Assess this Paulie Malignaggi quote

[Mr. Ryan]

What's up with all this sensitivity from the boxing fans, Malignaggi was poopin off at the mouth a whole bunch, talking about knocking Cotto out and how he was the best and all that jazz, goes into the fight, gets his jaw broke and now he wants to play humble and have all feeling sorry for him... Fu** that Malignaggi is a "Poser"... He will never be a world champ...He looks the part, but will always come up short when he fights someone with real skills...

Do you understand how the boxing thing works? Its not the NBA where even if you dont draw you get 100 mill. You need to draw and when you don't have the big punch, you have to get the commotion moving with the gab. Malignaggi has always been the same way, he's a confident guy but he's very humble in private. Many would even say he's shy. He's not so shy with me cuz I'm a young cat, but when I see him talk to older people, he's like a shy little kid. Muhammad Ali was the same way some tell me.

[DiegoFuego]

I had it 116-111 for Cotto, but Malignaggi did good considering his jaw was broken early in the fight like the 2nd round.

[Super_Lightweight]

Even a balding, hair-piece wearing suspense novelist can come up with a nugget of wisdom from time to time.

[Mr. Ryan]

Even a balding, hair-piece wearing suspense novelist can come up with a nugget of wisdom from time to time.

For real, that was one of the most comprehensive descriptions of beauty I have ever read. In the watered down, devalued society we live in, atleast some people know whats up. It reminds me of the "perfectly flawed" term I used to describe my affinity for the non-Barbie doll type of girls I favor.

[Super_Lightweight]

People should recognize more of the young people that are not part of the herd of sheep who casually follow whatever the social norms are. Perfectly flawed...I like that. My sig quote came from a book called 'Forever Odd'. When I saw the quote I knew I had to memorize it.

[LoftyDog]

What's up with all this sensitivity from the boxing fans, Malignaggi was poopin off at the mouth a whole bunch, talking about knocking Cotto out and how he was the best and all that jazz, goes into the fight, gets his jaw broke and now he wants to play humble and have all feeling sorry for him... Fu** that Malignaggi is a "Poser"... He will never be a world champ...He looks the part, but will always come up short when he fights someone with real skills...

I think he gained a lot of peoples respect. Many people were saying that all he was doing was looking for a big payday by picking cotto and then that was it because of his fragile hands. He fought a good competitive fight, and took a decent beating while doing it. He fought through, what, a broken jaw and orbital bone? I think he showed heart and thats why. I still think hes a **** but I have more repsect for him now.

[PRboxingfan]

Yeah, I still think he's a ****, too, but I do respect him more now for going 12 with Cotto even though he was getting blasted with some shots. I also had it 116-111 and thought that Paulie was coming on at the end, probably because Cotto was so weight drained that he had no energy left, but he still came on at the end.

I don't think Paulie is good enough to beat Vivian Harris, Ricky Hatton, or Jose Luis Castillo at 140, but he's definitely top 5 in the weight division.

[Kid Achilles]

Dude I am impressed with his honesty. He didnt try and say he was robbed or didn't feel good, just pointed out that he took Cotto the distance and had the skills to hang with him.

I have to say, maybe I had Paulie pegged wrong. Maybe I'll start to become a fan....ha ha, and then people will say I'm a racist because I like Malignaggi and dislike Mayweather.

I have yet to see Mayweather be so honest and down to earth in an interview, but then again Mayweather has never been humbled by defeat.

[-Antonio-]

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."

I agree with him 100% I hadnt seen the fight until recently and I had the idea that he got soundly beaten. In reality I thought it was very close in terms of rounds. 7-5 sounds about right with Cotto's knockdown making it seem not as close. In the middle rounds Paulie was beating Cotto to the punch with 1-2s. Cotto might have slowly broke him down like he does most opponents, but it was probably his most difficult fight.

[Mr. Ryan]

I agree with him 100% I hadnt seen the fight until recently and I had the idea that he got soundly beaten. In reality I thought it was very close in terms of rounds. 7-5 sounds about right with Cotto's knockdown making it seem not as close. In the middle rounds Paulie was beating Cotto to the punch with 1-2s. Cotto might have slowly broke him down like he does most opponents, but it was probably his most difficult fight.

I dunno, I think the fight with Ricardo Torres was much more difficult for Cotto cuz Cotto spent half of it out on his feet.