fighters on the tour. “They spent a lot of time close together- real close.”
But it wasn’t just them. Both camps, which included an entourage of trainers and promoters and handlers for each fighter, shared the same private jet on trips from Macao to Shanghai to Taipei, and from San Francisco to Las Vegas and then to Los Angeles, said Algieri, who is from Huntington, LI.
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Inevitably, at some point on the trip, one person ends up getting on the other’s nerves.
It just happens.
So imagine what it must have felt like for Manny Pacquiao and Chris Algieri, who traveled 27,273 miles over two countries during an unprecedented press tour together, all in the name of beating the drums and promoting their Nov. 22 welterweight title fight in Macau, China on HBO pay-per-view.
The two didn’t just partake in the tour but did so in close proximity, marching through six cities in 12 days, often sharing the same green rooms for interviews, restaurants and private jets, beginning with a trip to the Venetian Macao on Aug. 25, where the fighters got a chance to test their patience for the first time with each other.
“I’ve really never seen anything like this,” said veteran PR man Fred Sternburg, who accompanied the fighters on the tour. “They spent a lot of time close together- real close.”
But it wasn’t just them. Both camps, which included an entourage of trainers and promoters and handlers for each fighter, shared the same private jet on trips from Macao to Shanghai to Taipei, and from San Francisco to Las Vegas and then to Los Angeles, said Algieri, who is from Huntington, LI.
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