Former boxing champion Paulie Malignaggi may be willing to come out of retirement to fight UFC Lightweight Champion Conor McGregor.
Malignaggi traveled to Las Vegas to train with McGregor in order to help him prepare for his professional boxing debut later this month.
After a couple of sparring sessions, Malignaggi left McGregor’s camp because he wasn’t happy with the way he had been treated. Malignaggi was upset about photos that were released of McGregor landing damaging shots on the former boxing champion.
On Wednesday, Malignaggi answered numerous questions on Twitter about a potential fight against McGregor.
At first, Malignaggi said he didn’t have intentions of fighting McGregor, but as he answered more question, he started to hint that he would be willing to fight the UFC champion in his second boxing match.
On Aug. 26, McGregor will make his professional boxing debut against boxing legend Floyd “Money” Mayweather in Las Vegas.
Was never the intention. I'm retired, let's get excited about #MayweatherMcGregor for now though as it's around the corner. https://t.co/tH3hb3mlEl
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 9, 2017
I will say the feud is genuine but then again when u get to know the guy it's pretty easy not to like him lol. https://t.co/UNMqHqL0Hm
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 9, 2017
Lets worry #MayweatherMcGregor now. Honest though I don't see him in a hurry to return to MMA to fight Khabib who I think is his mandatory. https://t.co/3awyg6K8lR
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 10, 2017
August 26th should be interesting lol, let's all enjoy that for now. https://t.co/tkY8krowcX
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 10, 2017
Lets see how August 26th plays out, that one is around the corner. The result and how it comes about plays a big factor in future endeavors https://t.co/5YFNe6vJUn
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 10, 2017
These are questions for after the 26th. https://t.co/J8OJzHw51l
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 10, 2017
Understood, I'm just saying let's enjoy the present, the future things and possibilities can def be discussed afterwards though. https://t.co/IOBODOsmAP
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 10, 2017
Getting a lot of this but let's wait until after #MayweatherMcGregor to fight and see how that fight first even plays out. https://t.co/EvPzYPB9Ts
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 10, 2017
So was Floyd 😉 https://t.co/kOZNCFFkMA
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 10, 2017
