Paulie Malignaggi: record, next fight and profile →
Paulie Malignaggi will not go for the EBU welterweight title. He was official challenger until last week but pulled out and the vacant title will now be contested by Ahmed El Mousaoui and Ceferino Rodriguez a/k/a Ferino V. The EBU have October 5 as deadline for purse bids or agreements.
British cruiserweight Ovill McKenzie has - as reported elsewhere - pulled out of Saturday´s fight in Frankfurt / Main against IBO king Marco Huck. That marks the second time in 2016 that McKenzie pulls out of an important fight.
Former two division world champion Paulie Malignaggi believes Manny Pacquiao never intended to retire from the sport of boxing - and only announced his retirement to snatch a few headlines from his career rival, Floyd Mayweather Jr., who retired last September.
Paulie Malignaggi Interview - Unified Middleweight World Champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin will defend his WBA, WBC, IBF and IBO Middleweight World titles against IBF Welterweight champion Kell Brook at The O2 in London on September 10, live on Sky Sports Box Office and Live on HBO World Championship Boxing®.
Former IBF light heavyweight contender Karo Murat (29-3-1) takes on unheralded Czech / Ukrainan Yevgeni Makhteienko (8-4) on EC Boxing´s show September 17 in Goeppingen (Germany) with the vacant WBA International title at stake.
Argentina's David Emanuel 'El Pirata 'Peralta (26-2-1, 14KOs) created quite the shockwave on Saturday night in Anaheim, California - when he pulled off an upset twelve round split decision over former world champion Robert 'The Ghost' Guerrero, (33-5-1, 18 KOs).
BROOKLYN- Undefeated featherweight contender Heather "The Heat" Hardy is ready to take center stage and she has garnered the praise of the sport's top fighters as she prepares to take on longtime rival Shelly "Shelito's Way" Vincent in Premier Boxing Champions on NBCSN action Sunday, August 21 from Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island Boardwalk in Brooklyn.
Paulie Malignaggi was glad to get the win — his third in a row, his first in the United States since 2013, and this one, like that last one, coming at Barclays Center in front of his hometown Brooklyn crowd.
New York - Former two division world champion Paulie Malignaggi played two roles last Saturday night. To begin his night, he was a fighter. Making a return to his hometown arena in the Barclays Center to defend his Brooklyn title against fellow Brooklynite Gabriel Bracero - Malignaggi boxed his way to a ten round decision win.
New York - It’s been back to back Fight of The Year contenders in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center which is becoming one of the best venues to watch the sport of boxing. This past weekend Carl Frampton outpointed Leo Santa Cruz with tallies of 117-111, 116-112, and 114-114. The fight was a fun back and forth fight with great ebb and flow between two of the best featherweights in the world. That’s usually what happens when quality fighters face each other.