Pacquiao vs. Malignaggi: What a total mismatch
December 25th, 2009
By Chris Williams: With the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao fight out the window because the two fighters couldn’t come to an agreement about the drug testing methods, Top Rank promoter, Bob Arum, has said that they’re looking at replacing Mayweather with former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi for the March 13th date at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. My question is this: Couldn’t the Pacquiao team found a little better opponent than Malignaggi to fight?
That’s not my idea of entertainment. That’s like throwing a lamb to a hungry lion and expecting the lamb to have a chance. I don’t want to pay to see that. If it’s on free television, yes, I’ll watch it. But to put a non-champion caliber fighter like Malignaggi with what many people see as the best fighter in boxing is like throwing someone to be sacrificed. Malignaggi had his day in the past couple of years.
Malignaggi won the IBF title against a 37-year-old Lovemore N’dou, and the preceded to defend the title twice in two incredibly close and very unimpressive performances against Herman Ngoudjo and N’dou before losing the title to Ricky Hatton in an 11th round knockout loss in November 2008. Before the Hatton, I saw both of Malignaggi’s fights against Ngoudjo and N’dou, and I thought Malignaggi lost both of those fights. He ran around the ring all night long throwing weak shots and getting clobbered by those guys.
I was shocked that Malignaggi got the win. However, the division has improved greatly since that time with the young fighters like Marcos Maidana, Victor Ortiz, Timothy Bradley, Devon Alexander, Lamont Peterson and Kendall Holt moving up. I just don’t see Malignaggi as being in the same class as those fighters and more of a fighter that had his brief moment in the limelight.
If Pacquiao’s team want to put him with a good fighter, they should choose among Maidana, Ortiz, Bradley or Alexander as a n opponent. We’ve already seen mismatches with Pacquiao in his fights with Hatton, De La Hoya and Miguel Cotto, but a fight against Malignaggi would be much worse in my view. The only way I can see this fight lasting any length of time is if Malignaggi has hi s track shoes on and decides to run all night long.
But as far as purchasing the fight and paying my hard earned money to see it, I won’t do it. You got to do much better than this. I don’t mind tune-ups for fighters that need one, but Pacquiao doesn’t need a tune-up bout at this time. And there’s plenty of time to fight a good fighter like Bradley to step in and take Mayweather’s place. Bradley has even said that he’s willing to fight Pacquiao. So what’s the problem? Is Bradley too dangerous?
Malignaggi might be better known than Bradley, which is why he’s probably being considered over the other fighters, but you have to look at the entertainment value. What good is it for boxing fans if Pacquiao goes out and destroys some over matched opponent in three or four rounds? The fight won’t be entertaining in the least as far as I’m concerned, because Malignaggi will be so far out of his class in this fight.
Plus, Malignaggi will probably run as much as he can. That’s his style, isn’t it? He’s kind of a hit and run type fighter. I’d much rather see Pacquiao fight Bradley. At least with him, he’ll go right after Pacquiao and try to beat him up on the inside. Of course, this would be a competitive fight and Pacquiao have a chance of losing it, because Bradley is very good. But at least boxing fans would get their money’s worth in watching it.
I’d pay to see Pacquiao fight Bradley. I won’t pay a dime to see Pacquiao fight Malignaggi. I have better things to do with my money than to spend $49.95 on watching a total mismatch. Again, if the fight is on regular HBO, I’ll watch it, but if it means having to purchase this fight, I won’t even consider doing it.
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A match between MANNY P. and MALIGNAGGI will be a total devastation for the latter. Malignaggi won’t even last 3 rds with Pacquiao with his boxing style I witnessed vs Diaz! He will no longer be with his “magic” when he fights Manny. He has to bring with him several Aces to pull in his gloves because it would be a mismatch then.
Roach wont pac fight a fight he will lose, just like floyd. Look at the last 3 cherrypicks. Roach is also protecting his new pos, khan from fighting maidana. What a joke boxing is.
