Hatton and Malignaggi make weight and face off above.
Latest Boxing News - Ricky Hatton made weight right on the limit for Saturday’s junior-welterweight fight with American Paulie Malignaggi at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Friday night. Stripped down to his underwear, Hatton, 30, climbed onto the scales and belied suggestions circulating in American boxing circles that he was struggling with his weight, as he looked a lean and trim 140 pounds. Malignaggi, 27, comfortably made weight...Read Full Story
Here comes the main event between Juan Diaz versus Paulie Malignaggi. There has been some controversy building up to this fight. Malignaggi has complained that "the deck is stacked" in favor of Diaz. Diaz is from Houston, TX and got 3 out of the 4 hometown officials for the fight. Harold Leaderman says that Malignaggi has every right to be upset because there is usually 1 hometown official for each fighter plus 2 other neutral officials. We'll see how the officiating plays out. Malignaggi has...Read Full Story
Manchester, England is the site for Ricky Hatton's homecoming fight, but first up is Paulie Malignaggi's rematch with Lovemore N'dou, a fight that wasn't exactly competitive the first time around. A video package takes us inside the head of the Magic Man, who promises to excite the crowd with flashy combinations. He'll have to hope that's enough to do it, because he doesn't get it done with his power. The announcers discuss the fact that Paulie's trainer wasn't thrilled that Malignaggi moved...Read Full Story
Ricky Hatton and Paulie Malignaggi left bad last impressions in separate fights meant to sell the idea of them fighting one another. Hatton, coming back from a knockout loss in the biggest match of his career, struggled mightily with Juan Lazcano, even more mightily than I expected him to -- and I expected him to struggle with Lazcano more than most people did. On the same card in May, Malignaggi struggled mightily with Lovemore N'Dou, a man he'd rather easily defeated one year earlier, in...Read Full Story
The Franchise says... Ricky Hatton returns home to soak in the adulation of his enthusiastic fans and, he hopes, set his career back on track after getting knocked out by Floyd Mayweather last December. It's tough to tell what to make of his opponent, Juan Lazcano , who hasn't fought since a February, 2007 points loss to Vivian Harris. The Hitman's home court advantage is likely to manifest itself not only on the scorecards, but also in the way the fight is officiated. If Hatton is allowed to...Read Full Story
Malignaggi went on to say that Golden Boy had offered them the chance to fight on May 5 on the Mayweather-Miguel Cotto pay-per-view undercard and that he immediately accepted. "Robert, I accepted the challenge to fight you within two hours of being offered ...
Former junior welterweight champ Paulie Malignaggi (30-4, 6 KOs) is intent upon looking a gift horse in the mouth as he has decided to hold out for a bigger share of the purse against WBA welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko (32-0, 21 KOs).
The dramatic press battle between representatives for WBA welterweight titleholder Vyacheslav Senchenko and Paulie Malignaggi continues to rage, with both sides blaming the other for a fight that probably won't happen. That or they're trying to ...
Paulie Malignaggi threw a shot at Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero on Friday afternooon, with this open letter. Then the Ghost countered with a stiff shot back at Malignaggi, in a release found underneath Paulie's letter. An Open Letter To Robert “The ...
issued by former IBF light welterweight king Paulie Malignaggi, who was designated as the next challenger to Senchenko during recent WBA convention in Donetsk, Ukraine. “Malignaggi says he doesn’t want to sign a contract, coming forward with ...
Ricky Hatton vs. Paulie Malignaggi, a scheduled 12-round battle for Hatton's Ring Magazine and IBO Junior Welterweight titles, is presented by Golden Boy Promotions in association with Punch Promotions and DiBella Entertainment and sponsored by ...
Paul "Paulie" Malignaggi aka "The Magic Man", (born November 23, 1980 in New York, USA) is a professional boxer from Brooklyn, New York. He is a former IBF junior welterweight ...