Conor McGregor’s former sparring partner Paulie Malignaggi reveals why the Irishman will not fight him after Floyd Mayweather defeat
PAULIE MALIGNAGGI was recently hired as Conor McGregor’s sparring partner to help him prepare for his boxing debut against Floyd Mayweather.
Following controversy which caused the former boxing champ to leave the camp, he has revealed why the Irishman is now too scared to fight him.
McGregor appears to have knocked Malignaggi to the ground during a sparring sessionThe American boxer has claimed that the UFC star’s team edited the footagehttps://www.instagram.com/p/BXWSLydFEEI/
Malignaggi quit after member’s of McGregor’s team released images of their sparring session that were “dishonest” and presented the American negatively.
The retired boxer was pictured sprawled on the canvas from a claimed knockdown and the others simply showed him taking a beating.
McGregor went on to loose the highly-anticipated mega-money fight against Mayweather after ten rounds at the T-Mobile Arena.
Malignaggi insists that the UFC champion gave up when the going got tough and that he would also make him quit.
According to Boxing Scene, the American boxer told Colin Cowherd: “I’ll tell you why Conor is concerned to fight me, because he knows what actually happened in the sparring session. You can’t edit last Saturday’s ass whipping.
“Imagine this, if you didn’t watch that fight last Saturday night, you can take a couple of highlights from the first three rounds and make a 15 second clip of it.
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“You can make it look like Conor McGregor did good against Floyd Mayweather, but in reality he got his ass whopped.
“You can’t edit the fight when everybody sees it. At day’s end, he won’t want to fight me because he knows what really happened in that sparring session and he can’t edit the fight.
“He can say whatever he wants because our sparring session happened behind closed doors. But if it happened for everyone to see, he can’t edit that and his image is going to take a major hit.
The former boxer confronts McGregor in Las Vegas ahead of the fightReuters
Conor McGregor looks great in the ring as he spars against former World Champ Paulie Malignaggi
"I would make him quit like Floyd make him quit. And you don't even have to be that good, you just have to take him to the point where he wants to quit, because he himself wants to quit when the going gets hard."
Malignaggi has now thrown the reigning UFC lightweight champion a challenge - a "winner takes all" contest.
Referee Robert Byrd stops the fight against Mayweather in the tenth roundGetty - Contributor
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