Malignaggi wants a rematch with Hatton – News
March 4th, 2010
By William Mackay: Former International Boxing Federation light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi (27-3, 5 KO’s) says he wants a rematch with Ricky Hatton, who defeated Malignaggi by an 11th round stoppage in November 2008. The loss, a bitter one for Malignaggi, has stuck to his craw, because he felt that the one-sided fight shouldn’t have been stopped. But regardless of whether it was stopped or not, Malignaggi would have still lost the fight because he was well behind in the fight at the time of the stoppage and needed a knockout to win.
It’s easy to understand why Malignaggi would want to fight Hatton at this point. That’s a fight where Malignaggi would stand to get his biggest payday. Malignaggi has a fight against World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan on May 15th at Madison Square Garden, in New York. However, Khan will be getting the lion’s share of the purse for that fight, and Malignaggi won’t be getting a huge pay day for this one.
Few boxing experts are giving Malignaggi a chance in that fight because he doesn’t have the power or the hand speed to compete with the young 23-year-old Khan. A loss against Khan will erase any chance for Malignaggi to get a fight against Hatton in the future. However, Hatton isn’t likely going to go over old ground and fight an opponent that he’s just beaten, especially one like Malignaggi who has been beaten in two out of his last four fights.
There’s an argument that can be made that Khan shouldn’t be facing Malignaggi, not with Malignaggi struggling in his last four bouts and a fighter like WBA light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (27-1, 26 KO’s) ready and willing to fight Khan instead.
Malignaggi seems to be in denial about his loss to Hatton, saying “It has nothing to do with Ricky Hatton’s punch power because he has none. He’s an average 140 pound puncher. It has nothing to do with anything else, but the fact that I had the wrong trainer training me for two years.”
Malignaggi was trained at the time by Buddy McGirt. I somehow doubt that the feather-fisted Malignaggi would have been able to beat a slugger like Hatton no matter who was training Malignaggi at the time. He just plain didn’t have the power to compete with Hatton, and even if Malignaggi had run around the ring like he did recently in beating Juan Diaz last December, Hatton would have still gotten to him and made him pay.
Malignaggi says “Ricky Hatton should send a Christmas card to Buddy McGirt every single year blessing him for the fact that he got to fight Manny Pacquiao.”
If Hatton wants an easy tune-up fight for his first bout back after his knockout last year against Pacquiao, Malignaggi would be the perfect opponent. By then, Malignaggi will have likely been beaten up and taken out by Khan. If Hatton doesn’t mind facing Malignaggi at this point, he’s got an easy opponent for a comeback fight.
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Don- i agree mate it annoys me. Its highly unlikey khan knocks malignaggi out, in fact il go one further and bet for a malignaggi win. End of the day paulies got good experience and has been in big fights before, Khan has fought nobody and has no experience.
As far as hatton goes, if malignaggi dominates khan and takes his belt then i believe he SHOULD deserve a rematch with Hatton, as he has beaten diaz who hatton talked about fighting, and he would have beaten Khan who Hatton has basically talked his way out of fighting
Some of the comments on here are laughable. People posting crap like Malignaggi won’t go the distance with Khan, do you people know that he went the distance with a prime Miguel Cotto? Who is Khan anyway?
lol @ Paulie beats Khan
Get over it Paulie, Hatton beat you. Now Paulie I think will beat Kahn, so he will have some of his respect back, but there are much more dangerous guys out there than Kahn.
Hatton soundly beat Paulie so why would he bother…unless Khan gets dominated which is unlikely. I’d like to see Paulie fight second tier guys like Zab Judah, Junior Witter, and Nate Campbell. Hatton needs to comeback against a brawler who won’t box circles around him; like Katsidis, Marquez, Maidana…those could be classic brawls for the fans.
pacman will kill paulie
@ Eric. Khan has every chance of knocking out Malignaggi, but the same can certainly not be said for Paulie. The guy couldn’t break an egg with a base-ball bat!
Malignaggi is over-reliant on foot and head movement as a form of defence. He’ll need block more, in order to even stand a chance of lasting against Khan, but I just don’t see it. Malignaggi has such a weak right hand that he barely throws it, and that weakness is there to be exploited.
Khan will look to counter Malignaggi’s left, with the over-hand right, that gave Hatton so much success.
