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Slideshow | Clash in Cotai II – Venetian Macao

  • Venetian Macao’s latest boxing event, ‘Clash in Cotai II’, attracted a 13,200-plus sellout crowd to the Cotai Arena Sunday morning (November 23)
  • The multi-bout card reached an international television audience spanning more than 80 countries, including the U.S. and mainland China
  • ‘Clash in Cotai II’ was the seventh boxing card brought to Macau through the collaboration of Sands China Ltd, the owner and operator of casino resort Venetian Macao, and U.S.-based boxing promotion company Top Rank. The partnership began in April 2013
  • A host of international celebrities attended ‘Clash in Cotai II’, including Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) and Sylvester Stallone (right), who sat with Sands China’s chief executive, Edward Tracy (centre)
  • In the main event, the Philippines’ Manny Pacquiao (right) fought Chris Algieri from the United States (left)
  • Pacquiao, boxing’s only eight-division world champion, defeated Algieri by unanimous decision after 12 rounds, retaining the world welterweight title by the World Boxing Organization

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