The build up to the Conor McGregor Floyd Mayweather fight continues to rumble on and another controversy has arisen from Conor McGregor’s sparring partner, who had a meltdown on social media and dramatically quit the training camp after accusing him of releasing footage to deliberately make him look bad.
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McGregor had drafted in former world champion boxer Paulie Malignaggi to help him with his sparring and engaged in two sessions in the last week, both of which were described as ‘intense’. Malignaggi sparred eight and twelve rounds with Conor, and came out of it looking a little worse for wear, despite the fact that he claimed he enjoyed them both.
Ouch. Malignaggi swore not to reveal any details about the training regime to the press, but he became incensed when the following photograph was apparently leaked by Conor’s team to make him look bad and went on a rant on social media about how he easily beat the Notorious and that these pictures weren’t an accurate representation of what went down:
Ghostie pic.twitter.com/ViSNzrWV0J
— Conor McGregor News (@ConormcGregor5) August 3, 2017
Its not nice 2 paint a pic that isn't true, this was a pushdown in sparring, post the whole video rounds 1 through 12 UNEDITED https://t.co/R82BLiMMVm
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 4, 2017
The @ufc PI has cameras all over the gym recording 24/7. The video exists UNEDITED of rounds 1 through 12 Tuesday night, let the fans see.
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 4, 2017
I came to help this camp out, not to be exploited, now your gonna get the truth though. Post FULL UNEDITED VIDEO FROM TUES night #Ethics
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 4, 2017
I actually beat his ass, 24 hrsoff a flight 2 lol, which is why Im saying post the vid, I try not 2 be petty but seems it's late 4 that now. https://t.co/vSE2Iw4ffM
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 4, 2017
I did interview BECAUSE of the pics, I'm not ur average sparring partner u post pics with me media will hound me, I've said stop with pics. https://t.co/9c85977PQ5
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 4, 2017
Only his personal photographers allowed in the gym. Don't just invent you're own reality of things because it's how u wish it to be buddy. https://t.co/OsnN2AkL56
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 4, 2017
Malignaggi then did cool down a bit and posted the following apology, but it seems like the damage has already been done with what he had already said. He’s outta there:
— Paul Malignaggi (@PaulMalignaggi) August 4, 2017
So did Conor knock him down or was it an illegal push? I’m thinking it was probably the latter, but we’ll never truly know for sure without that unedited footage which I doubt will ever see the light of day. Not really looking that good for McGregor, but then again I suppose nobody has really given him a chance in hell in this fight from the start so it’s not really going to bother him. We’re all still gonna tune in anyway.
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