Malignaggi: "This Loss Will Always Bother Me"

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Former junior welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi says the loss to Ricky Hatton at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas will always bother him, even 50-years from now. The loss is not what bothers, it's the fact that trainer Buddy McGirt threw in the towel during the eleventh round of the fight. Malignaggi feels the trainer should have let him finish the fight because he wasn't in any serious trouble. [details]

[Silencers]

I wouldn't be surprised if he splits with McGirt, which would not necessarily be a big thing.

[SweetPeaP]

I had him down by 9 rounds and taking a beating. He had no chance of getting a KO and hatton was picking him off.

He's got a good heart has Paulie but a devastating KO would have been worse for him.

[Funky_Monk]

It didn't seem like he came to fight? So what if he avoided getting KO'd for the previous rounds he may well have continued this but there is no more validity in running all night.
Maybe he realises its the end ;o) in which ase bit of a rubbish way to go.

[MANGLER]

When you're way behind and have nowhere near enuf power to get a KO, you're pretty much ****ed. Nothin to argue about when you're admittin you were gonna lose.

[OptimusWolf]

it should bother him, he was smacked around and looked very weak throughout.

[stefjonno1]

Paulie never shuts up. If you wanna moan atleast moan about the right things, moan about how the fight never went your way, or how ricky was better at this or that, there is no point in bitching about being pulled outta fight you had no chance of winning anyway. ofcourse nobody likes being pulled outta fight with only a round an a half to go but you werent doin ****.

[Equilibrium]

When you're way behind and have nowhere near enuf power to get a KO, you're pretty much ****ed. Nothin to argue about when you're admittin you were gonna lose.

Agreed. I know some purists will agree with what he was saying. But it was pointless to keep this going.

There is honor to getting a beatdown and trying to do something about it. But there is no honor it taking a beat down without even trying anything.

[The_Visitation]

He needs to let it go. Maybe it was premature and maybe it wasn't but the only way Pauli was going to win was by KO. And he had no chance at all of getting one. McGirt warned him as well that that was what was going to happen if he couldn't get more aggressive just to leave that slight chance of the KO open. Right call, IMHO. Sure, he would like to have finished but in many ways I think the decision may have been more embarrassing than the TKO.

McGirt did the math; simply although both chances were small the odds of Pauli getting seriously hurt were higher than him getting a miracle KO.

[FeFist]

I would have been pissed off too. It's an issue of pride. The promoters shouldn't have yanked him out they didn't do it for his safety they did it because he is their golden egg well copper in his case but what ever.