Paulie Malignaggi has a proposition for Conor McGregor. He’ll put his purse on the line for the chance to face him in a boxing ring, for real.
“I’m willing to risk fighting him for free just to punch him in the mouth again, again and again,” Malignaggi told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour. “That’s how confident I am he can’t beat me. I’d make it winner take all just for the pleasure of putting my fist in his teeth again.”
Malignaggi and McGregor started as sparring partners this summer. But McGregor obviously wasn’t happy about trash talk Malignaggi had for him last December, long before McGregor’s boxing match with Floyd Mayweather was booked, and the relationship devolved from there.