Maybe they figure that fans will be pissed that he's not fighting Floyd so the best guy to get is Paulie who has the mouth to help carry a 24/7 and make the fight sell big
annoying indeed! the only reason Top Rank wants this fight is because it's an easy fight for Pacquiao and that they want to shut this guys mouth as well. i hope that after the fight he can still talk because he will be mauled like no one else have ever seen before in boxing. Pacquiao will send him into retirement like Hatton, De la Hoya ...etc...etc...
I actually don't think Pacquiao would "kill" Malignaggi. This would at least give Pac a little glance of a boxer. Paulie has decent footwork, no pop in his punch, but he can jab from round one to twelve. We saw how Pacquiao was getting frustrated chasing Cotto around the ring when Cotto wouldn't even throw a meaningful punch. Paulie will do the same thing except throw jabs the whole time and maybe an occasional straight right. Of course, Malignaggi cannot counter-punch like PBF, nor pivot and use similar upper body movement, and he certainly doesn't have the pop or velocity that Mayweather has on his punches, but Malignaggi possesses a boxer mentality.
Pacquiao may actually want this sort of fight to go the full twelve just to lure PBF into fighting him. The only problem is since he's made himself look invincible in his last three fights and to have bad performance and win or lose against Malignaggi would only supply more evidence that he just might have been on PED's at one point.
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