Greenlawn's Chris Algieri Ready to Go for Saturday's Fight at Barclays

Greenlawn’s Chris Algieri returns to Barclays Center in Brooklyn for his next professional boxing bout against Erick Bone on Saturday night.

Algieri, who boasts a 20-2 record as a professional prizefighter, completed his weigh-in at 145.8 lbs on Friday and will be in the ring with Bone, 16-2, at 8 p.m. Saturday.

The fight will be televised on Showtime at 9 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online at Ticketmaster, the Barclays Center website or at 1-800-745-3000.

Boxing News 24 said the fight is in no way a mismatch and there is a possibility Bone, 26, could steal the win from “The Pride of Long Island.”

In the Huntington native’s last fight in May, he was defeated by his opponent Amir Khan. Prior to that, Algieri earned his first career loss in Nov. 2014 to Manny Pacquiao while fighting for the world welterweight title in Macau, China.

Algieri, 31, served as captain of the varsity wrestling team at St. Anthony’s High School and later became an assistant coach. He graduated from Stony Brook University, with honors, with a degree in health care management and later earned a master’s degree from the New York Institute of Technology.

A kickboxer in college, Algieri won the International Sport Karate Association’s Welterweight and World Kickboxing Association Super Welterweight Championships before retiring as a kickboxer to take up prizefighting.

Algieri’s biggest victory to date was when he defeated Ruslan Provodnikov at the Barclays Center in June 2014 to become the WBO Light Welterweight Champion.

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