Malignaggi: McGregor knows it would be ‘game over’ if he fought me
“The only guy that doesn’t want to make Malignaggi-McGregor is McGregor and anybody directly involved with him because they understand the game is over once that fight happens.”
Paulie Malignaggi is at it again.
This is the second time the former boxing world champion has called out Conor McGregor since signing with Bare Knuckle FC last month, and this time, he’s going after the whisky.
Malignaggi, who has had a grudge to settle with McGregor ever since ‘The Notorious’ released footage of their much talked about sparring session in the lead-up to the Floyd Mayweather bout, said he would beat the Irishman so bad that people would eventually stop drinking his Proper No. 12 Irish whisky.
“The only guy that doesn’t want to make Malignaggi-McGregor is McGregor and anybody directly involved with him because they understand the game is over once that fight happens,” Malignaggi told Luke Thomas on a recent edition of The MMA Hour, per MMA Fighting’s Alexander K. Lee. “The show, the game, the flaunting, everything’s over. Because once I beat the shit out of you after all the past we’ve had and all the lies you’ve told, you’re done, you’re history. Nobody will ever want to remember you again. So you can’t have that. Not even his Proper whiskey would sell anymore.”
Carrying on, Malignaggi said he would ‘embarrass’ and ‘emasculate’ McGregor in the boxing ring.
“But with Paulie Malignaggi, the perception is you knocked him down,” he said. “The perception is you beat him up. Now you’re going to wind up in a fight with him and he’s going to beat the f*ck out of you all over the place. And he’s going to make you look stupid doing it. Conor knows. Conor sparred me. I don’t just beat the shit out of you, now I’m going to talk shit. I’m gonna embarrass you. I’m gonna emasculate you while I’m doing it. And you’re not gonna like it. It’s not just gonna be a loss, it’s gonna be an embarrassment.
“People will not forgive you for the loss, not just because of the embarrassment of it, but because you lied to them. Your fans will forgive you if they’re true fans, for losing. They will not forgive you for lying to them. And because of the lie, they would never forgive him. So no matter for all the money in the world, Conor cannot fight me.”
It’s teased that Malignaggi will make his BKFC debt against McGregor’s teammate, Artem Lobov, who is set to fight Jason Knight in a bare knuckle contest on April 6.