We had the chance to have a good discussion with returning guest, Paul Malignaggi. Here is what he had to say:
On suspicions that Pacquiao is doing something illegal and undetectable: “I believe he (Pacquiao) is doing something illegal but there’s no positive drug test. Since the David Diaz fight you have seen a monster change in Manny Pacquiao.”
On a potential Pacquiao-Mayweather fight: “It’s a shame, and I hate to say it, but Pacquiao stops Floyd Mayweather. I think Floyd is the best fighter I’ve ever seen put on a pair of boxing gloves, but you can’t beat Superman if you’re human.”
On his victory in his rematch with Juan Diaz: “I felt good. I think I felt even better during camp. I felt good during the fight but I just started to maybe lose focus maybe playing around a little too much, not that I regret playing around, because I enjoy playing around in there when I’m fighting, but a couple of times it made me not execute on some of the opportunities I might have had.”
Regarding why he enjoys clowning around inside the ring: “I almost became, I’m not going to say “bored” because I think a lot of fighters use that excuse, ‘I got bored in there’. I was not really ‘bored’ but I wanted to make it more interesting. A lot of my fights, when I start dominating and winning on points, it becomes monotonous and what I mean by monotonous is you start seeing the same thing every round with me just dominating and out boxing guys. It almost becomes monotonous to me sometimes, so I think the clowning around it keeps the crowd involved and keeps everyone wondering.”
Regarding the Klitschko brothers: “We were talking about Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko. To me, Wladimir Klitschko is better than Vitali Klitschko but the overall opinion is that Vitali is better than Wladimir. Now why is that? Because Wladimir took a couple of bad losses in his career and Vitali showed a little bit of toughness.”
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