Imagine If Paulie Malignaggi Had Power...

[HURTFEELINGS]

Good post but Floyd isn't feather fisted, there's a reason why Canelo and Maidana didn't steam roll him and it's because he has respectable power. People forget he was a killer in the lower weights. And Floyd has his intangibles in speed and reflexes.

thanks for being able to have a "boxing" conversation without the DKSAB's being thrown around. lol

[deathofaclown]

The fact is that if his right hand had power, he might not have developed a great jab or his boxing skills to such a level.

I like Paulie though and give him more credit than most. He's a tough mofo and could take a shot as good as anybody and never had an ounce of quit in him. I think he's done now though.

But his career also shows the difference between the power of someone like Floyd and Malignaggi. Floyd is not a big puncher at WW but must hit harder than people think because big guys like Canelo were not to keen to try and walk through him once they tasted a few right hands. I think Pacquiao didn't particularly like that right hand when he got 2 in the first round.

Paulie on the other hand had no power at all so it allowed fighters like Hatton to walk through him.

[Ham Porter]

Generic hit-and-run merchant. Give him power (planting your feet and actually turning your punches over always helps, for what it's worth) and he'd still be a very average boxer that relies too much on his legs to get him out of trouble.

[SalimShady1212]

Generic hit-and-run merchant. Give him power (planting your feet and actually turning your punches over always helps, for what it's worth) and he'd still be a very average boxer that relies too much on his legs to get him out of trouble.

Like run time thurman? Joke

[IronDanHamza]

Was just about to say the same thing lol....Cotto literally looked like death in the build-up to that fight.

Cotto was killing himself to make 140 for years.

That fight with Pauli was his final fight there.

Which explains why he looks dead in that photo.

[respectthebrush]

He's already going to the hall of fame. What do you want him to be? The greatest ever? Just look at him. Lol!!

[SalimShady1212]

thanks for being able to have a "boxing" conversation without the DKSAB's being thrown around. lol

Don't worry brother, we are all boxingheads!

[Raonic]

He can always go on PEDs.