Who did more in the sport of boxing all encompassing? Paul Malignaggi or Emanuel Pacquiao?

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  1. dangerousity

    dangerousity Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    They weren’t slick enough like Guzman or Paulie though.
     
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  2. navigator

    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    Of course Manny did more. He became one of the fifty greatest men ever to have laced on gloves and a global icon, besides. How many boxers can fairly be compared to him?

    The Magic Man did really, really well out of the cards he was dealt. With relatively modest promotional support, hands of talcum and utter dependence on his jab and ingenuity, he scrapped his way up and acquitted himself nobly against a who's who (including valiantly holding his own with the "devil in hell", i.e. Cotto in the Garden, battling through a shattered face for ten rounds to make a close fight of it) and snagged titles in two divisions, emphatically upsetting the odds far away from home for the second of those straps. Not bad for a bored, slight, unqualified, wayward teenager who rolled off his grandparents' couch and into Gleason's looking for something to do with his time and somebody to become;

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    Classic documentary, which premiered at the Hoboken International Film Festival a week or so prior to his (successful) second tilt at a world title and broadcast by Showtime six months or so later with an added coda covering his title triumph;

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  3. FrankinDallas

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    I would replace the woman on your list (Joan) with Tye Fields; otherwise it's all,good.
     
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    ^ Continuing from above, three fine articles from among the many Thomas Hauser has penned about Malignaggi;

    The first, Khan-Malignaggi: A Fighter's Code, has sadly been removed from the website which originally published it in May of 2010, but I have the text. A great piece of boxing writing, which features a highly poignant passage concerning Ronney Vargas ([url]a twenty-year-old Golden Gloves champ and unbeaten prospect who was shot dead a few weeks after what became his final fight[/url]). If there's a flaw, it's perhaps the negative note it finishes on, strongly suggesting it was time for Malignaggi to announce the end of his pro career at only age twenty-nine (with his rejuvenation and defining career performance under the Wild Card's Eric Brown still ahead of him), though many in the industry were no doubt thinking similarly at the time;
     
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    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    ^ Continuing from above;

     
  6. navigator

    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    ^ Continuing from above;


    The second, from December of 2013, Malignaggi-Judah and the Subway Ride Home;
    [url]https://tss.ib.tv/boxing/featured-boxing-articles-boxing-news-videos-rankings-and-results/17708-malignaggi-judah-and-the-subway-ride-home[/url]

    The third, published more recently, detailing Paul's regrets about the night he fought Ricky Hatton;
    [url]https://www.boxingnewsonline.net/fighting-ricky-hatton-cost-me-my-dreams/[/url]


    Malignaggi is an American classic, a classic American boxing story and one of thee throwback fighters of this last generation (the generation I grew up watching and admiring). You might not always agree with what he says, but he deserves everyone's respect as a fighter. He put his very heart and soul into the sport and gave it his all through trying times.
     
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  7. navigator

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    One of my personal favorites,

    Malignaggi on his come-up, in an entertaining encounter with Cocky Kevin Watts;

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  8. JOKER

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    Paulie was a massive POS in the way he relentlessly called out Pac for PEDs while giving Mayweather a free pass for ultra low T/E ratios, controlled drug testing, ultra late fight announcements (controlled the start of testing), illegal IV fluids, and more.

    That said, Paulie was a tough dude and his boxing insight/ring announcing IQ is/was the absolute best.
     
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  9. navigator

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    Malignaggi also has one of the only (as in, count 'em on one hand) tattoos in boxing that isn't a piece of ****, looks good/original and actually says something profound about who he is. :lol:
     
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    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    He also did this; [url]https://i.postimg.cc/y8gW0kvf/279-F0-EA9-7-B75-4-FAB-BBF4-845771-E61-FC3.jpg[/url]

    :lol:

    Anyone else remember Action Heroes? That was a really fun card.
     
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    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    ^ If anyone would care to watch, I just realised the audio is badly out of sync on this and the other upload currently searchable on YouTube.

    I have a copy of the film in my archives, will upload to Vimeo and switch it into that post before the end of the week.
     
  12. navigator

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    Done (albeit on YouTube);

     
  13. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    And he was a massive POS in the way he relentlessly called out Canelo for PEDs when we all know it was clear meat contamination. Then tried kissing up to Canelo by trying to speak spanish in an interview in the build up to Plant.
     
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    Malignaggi is trilingual. Speaking Spanish back in 2013;

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  15. shadow111

    shadow111 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Right but there was no need for him to speak to Canelo in spanish since he was already answering questions in english. Paulie was obviously trying to impress Canelo and kiss up to him by speaking in his native language, after talking all kinds of crap about Canelo behind his back for years.