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Manny Pacquiao weighed in at 143.8 lb Saturday for his welterweight world title defense, but his opponent Chris Algieri had trouble on the scales ahead of Sunday’s fight.

Undefeated American Algieri could not make the catchweight limit of 144 lb and was still 0.20 lb over after a second attempt despite stripping down to his bare essentials at the Saturday morning weigh-in (Friday night in the US) at the Venetian Macau’s Cotai Arena.

Pacquiao vs Algieri Boxing Fight FREE LIVE STREAMING ONLINE: Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) will defend his WBO welterweight title against rising WBO 140-pound titleholder Chris Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs) at the Venetian Macao's Cotai Arena, Macau, China.

PACQUIAO vs ALGIERI Boxing Fight FREE LIVE STREAMING: Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) will defend his WBO welterweight title against rising WBO 140-pound titleholder Chris Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs) at the Venetian Macao's Cotai Arena, Macau, China.

Pacquiao vs Algieri Boxing Fight FREE LIVE STREAMING ONLINE: Manny Pacquiao (56-5-2, 38 KOs) will defend his WBO welterweight title against rising WBO 140-pound titleholder Chris Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs) at the Venetian Macao's Cotai Arena, Macau, China.

DISKARTE – try translating this to English. What do you get? 

Intelligence? Strategy? Wit? Quick thinking? Street-smart? Resilience? Almost. But not quite.

You see, Diskarte is one of the many innately Filipino traits that’s quite difficult to define in just one word. It touches on the combination of these mentioned words, and then some. Merriam-Webster and Oxford may fail us in this respect, so instead of looking through those pages, we try to read between the lines. To make it more understandable in the English language, Diskarte can be summed up as: 

The Philippine national men’s football team is leaning on a couple of veterans and several fresh faces for its ASEAN Football Federation Suzuki Cup campaign slated on Saturday in Vietnam.

Leading the 21-man lineup are brothers Phil and James Younghusband, team captain Rob Gier, Juani Guirado, Misagh Bahadoran, Chris Greatwich, Paul Mulders, Jerry Lucena and Patrick Reichelt.

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