Comments Thread For: Chris Algieri: This is The Next Chapter of My Career

[New England]

You know a fighter is past their prime when they are talking moving back down in weight. Like Hatton going back to 140.

Before they move up, its always, "Im struggling to make weight, I will be so much stronger at xyz" Then they cant compete with the bigger men and need their old size advantage, try to move back down at now an even older age. Donaire going way back to 118 or whatever is an example.

Algeri is 5'10'' with a 72" reach. He has a welterweight's frame. He is just a B-/C level fighter and cant compete with an A/B level fighter.

if anybody can do it it's a nutritionist with a graduate degree.


this guy isn't shot, he's not taking unnecessary punishment, he's not some media darling who will take paychecks out of fighter's hands. i have no beef at all with the guy taking an offer and coming back. don't know what the beef is with him. he lost to errol spence. spence is on the pound for pound list and a huge welterweight, he'd beat the hell out of 99.9something percent of all welterweights in the world. prior to that he did OK with khan and put up a noble effort against pacquiao in which he got dropped six times. and before that he was in an absolute war with provodnikov. the guy has had a fine career, i'll be happy for him whatever he decides.

[vitali1999]

so you call him a prick?
chris algieri had a very good career for a guy who got a late start in boxing. now he's working with high level fighters as a nutritionist. i expect a lot of good things from him after his boxing career is over. most of these guys are out to pasture when their boxing careers are over. algieri will have a productive life after boxing. prick doe.

He sucks. Prick and all