Comments Thread For: Showtime's Espinoza on McGregor vs. Malignaggi Being Next

[Eff Pandas]

Clearly, McGregor's brilliant plan is to build his boxing career on pulling retired greats out of retirement.

Sh^t if he can do that fair play to him lol.

I actually think Conor vs Shane Mosley would be interesting if he doesn't just get murdered by Floyd Saturday. If Shane's arm is f#cked up doe I guess thats not in the cards, but if it wasn't thats a sellable fight. Manny would make even more sense & I'd love to see Arum flip on his opinions on MMA guys in boxing if that fight got made.

[BoxingFan82]

So if he wins somehow or looks good losing Canelo, GGG, Spence or Manny or hell even Sugar Shane makes more sense & sells more PPV's than Paulie.

Keep in mind that McGregor is an animal unlike any boxing has ever seen. He can fight Paulie, Canelo, GGG, Spence, Manny and Shane in the same night on a special "Bouncing Heads" $399 PPV.

[NC Uppercut]

If Conor looks too good (losing or not) its highly unlikely. If Conor looks too bad then its probably unlikely we see him fight again. So the boundaries of that fight happening are slim with whats likely to happen. So if he wins somehow or looks good losing Canelo, GGG, Spence or Manny or hell even Sugar Shane makes more sense & sells more PPV's than Paulie.

Panda I gotta disagree with you on this one. Paulie has bought himself, whether purposely or not, enough exposure through this "beef" with McMuffin to actually sale some PPVs. Plus u got the Italian vs Irish clash, potential NY market. Like it or not, we might see it. Paulie is a effing mouthpiece too.

[NC Uppercut]

Keep in mind that McGregor is an animal unlike any boxing has ever seen. He can fight Paulie, Canelo, GGG, Spence, Manny and Shane in the same night on a special "Bouncing Heads" $399 PPV.

.......lmao........

[Boxing42]

This fight would be great on showtime or PBC to get the clueless casuals to tune into a undercard full of prospects or underrated fighters. thats basically what floyd did he's getting casuals to pay 100$ to see gervonta and badou jack shine which is a genius move

[Eff Pandas]

Panda I gotta disagree with you on this one. Paulie has bought himself, whether purposely or not, enough exposure through this "beef" with McMuffin to actually sale some PPVs. Plus u got the Italian vs Irish clash, potential NY market. Like it or not, we might see it. Paulie is a effing mouthpiece too.

Its sellable I don't disagree, but Canelo does more PPV buys. Manny does more PPV buys. I think everyone I mentioned does more buys. And its about the money + prestige not the grudge for Conor.

And the day after this sparring video gets released if its anything like Dana & Conor said that fight is dead in the water cuz no casuals are gonna care if Paulie was in shape or 12 rds is a crazy amount of sparring for a retired guy or any of that sorta stuff.

[AdonisCreed]

I would be interested in seeing them fight but it all depends on how good or bad McGregor looks this weekend. If Connor looks silly in the ring and unskilled I wouldn't want to see him fight Paulie. But if he's semi competitive then I'll watch him fight Paulie too. But it seems more like Connor will get picked apart and no one will ever want to see him box again in life lol

[al-Xander]

This is nothing but an undercard fight. Who actually want to see a semi-retired Paulie win or lose? I just can't see any fascination for it. And I don't even care about what McGregor does next.

[Eddy Current]

I got paulie by ko. Conor will never be the samr after that beating

Agreed. Vicious Victor never seemed to be the same after Floyd KO'd him, and I have a feeling Conor is in for a much worse beating than that!

[JuniorTorres720]

I'm pretty sure it goes down sometime next year. It's another guaranteed money grab for all sides.