Paul Maliganngi is still in a holding period, waiting for all the elements of a deal to fight in Abu Dhabi on May 18, against Argentine Diego Chaves, to jell. "Supposedly, everything is agreed to in principle," he said.
The offers, callouts and disses flow like New Year's resolutions on Jan. 1, and Paul Malignaggi generally treats them like most people do their own resolutions after a few weeks -- with indifference. Sunday night on the Internet radio show KO Lounge, prospect Keith Thurman said he wanted a piece of Paulie.
Shane Mosley told Marcos Villegas of Fight Hub TV that he will fight Paul Malignaggi on June 8, according to Villegas. Not so fast, says Malignaggi. "I turned them down because I haven't got the offer I want," said Malignaggi, who was fairly confident a deal could be hashed out between his promoter, Golden Boy, and Mosley, him, and Showtime, who would televise the scrap, on April 27, in Brooklyn.
UPDATE: The LA Times' Lance Pugmire reports that the Devon Alexander title defense versus Kell Brook has been reset to March 2. A Ricky Hatton fight went down the tubes when Hatton got starched, Alexander looks to be booked.
Shane Mosley was last seen in a ring continuing a sad and never to be eradicated fight game tradition -- he was the sacrifice offered to the young lion, on this occasion Canelo Alvarez, on a Las Vegas altar-ring.
About 40 minutes after he had been handled by Austin Trout at Madison Square Garden, Miguel Cotto addressed the media in a postfight media conference. His face looked like it had been run over by a tractor with poison-ivy studded tires.
Paul Malignaggi likes the seasoned pro who has been successful on the big stage over the under-the-radar titlist at MSG on Saturday night. "Miguel Cotto's experience will win the fight," the just-turned-32-year-old WBA welterweight champion told NYFightBlog when asked for his assessment of the clash between Cotto and WBA junior middle champ Austin Tout.
That boxing is a zero-sum endeavor was plainly apparent when Ricky Hatton, in front of 19,999 fans at Manchester Arena in England -- I have to figure his foe's missus was there to root him on -- went down from a left hook to the liver, and couldn't rise before the count of 10.
Ricky Hatton came back after 42 months off, and was stopped in Round 9 by ex-welterweight champ Vyacheslav Senchenko in Manchester, England -- Hatton's stomping grounds. A left-hook liver shot sent Hatton down, and he tried mightily to get up, but he heard the count of 10.
On a Monday conference call to hype his Saturday comeback fight against Vyacheslav Senchenko, beloved Brit pugilistic icon Ricky Hatton said he was keen on meeting Paul Malignaggi, in Brooklyn, N.Y., for his next bout if things go smoothly Saturday in England.
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