Former world champion Paulie Malignaggi (31-4, 7 KOs) scored a ninth round TKO over previously unbeaten WBA welterweight champion Vyacheslav Senchenko (32-1, 21 KOs) to claim the WBA 147lb belt on Sunday night at the Donbass Arena in Donetsk, Ukraine. Good start for the shorter Malignaggi who had a big edge in handspeed and usually beat Senchenko to the punch. The champion started to come on in round four and it seemed the tide was turning.
However, by round seven, Paulie’s jabs had developed a mouse under Senchenko’s left eye and “The Magic Man†began to target that eye causing it to swell dramatically. Referee Steve Smoger took a long look at the damaged eye in round eight and the eye was completely closed at the start of round nine. After Malignaggi rocked Senchenko with a big right hand he never saw coming, Smoger waved it off to save the Ukrainian from further damage. Time was 1:10.
Malignaggi is now expected to defend his new belt on October 20 at the new Barclays Center in his native Brooklyn.
I LOVE it!!! Paulie "Walnuts" is among my favorite fighters. This has revived his career and might be able to get him a big money fight down the road with Pacman or Gayweather. His Brooklyn street fighter personality can sell PPV's alone.......
I LOVE it!!! Paulie "Walnuts" is among my favorite fighters. This has revived his career and might be able to get him a big money fight down the road with Pacman or Gayweather. His Brooklyn street fighter personality can sell PPV's alone.......
Hey Werewolf, I remember a cool boxing muesum in Vegas right on the strip. I believe its near the MGM grand. I visited it back in 1994 while in town for the Paz vs Duran fight, don't know if its still there, if so, worth it.Speaking of Gayweather, I happen to be in Las Vegas at the moment - a seedy city that gives me the heeby jeebies - and a few hours ago I was in the small Chinatown and just passed the Mayweather Boxing Club. Maybe I'm wrong but it looked like it was shut down.
I LOVE it!!! Paulie "Walnuts" is among my favorite fighters. This has revived his career and might be able to get him a big money fight down the road with Pacman or Gayweather. His Brooklyn street fighter personality can sell PPV's alone.......
Yeah, as for Bopkins , hopefully after last night, in losing the fight and title to Dawson, we won't have see him or his clown face again in the ring. I'm glad he was. Never able to lure Calzadge out of retirement. Bopkins will go to his grave by getting smacked around by a Whiteboy! LolMalignaggi deserves full credit for going to a foreign country and winning a world title.
You won't see the pampered, protected cowards like Ward, Mayweather, Dawson and Hopkins ever going overseas for a world title fight.
Malignaggi deserves full credit for going to a foreign country and winning a world title.
You won't see the pampered, protected cowards like Ward, Mayweather, Dawson and Hopkins ever going overseas for a world title fight.
Wheather you love Paulie or hate him you gotta respect the man. Hes all heart and balls, and he takes a punch as good as anybody Ive ever seen. I hope Senchenko comes back and wins his next fight, and sticks around for a few more years.
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Are you Ugly on ESB?
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you're an old, fat, bald redneck who's scared of minorities and vents his frustration on forums
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Westside - I went over to the Mandalay Hotel & Casino yesterday. Wasted trip as I anticipated. The fight museum is still listed on the lobby map, but it's been gone for several months now.
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If this stupid troll cunt gets me banned with him I'm going to be ****ing angry. I'd have gone from never being banned from a forum in my life to two in a couple of days - both at the hands of self hating losers. :thumbdown: