Of course. Malignaggi was getting humiliated and taking more punishment than he needed though, so it made sense to stop it rather than risk getting KO'd (which is more embarrassing for Paulie).
You may laugh at this but the punch hatton hit him with in the 2nd round, i personally thought killed him and he wasnt the same after that. I Know it didnt break any bones but it certanly did more damage from other view points than what cotto landed.
As far as the stoppage goes
At the end of day he wasn't listening to his trainer, thats not good, can mean your out of it. Yeh paulies record will look worse but it may mean he will still be peaking for fights in the future.
We've all seen it before those fights can finish guys. Im sure McGirt was thinking that.
When somebody says "You gotta fight or I'm stopping this" and you go out and throw absolutely nothing, hang your chin out in the same place over and over and get hit with pretty much every telegraphed punch he threw, you have no grounds to complain when your trainer is true to his word.
I see this 2 ways: on the one hand, it is ridiculous that the fight was stopped in the 11th round when Paulie didn't at all look hurt(at the time of the stoppage) so it was unfair in that sense. but on the other hand, Mcgirt did tell him in the corner before the 11th round started that he was gonna throw the towel if he didn't fight back so all malignaggi had to do was fight back and he didn't so Mcgirt had to execute some tough love.
you can't blame anyone in that situation really. it is what it is.
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