Khan’s ” what you’d call a well rounded boxer”, left-hook, jab, upper-cuts, etc, with a long reach and incredible speed at range.
Malignaggi is inferior in every aspect of the fight (apart from the chin), there is no way that he can out box Khan!
This article isn’t very good at all and is completely biased, you obviously know nothing about boxing. Paulie is at the top of his game now and if you followed his career at all you would know that he wasn’t the same with mcgirt he ruined him as a fighter and made him stationary. He hasnt lost 2 of his last 4, anybody in the world knows he beat diaz both times and he didn’t run its called boxing something you obviously dont know about. Paulie is one of the best pure boxers in the world but just because he doesnt knock anyone out he sucks according to you guys. A win is a win and it takes alot more skill to give a guy a boxing lesson for 12 rounds straight than to go in there brawling and rely on your power to knock someone out. So dont be suprised when Paulie schools Khan.
paulie would be a great fit for ricky’s farewell fight. paulie can’t punch for #$%# so ricky has a shot against an elite junior welter.
@ Eric
Paulie had trouble beating Hatton to the punch so I don’t think Khan is going to have a problem catching him. Khan has the better jab, the faster hands, the heavier hands, better combinations and is younger… you do the math.
this fight would be a waste of time,no disrespect to hatton but he dont look like he wants to fight.
You guys are smoking crack if you think Amir Khan is gonna stop Paulie, as a matter of fact Khan will get dominated by Paulie. Have any of you even seen Amir Fight? He’s a one dimensionial raw fighter with no chin. He’s what you call a
“Hype” fighter, all hype, no substance. At least Paulie can box, has great speed and a stifling jab. That will be more than enough to bet Khan. Heres a free one, bet on the “underdog” in this one..
Its just paulie being paulie chatting crap all the time for some attention. He’s fists can never do the talking so thats why hes big mouth does it.
my trainer this my trainer that blah blah blah you were in the ring son and you got hammered end of
Clearly Hatotn has no power when he wobbled Paulie like a big scoop of jelly in the second round. And the fact Paulie was holding on after every power punch Hattn threw. He’s such a whingebag!
I hope Khan or Hatton beats the crap out of this class-less loudmouth Paulie!
Malignaggi got a big mouth, that’s it!
Dam, Malignaggi must have taken more shots to the head than than I’d originally thought. It doesn’t matter whether he’s got a new trainer, or that Hatton’s a bloated mess…Paulie just doesn’t stand a chance!
Malignaggi should be worried about Khan and not thinking about the domination he recieved at the hands of Hatton. Khan’s a lot fresher, way faster, has stronger fundermentals and a more dependable trainer than Hatton. Malignaggi needs to keep his trap shut and his deluded mind on the task at hand, which (despite Khan’s ditractors) is considerable.
Yah, Paulie want revenge and Hatton isn’t going to comeback to fight at any time soon. If so Hatton vs. Paulie 2 would be good to see because Paulie change his Team and he look’s good so a rematch should happen. Zab Judah wants the winner of this fight.
I think in the first fight his down fall was letting ricky be first in every exchange. He wint get anywhere if he doesnt move forward true it would be a good tune up but hes got tought fight coming up, he shoukld be looking to move ahead in his career.
Nah… Rather see khan/valero or khan/hatton.. Just can’t stand paulie.. Hate that fool
It was an unfair and premature stoppage against Hatton and I thought Paulie deserved to go the distance, but against Khan – there will be no argument – Paulie will not go the distance. Khan is possibly the fastest boxer out there and he has power to boot. Malignaggi should forget all about Hatton and concentrate 100% on Khan, because this could be the end of the road.
Hatton, on the other hand, should go straight for Bradley but is Hatton interested in taking this fight? And if not, why not? Bradley would kill for a crack at Hatton and it would make a great fight. If Hatton was to win then it would do him the world of good, his critics would have to concede and he could go for a really big name.
i hope paulie beats kahn but cant see it , hope fully hatton doesnt sit on his ass 2 long and we can see kahn -hatton
how dare he say that bout king hatton, malignaggi is nothing, hatton took it easy on him otherwise he wouldve sent him into coma after 10 secs of the first round
Oh boy, this article is deep man but also very on point!