Broner fires back at Malignaggi: You don’t stand a chance

By Boxing News - 03/15/2013 - Comments

broner44By Scott Gilfoid: In response to the comments made from WBA World welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi yesterday about Adrien Broner being afraid to fight him in New York, Broner fired back that Malignaggi better be heavily armed when he enters the ring on June 22nd at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, because Broner plans on knocking the 32-year-old champion clean out.

Broner said to RingTV, “I ain’t saying s***. F*** Paulie!..I’m f****** him up!…He doesn’t stand a chance…I’m getting that money.”

Malignaggi must be hearing his news rumors from a storybook writer because it doesn’t seem like a reliable source if he believes Broner’s having second thoughts about the fight. It’s easy for Broner, and he’s not going to walk away from the fight even with it being staged in Malignaggi’s home city of New York.

Malignaggi is complaining that he still hasn’t received the contract for the Broner fight from Golden Boy Promotions, although he’s already verbally agreed to the particulars for the fight. He just needs it in writing from Golden Boy before he signs off on it to make the June 22nd fight a reality.
Right now it’s still up in the air in terms of which network – HBO or Showtime – will be televising the Broner-Malignaggi fight in the United States.

It was originally thought that HBO would be the one that will televise it, but with Top Rank promoter Bob Arum saying yesterday that HBO already told him that his fighter former WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. will be fighting on June 22nd on HBO, it means that the Broner-Malignaggi fight might have to be moved to Showtime unless HBO wants to try and persuade Arum to stage the Chavez Jr. fight a week later.

I doubt that HBO will want to anger Arum because he’s still got Manny Pacquiao as part of his Top Rank stable, and HBO might not want to take the chance that he moves him to Showtime along with Chavez Jr. on a permanent basis. For U.S boxing fans, it probably doesn’t matter which cable giant televises the Broner vs. Malignaggi fight in America. They’re going to watch it regardless of show shows it.



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