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I interviewed Paulie Malignaggi at the Curtis Stevens fight the other night, and I'm about to drop the interview. I wanted to get some feedback on this particular part of the interview because he raised some serious issues with this. Let me know if you agree with him, and look out for the entire interview on the latest edition of The Word, with Paulie Malignaggi tonight.
********: One of the more entertaining aspects of the Paulie Malignaggi show is the spitting, the mouthpiece. Here's your forum, speak your mind.
Malignaggi: "There's a couple of things I've been wanting to say. Based on the injuries I suffered in the fight, people take the Cotto fight, and not everybody but I've seen some reports... See, I didn't come out looking facially so good in the fight. People take that and take away the competitive aspect of the fight because of that. People see the injuries in the fight and say 'he got killed.' Ay yo, you know what, the fight was physically grueling but in the end, I got 4 rounds on two cards and 5 rounds on another card. I could've been given as much as 6. Regardless, a lot of people still choose to say I didn't belong in the ring with that, that it was too early, and this and that. What it all boils down to, I gave Miguel Cotto a solid fight. I didn't drop him like Ricardo Torres did, but I made Miguel Cotto think. I made Miguel Cotto have to make adjustments in a fight that he needed to win. With Ricardo Torres, he pretty much got up and walked through him because Ricardo Torres can't fight. With me, he had to make some adjustments, especially when I started coming back in the fight.
"I think I gave the fans an opportunity to show that Miguel Cotto can also do a little more than just ****. I think we pretty much complimented each other with that. Like I said, if I could say something it would be to those people, reanalyze the fight a little bit because the fight was competitive. If I didn't come out with a swollen face, people would be saying that's a fight of the year candidate. Because I came out the fight with a swollen face, people are to to say that was a beating. That's frustrating, but it's more disappointing."
********: One of the more entertaining aspects of the Paulie Malignaggi show is the spitting, the mouthpiece. Here's your forum, speak your mind.
Malignaggi: "There's a couple of things I've been wanting to say. Based on the injuries I suffered in the fight, people take the Cotto fight, and not everybody but I've seen some reports... See, I didn't come out looking facially so good in the fight. People take that and take away the competitive aspect of the fight because of that. People see the injuries in the fight and say 'he got killed.' Ay yo, you know what, the fight was physically grueling but in the end, I got 4 rounds on two cards and 5 rounds on another card. I could've been given as much as 6. Regardless, a lot of people still choose to say I didn't belong in the ring with that, that it was too early, and this and that. What it all boils down to, I gave Miguel Cotto a solid fight. I didn't drop him like Ricardo Torres did, but I made Miguel Cotto think. I made Miguel Cotto have to make adjustments in a fight that he needed to win. With Ricardo Torres, he pretty much got up and walked through him because Ricardo Torres can't fight. With me, he had to make some adjustments, especially when I started coming back in the fight.
"I think I gave the fans an opportunity to show that Miguel Cotto can also do a little more than just ****. I think we pretty much complimented each other with that. Like I said, if I could say something it would be to those people, reanalyze the fight a little bit because the fight was competitive. If I didn't come out with a swollen face, people would be saying that's a fight of the year candidate. Because I came out the fight with a swollen face, people are to to say that was a beating. That's frustrating, but it's more disappointing."
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