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By Thomas Gerbasi - When you’ve died – in a figurative sense – and come back to life, what usually results is a jaded, world-weary knowledge; a thick skin that makes you impervious to pain and resistant to all the slings and arrows that come your way. They can’t hurt you anymore, and whatever gets thrown at you simply makes you laugh.
Paulie Malignaggi would probably agree with that assessment, maybe with the exception of the laughing part. Brooklyn’s ‘Magic Man’ doesn’t laugh as much these days; it’s more a sneer or a chuckle when he comes to grips with the reality of a game that he used to love, one that saved him when he needed it the most.
But after a rollercoaster ride that included mainstream apathy, a lack of recognition within the industry, questionable decisions in and out of the ring, and a high-profile defeat to Ricky Hatton in 2008, he now looks at boxing for what it is at the end of the day - a paycheck.
“It’s past the point of frustration, so I accept it, and I just use boxing as my job,” Malignaggi told BoxingScene. “Everybody gets up in the morning and goes to work; I get up in the morning and go train.” [Click Here To Read More]
Paulie Malignaggi would probably agree with that assessment, maybe with the exception of the laughing part. Brooklyn’s ‘Magic Man’ doesn’t laugh as much these days; it’s more a sneer or a chuckle when he comes to grips with the reality of a game that he used to love, one that saved him when he needed it the most.
But after a rollercoaster ride that included mainstream apathy, a lack of recognition within the industry, questionable decisions in and out of the ring, and a high-profile defeat to Ricky Hatton in 2008, he now looks at boxing for what it is at the end of the day - a paycheck.
“It’s past the point of frustration, so I accept it, and I just use boxing as my job,” Malignaggi told BoxingScene. “Everybody gets up in the morning and goes to work; I get up in the morning and go train.” [Click Here To Read More]
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