This week’s forty-seventh edition of On the Ropes featured three live exclusive interviews: Paulie Malignaggi, Sugar Ray Phillips, and young prospect Shawn Porter.
Highlighting this episode was the very interesting interview with former IBF junior welterweight champion, Paulie Malignaggi. Paulie had some very interesting things to say. Here are some excerpts from the interview:
On the upcoming mega bout between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto: “I see Cotto actually stopping Pacquiao. I believe everybody is on the Pacquiao bandwagon right now, but it a lot of it has to do with the Ricky Hatton knockout, and again, I will go back and say it—Ricky Hatton was not as good people made him out to be.”
More on Cotto-Pacquiao: “At the end of the day I don’t believe Manny Pacquiao is the best fighter Miguel Cotto has ever fought in his career, but I believe Miguel Cotto will be the best fighter Manny Pacquiao’s fought in his career—at least with Miguel Cotto in his prime, the way he is now.”
