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[quote author=Anita link=topic=28708.msg732300#msg732300 date=1227481012]
[quote author=Rafa4PM link=topic=28708.msg732294#msg732294 date=1227480653]
His corner did exactly the right thing by throwing in the towel. Why let your fighter take a beating any longer than he needs to?
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To let him go down fighting, with his head held high and have no regrets. Look, all the logic in the world suggested Malignaggi would lose that fight, I'm not disputing that, he lost every round bar the first and had no chance of knocking Hatton out, but Sport is unpredictable (again I'm not saying that the outcome would have been any different) but seeing something through to the end is what Malignaggi is known for, that's the kind of thinking that we had in Istanbul, see it through till the end, no matter what. He was outboxed, but it wasn't he kind of 'beating' that he couldn't take, he took far worse in the Cotto fight, he was losing last night, but still holding his own, his corner knew that.
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Thats the thing though Anita he wasn't fighting at that stage, he was just taking an unnecessary beating in a fight that was long ago lost. I can understand that PM would have wanted to have stayed until the end, but why take the risk of suffering long term damage when its not needed?
Everyone knows that hes got heart, he ended up with three breaks in that fight you mention with one being to the cheekbone. I read the quotes from PM and even he said that his corner were just looking after his best interests............And he's right.
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Those certainly weren't his sentiments immediately after the fight, he was irritated that they pulled him as he didn't want it to go down as a KO.
I guess it made sense to pull him , but like I said, it's not really true to Malignaggi as a fighter and as a character.
Incidentally, he only seemed to be jabbing with his left hand again, not sure if his right hasn't recovered fully from his last op, or if he's just not confident enough to punch with it now. It's hard to see a future for a boxer who only has one hand. Ah, I was so disappointed for him.