Malignaggi Considers Porter Better Than Adrien Broner
Paulie Malignaggi and Shawn Porter respectfully disagreed about whether Malignaggi deserved a victory over Adrien Broner.
Malignaggi and Porter both believe, however, that Porter is a better fighter than Broner, who beat Malignaggi by split decision nine months ago at Barclays Center in Malignaggi’s native Brooklyn. The 33-year-old Malignaggi will try to become a two-time welterweight world champion April 19, when he is scheduled to challenge Porter (23-0-1, 14 KOs) for Porter’s IBF 147-pound crown on the Bernard Hopkins-Beibut Shumenov undercard at Washington’s D.C. Armory.
“I felt like I did enough to not lose my title, to hold on to my title,” Malignaggi said about the Broner bout. “I do think it was a close fight, but I think I did enough to hold on to my title. I think, at the end of the day, that fight was always going to be a filler to fill Adrien’s bullsh-t resume, which is what it is if you look at it, pretty much, as a whole. But at the end of the day, it didn’t go my way and I’m not going to sit there crying over it. I’ve made my points about the fight and we go on and move on.
“And I actually think I’m fighting a better opponent than Adrien Broner. I think if you match up Adrien Broner against Shawn Porter, I think Shawn Porter beats him every time. Truthfully, on the grind, Adrien doesn’t like to fight. And I think Shawn would force him to fight at a pace that Adrien wouldn’t like and Adrien, as we saw in the Maidana fight, doesn’t have an answer when you force him to fight at a pace he doesn’t like, you know? So I think I’ve got a better opponent in front of me. I think I’ve got a more worthy world champion in front of me.”
http://www.boxingscene.com/malignaggi-considers-porter-better-adrien-broner--76302
Paulie Malignaggi rips Manny Pacquiao, loss to Adrien Broner
Paulie Malignaggi had a word for the notions that past sparring sessions with Manny Pacquiao could help upcoming rival Shawn Porter to prepare for him, and that he truly lost to Adrien Broner last June.
That word? "Bulls__t."
The 33-year-old Malignaggi (33-5, 7 knockouts) recognizes that he will be fighting "a younger, bigger guy" on April 19 in Porter (23-0-1, 14 KOs), a 26-year-old IBF welterweight titleholder who plans to "steamroll" Malignaggi when they meet at the D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C. on Showtime.
Having fought as heavy as junior middleweight and having served as a former sparring partner for eight-division titlewinner Pacquiao, Porter won the belt from Devon Alexander by unanimous decision, leaving his smaller rival cut and bloodied in December.
During a Wednesday conference call, Porter said that he considered the Alexander fight to be "a pretty good blueprint for going against somebody like Paulie," supporting that assertion with his past experiences against Pacquiao.
"You take into account everything that I've done up until this point, sparring with Manny Pacquiao, I mean, there's no better blueprint than that," said Porter, who worked with Pacquiao in advance of the Filipino icon's win over Shane Mosley in May 2011.
"The guy's got the quickest hands in the businesss, so I have all of the experience and what it takes to beat Paulie, and it's just a matter of getting in there on April 19 and doing it."
While Malignaggi admitted to being impressed by Porter's effort against Alexander, he disagreed with the titleholder's reference to Pacquiao — and that's putting it mildly.
"Shawn Porter showed that he was a force to be reckoned with when he beat Devon Alexander. All of that other bulls__t about sparring with Manny Pacquiao and all of that, I don't rate Manny Pacquiao as a very good fighter," said Malignaggi.
"I don't rate him as a very intelligent fighter, actually, so all of that other bulls__t about the sparring and all of that, to me, that goes in one ear and out the other. But what Shawn did to Devon was very impressive, and it certainly put him in a different light in a lot of different ways, and in a lot of more positive ways."
http://ringtv.craveonline.com/news/330231-paulie-malignaggi-4
Paulie loves talking shyt...too bad he is going to get roughed up like a motherfukker against Porter. I just don't see how he keeps Porter off of him.
...ill say this broner is by far the more talented fighter than porter....but he could be talking about it in a style makes fights type situation where porter is a swarmer and a bigger guy and broner is not necessarily busy enough at times and his power at 147 is still a question mark
Can you imagine? 
Please let that happen, although Thurman needs another or a couple more higher profile rumbles before that happens. I do agree with Paulie that he needs to raise his stock a little higher before that happens. I just don't think he deserves that just yet.
