Manny Pacquiao (L) from the Philippines and his trainer Freddie Roach pose during an interview at Venetian Macao in Macau August 25, 2014. Pacquiao will fight for the WBO welterweight title against Chris Algieri from the United States at the Venetian&#039
Manny Pacquiao (L) from the Philippines and his trainer Freddie Roach pose during an interview at Venetian Macao in Macau August 25, 2014. Pacquiao will fight for the WBO welterweight title against Chris Algieri from the United States at the Venetian's Cotai Arena in Macau on November 22, 2014. REUTERS/Bobby Yip REUTERS

As the fight date nears for the Manny Pacquiao and Chris Algieri bout, the trash talking and the measuring up is intensifying. The usually timid Pacquiao was not shy to express that he is not intimidated by the credentials of his American opponent. The eight division world champion chimed in on the Master's degree of Algieri, who holds the distinction from Health Care Science from the New York Institute of Technology.

Pacquiao who vows to win convincingly over Algieri, offered his own expertise - a Master's degree in boxing which he claims he earned over the course of his 20-year boxing career. The current WBO world champion recounts that he has been fighting for over 20 years and has 60 bouts under his belt, which more than makes up for expertise in boxing.

"So what if Algieri has a Master's degree?" Pacquiao said, as quoted by Joaquin Henson of The Philippine Star. "I have a Master's degree in boxing."

With barely three weeks to the fight, Pcamn is excited about redeeming his name more than a year removed from the devastating knockout loss to Mexican legend Juan Manuel Marquez. Freddie Roach and his team of trainers are satisfied with the up to par schedule of Pacquiao and are already readying up counters to Algieri's tactics.

Pacquiao likened the fighting style of the American to Jorge Solis, the Mexican he stopped in eight rounds way back 2007 at San Antonio, Texas. He relays that Algieri is tall and has the tendency to jab a lot thus, he will use his quickness and aggression to throw of the tactics of Algieri. He adds that he expects to chase the fighter a lot given that Algieri will not take standing up his 1-2-3-4 combinations and will surely resort to evasion.

While Pacman relents that Algieri is quicker and more intelligent as compared to the bigger fighters he faced such as Solis and Antonio Maragrito, the boxer who is also a congressman and a basketball head coach affirms that he will use different combinations such as body attacks to slow the fighter down and throw off Algieri's strategy. Pacquiao will fly to Macau Nov. 17 in preparation for his Nov. 23 bout with Algieri.