Malignaggi Happy To Be Training at Wild Card, With Khan
By Lem Satterfield
Back in May, Amir Khan scored an eleven round knockout over Paul Malignaggi at the WaMu Theatre in New York's Madison Square Garden. Their weigh-in was also a wild scene with a near all-out brawl between both camps after Khan and Malignaggi started shoving each other at the scale. Fast-forward to the present, Malignaggi signed up with Golden Boy Promotions, who also promote Khan, and both fighters are currently training side by side at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood California.
Malignaggi (27-4, 5KOs) returns on the Bernard Hopkins-Jean Pascal undercard on December 18. The opponent, at welterweight, is Michael Lozada (39-6-1, 29 KOs). Khan (23-1, 17 KOs) is preparing for a mandatory defense of the WBA 140-pound title against Marcos Maidana (29-1, 27 KOs) on December 11.
"It felt a little weird at first, but it's all good. We actually have different training times. He's getting ready for his and I'm getting ready for my own fight. It's actually all love in that gym. A lot of good sparring, a lot of good work and just a good solid atmosphere to be training in. I'm glad that I came out here. Everybody in the gym is cool. Everybody in the gym is friendly. Everyone wishes each other the best, and I couldn't as for a better atmosphere. The amount of talent in there, I haven't seen that much talent in one gym in a long time, so it really raises my level," Malignaggi told FanHouse.
Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here.