I say Paulie wins. He’s fast and is faster than i have ever seen him.
gayfeather is just too amazed of pac’s performance that he cannot believed he is that strong and gayfeather is frighten to fight pac FACE IT GAYFEATHER FANS IF YOU CAN’T BEAT HIM JUST CELEBRATE WITH HIM HE IS JUST THAT GOOD SORRY YOUR GAYFEATHER IDOL IS A COWARD GO FIND SOMEONELSE TO CHEER FOR OTHER THAN A TOTAL COWARD UNLESS YOU GUYS ARE COWARDS LIKE HIM
To whoever asked the question, NO, the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight is not definitely off, in fact it will take place exactly as planned. Mayweather is no chicken, his camp’s position on drug testing is reasonable, but when Pacquiao’s handlers refused because, get this, PacMan is afraid of needles (my ass), the Mayweather camp has begun to relent. Mayweather will fight Pacquiao, will rarely get hit, and win by clear decision or knockout.
this would be a pointless fight for Manny, fight Mosley instead, i doubt mayweather will fight him
Malignaggi may have chance knocking his mom out more than anything else.
Overall, I think he posses bigger balls than Mayweather’s.
Paulie will do alot better than people think, he is a very clever boxer with an awesome chin, dont get me wrong manny should do a job on him, but will be a good view!
look at it this way.
if you are going to go on a detox wouldn’t you go for a weaker opponent?
This fight will never take place because Paulie hits like a girl. Then again Arum and Roach seem to be losing Manny. They probly gotta throw him a bone/easy one just to keep him sharp and interested after the Cotto fight and that busted eardrum. They trying to get as much easy money as possible before they lose everything to Mayweather. I really wish they could work this drug testing thing out. But how do they expect to control when they are to be tested when the whole idea is RANDOM testing to ensure the fighter isn’t cycling. Do they think we are stupid? Manny will tear PM apart if they fight. Arum is setting this fight up so Manny can really hurt Paulie …hoping the visual will scare Mayweather. Nice plan Bob. It will be very bad for Paulie…I can see it…But Paulie is no Mayweather.
If Paulie keeps sticking out his tongue like he did with Juan Diaz he might end up like holyfield looking for his earlobe courtesy of Tyson but this time he will be looking for his tongue on the canvass.
Boxing fans, we should boycut this fight if it is made!!!
I Agree 100% with this article!!! Isn’t Pac a full welter weight now I tought he was the WBO Welter weight champ? him fighting Paulie is a discrace to the sport in fact im a go further and suggest that him fighting any 140 pounder is unacceptable how about Clottey,Williams, even Quintana or Judah would be a better fight than Paulie… what happen Yuri Forman hes pretty wack and he has a belt at 154 but then Pac wouldnt want to defend that title after winning it.
I agree with this article.It’s really a mismatch!
what a horrible fight match-up mallinigi is garbage. there is so many better match ups out there moseley williams urango maidana the rematch with marquez. berto, colazzo. i love to see pacquiao fight but this blood testing thing does leave doubts in my mind. maybe the wins over delahoya,cotto, marquez where tainted. the win over hatton was exceptable he has always been garbage..
malignaggi more balls than floyd hell no there the same person except one just has more talent they both run and hold and then on top of that malignaggi swears his top fighter, i do think floyd is scared of manny i mean look how he left cotto and it doesnt add up look at marquez when he went up in weight he was slow and lost all power theres just no way a fighter can go up that many divisions and be even better than at his natural weight not even barerra or morales looked that that bad like cotto hell he nearly killed hatton
The least is malignaggi has more balls than chicken mayfeather.
Yabang.Kunyari ka pa,manonood ka din.Lets see if he will agree to fight Manny.If so then he is for the big money on the table.Remember this retard is one of the big mouth accusing Manny of using PED.
just to add something, although I like the idea of this fight, dont be stupid, the pacman mayweather fight WILL happen.
don’t count malignaggi out, pacman has yet to face a slick defensive fighter. call me crazy but I’m going with malignaggi by decision, you might be surprised.
Maggi is not stupid. He’s going to hook up with some performance enhancers himself and we’ll see a super battle between Pac and Maggi. Maggi will demonstrate power that we’ve never seen him have before. All with no olympic style testing.
is it ok for floyd, ricky, cotto, etc. to fight paulie, but not for manny? come on now, paulie is more of an xciting fighter than floyd. and as skillfull as floyd. go paulie go.
