Top Rank Boxing’s master plan for its April 14th event will need some tweaking.
The original idea was to have Manny Pacquiao (59-7-2, 38 KOs) fight Mike Alvarado (38-4, 26 KOs) on the undercard of an ESPN pay-per-view headlined by Terence Crawford (32-0, 23 KOs) moving up in weight to challenge WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn (18-0-1, 12 KOs). It’s been eons since Pacquiao was on an undercard, and his team made it clear that Pacquiao won’t be taking this fight.
“No he’s not fighting [Mike] Alvarado,” Aquiles Zonio, Pacquiao’s media relations officer, said in a message to ESPN5’s Lyn Olavario.