Former boxing champion Paul Malignaggi and UFC superstar Conor McGregor have been going at it ever since a series of sparring photos were leaked to the public from McGregor’s training camp. With McGregor now coming off of a TKO loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in his boxing debut, Malignaggi is looking to put “Notorious” on a losing streak.
Speaking to Fight Hype, Malignaggi revealed that there are currently negotiations underway concerning a fight between the former boxing champion and Conor McGregor.
Here is what Malignaggi had to say:
“I know Al Haymon’s talking with Dana White. I know they’re speaking so if they want the fight they’ll make it. You know, I don’t need to do all that because Al Haymon makes anything he wants happen, happen. Once I spoke to Team Haymon and they told me they were on board to make this fight I knew they only way it wouldn’t happen is if this guy doesn’t have absolutely any balls to make it.
“But this fight would pay him more, this fight would get him more exposure, this fight is a bigger fight than anything else he has. There’s no more Mayweather fight, this fight is the biggest fight there is. So once they told me that I said ‘alright, the only way this doesn’t happen is if this guy has no balls — which wouldn’t surprise me because he has no balls — but what I’m saying is, the way they’re going to present it to him, it’s going to be presented in a way where he really shouldn’t turn it down.
“Even if it’s not the next fight, even if it’s an MMA fight in his next fight, there’s no way he should be walking away from this fight unless he has no balls.”
