Does Paulie Mallignagi Tell Too Many Home Truths For His Own Good?

[Gandalf]

Malignaggi comes across as decent guy on the whole, but he has obviously never got over the Hatton fight. It was a proper drubbing and Malignaggi is too proud to just admit that Hatton was just too good. I like him though and hope he can continue to build on the post Hatton showings.

I saw on some video that even that Amir Khan prick has got onto the anti Hatton bandwagon by calling Hatton "one dimensional" at some press conference. God, I hate Amir Khan. The guy is so incredibly thick and clearly doesn't think before speaking. I truly hope he fails miserably in this tranatlantic crossover. Send him back to England where apparently everyone is into him! Surely they aren't....

Sorry for hijacking the thread with that! I like the way Paulie says whatever he feels. It's refreshing to have that in boxing where it's either too respectful or just out and out trash talk.

So when Khan says whatever he feels he's a prick, yet when Paulie does it, it's refreshing?

Khan comes accross as fake - One minute he'll trash talk somebody and the next he's on a big TV channel like ITV and he tries his hardest to be humble.

It's too obvious to me. He tried the whole "Well errr you know...hopefully the best man will win coz errr we're both warriors at the end of the day so errr...we'll see what happens on the night hopefully we just have a good fight" and you can just see him struggling to say nice things.

Paulie says what he wants and it always comes accross as genuine - I think that's the part I like about him. I don't have to think, "What is he REAAALY feeling/thinking?"

Yeah, that sums it up quite well. He comes across as very two faced. He will say Kotelnik is crap and then be fighting him and saying complimentary things a week later. He's simple in the head and doesn't come across as very genuine at all. Malignaggi is much more what you see is what you get. Sure, he's a little brash, but he seems quite real.