Let the Trash Talking Begin, "The Magic Man" Malignaggi returns 2/17/06 on HBO

[-Antonio-]

Still it doesn't annoy you when Toney talks about KO'ing people with one punch (before the Rydell Booker fight he said it'd be over with the first punch he landed) and yet never delivers? It makes him sound kinda foolish to me.

Hes still capable of doing it under heavyweight, and he did wobble Peter with a nice counter right.

I know he spits out bull****, but you have to realize thats just the way he is.

[DLT]

Im going to get killed for saying this but Im finally going to say it. I never talked about the Paulie-Cotto fight after I saw it and the reason is because I actually think Paulie won. I know Im in the minority so I never brought it up because it would be one against a million. I only saw it once and I got more and more disgusted as it went on because I wanted to give Cotto the fight so I wouldnt have to go through it but I just couldnt do it.

Now one problem is that maybe I was looking at it kind of wrong and if I watched it a 2nd time then it would be a little different but there is no way he got killed like alot of people say and I think he did damn good in that fight and it was close even if he lost.

It upset me because one of the commentators obviously felt like me and he kept saying that I think this fight is alot closer then people think but to me Paulie is just like Floyd & Spinks. When they fight like that, people hate them and they automatically give the power guy the rounds. Paulie probally feels the same as me. He probally may have wanted to say that he still thought he won or it was very close but he didnt because he knew what mostly everyone else was saying and he didnt want to look like a fool.

To me it makes me scared of a Floyd-Margarito fight. I could see Floyd doing alot of good things that should be good enough for him to win rounds but people will see a couple of power shots by Margarito and thats all they will remember.

No doubt Cotto caught him with some good shots but they werent as devestating as people make it sound. Ive seen Cotto and alot of other fighters land way more bigger shots then those. It just made it look worse because Paulie's face swolle up. How much of a beast is Paulie for going toe to toe with Cotto and I think he easily got the best of it on alot of occasions. They also say that he ran at the end and grabbed but that was garbage. He didnt really start moving alot until the 12th round and maybe the very end of the 11th and thats only because the blood got so bad that he obviously started swallowing it and couldnt breat that good. He was actually starting to gag on it. Thats why he fought that way in the last round, not because his power was so devestating.

Paulie is a big time fighter and I cant wait to see him knock off alot of these so called top guys and fight Cotto again. A couple of writers feel like me but as you saw in the Floyd-Baldy fight and the Pac-EM fight, they totally rip guys who box like Floyd and they think a guy like Pac is the greatest and its just not fair. There are alot of different ways to fight and you dont have to be a Mike Tyson to be great. To me its even more impressive that you can school guys, without having any power

[Banderivets]

I dont like Malignaggi so I hope he gets Cottoed once again.