I would like to see Manny crunch this Clown.
you have to pay $49 for a pay per view we only have to pay £15 which if im right is just less than $30 or slightly higher
it is now so obvious that Floyd did not want this fight. He seems to be doing this just to slander Pacman so his status becomes #1 P4P.
It is about time that Pacman sue these Madafacka including Dela hoya. I can’t believe how sore loser Dela hoya is to jump on this steriod bandwagon with Floyd. I lost all respect I have left with him.
Malignaggi fight is the one to watch anyway. It will be one big legal beating session after what he said about Pacman.
so somebody tell me…is the mayweather vs pacman fight absolutly definatly 100% finally OFF? or what?
To fight paulie mallignaggi would be like going to a live execution. Although he’d probably last longer than hatton did
IVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG THAT THE FIGHT WOULDNT HAPPEN AND EVERYONE FAIL FOR IT WITHOUT A CONTRACT BEING SIGNED! NEVER COUNT UR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH, I ALSO BELIEVE THE FIGHT WITH THE MAGIG MAN WONT HAPPEN EITHER!
I really can’t believe this. Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. are no doubt the 2 best fighters right now. No one is even close to their level. I agree, total mismatch but i would still pay for it.
SHOULD MANUELA PEREZ JUST RETIRE????
No way in hell Malignaggi gets this fight. Simply taking the fight with Paulie makes Manny look bad, let alone the possibility of a non-competitive fight. Arum is dangling the possibility in front of Paulie knowing Manny will either fight Mayweather or Bradley. Then Paulie will shoot his mouth off about how he missed out on the biggest payday of his career..hahaha. Now THAT’s payback.
got to agree total mismatch this 1 i give paulie credit because he went the distance with cotto and although his corner through in the towel at the hatton fight he wanted to carry on hes got heart il give him that . Against manny thou he will suffer a bad beating and will go to sleep i personally think pac is most dangerous at 140 and i cant see anybody beating pac at that weight.
Is Malignaggi going to demand a blood test? Probably not cos Pacman would call off the fight.
@SVB – The problem is, Malignaggi hasn’t got that much power so if a drugged up Manny can come out of a Cotto onslaught smiling (with a burst ear drum), he’ll just walk through Malignaggi’s punches.
Okay then, don’t watch the fight. Simple. Do you really have to write something like this on your website? Waste of time my friend.
It is a mismatch. Paulie will be wondering what kind of punishment he will be receiving with the steroid allegations he has been spreading. What’s scary is that he is so convinced Manny’s on roids that he’ll be thinking that he will be extra roided up during the fight. He’ll be a broken man even before the first bell rings.
It might be fun seeing how Pac tries to cut the ring off against a stick and run fighter. Granted there is no way Malignaggi can hurt Pac, but the fight may be fun for as long as it lasts.
HAHA this would be a good ko of the year even better than manny vs hatton the only reason manny would take the fight with malignaggi is because its a easy payday for manny and with all the heat that mayweather brought out on manny which i actually think mayweather hit the gspot manny is probably on some steroids or some crazy sh no top notch boxer is going to take a fight with manny without the olympic drug test so soooorrry to ALL YOU MANNY FANS YOUR HERO IS ON STEROIDS HAHAHAHA
magic man better hand speed than given credit 4 loses credible decision to pac wont b easy 115-111
I’m with you on this one. May be it’s because Pacman wants to beat the crap out of one of his accusers. Paulie will make a good pay day but he will pay for it with a bad beating.
This might not be a mismatch. Mr. Malignaggi fought a competitive fight against cotto a few years back and he definitly has a better chin than hatton.
Your correct!I like Timothy Bradley more for the meantime!Different style! No loss record and maybe some little resemblance with Mayweather.rather than Malignagi it is not a best buy.So Bradley will click more and If ever happens maybe i like also Paul Williams if he willbe available and can go down weight for the crown of WBO Welterweight division it maybe more exciting because let’s face it Bradley or Malignangi may not exceed million pay-per views hits.I really really doubt doubt it.I hope and wish Mayweather and Pacamn fight will push on March 13!I really really hope!
This guy would get knockout by Manny faster than Hatton even with his right hand(Mannys) tied to his back. PPV ? Nah, Youtube maybe.