In less than one year, Greenlawn-raised Chris Algieri went from boxing at The Paramount in Huntington to facing Manny Pacquiao on HBO pay-per-view in Macau, China.
This was the story of his ascent.
But the bravado that traveled halfway around the world with Algieri was replaced by sobering reality against Manny Pacquiao — Algieri could take heart from the fact that he went the distance with the champ.
