Review: 2014-04-19, high pace and some tough exchanges: Shawn Porter vs Paul Malignaggi gets three stars. The undefeated Shawn Porter entered this fight with a pro boxing record of 23-0-1 (14 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.8 welterweight in the world, he is the current Ibf Ww champion having defeated Devon Alexander in his last bout (=Alexander vs Porter); the only boxer who stopped Porter in a draw was former Ibf Lw champion Julio Diaz in 2012, but in their rematch the American managed to defeat the Mexican by unanimous decision (=Porter vs Diaz 2).
His opponent, Paul Malignaggi, has a record of 33-5-0 (7 knockouts) and he entered as the No.11 in the same weight class, four out of his five defeats came in a world title fights (he has won world titles in two different weight classes) and the last bout he lost was a controversial split decision against then-undefeated Adrien Broner (fight valid for the WBA Ww title, Broner vs Malignaggi); currently the #1 in this division is Floyd Mayweather Jr. Porter vs Malignaggi is valid for the IBF welterweight title (Porter’s first defense); undercard of Bernard Hopkins vs Beibut Shumenov. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2014-04-19
Where: DC Armory, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Division: welterweight (147 lbs, 66.7 kg)
Title: IBF welterweight title
Porter’s previous fight: Devon Alexander vs Shawn Porter
Malignaggi’s previous fight: Zab Judah vs Paul Malignaggi
Porter’s next fight: Shawn Porter vs Kell Brook
Malignaggi’s next fight: Danny Garcia vs Paul Malignaggi
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There are nicer ways to retire. You can get a gold watch, for instance, or, depending on the cheapness of your employer, maybe a plaque that reads “World’s Best Photocopy Machine Operator.” Poor Pauli, if he has any sense, will realize his retirement gift was Shawn Porter leaving Pauli’s head still attached to the neck.
If he got up and continued on he would have been knock the f*ck out. I use to like Pauli he was very confident on press conferences yea Pauli u got knocked the f*ck out. Maybe Pauli didn’t trained for this fight or he didn’t knew how the guy fought f*ck this i’m no fan of Pauli anymore
Porter did exactly what he should have.
Hope he keeps going as he is now.
And yes PM should think about retiring.
He has lost more than one step.
Porter looking like a young Mike Tyson. This kind of power in the WW division is exciting. At 26, the sky is the limit. He’s got a great attitude – great team. Would love to see him go very far!
Kell Brook will dance around Porter all day long and pepper him with fast combinations…Porter is very good but Kell Brooks accuracy and hand speed is too much I’m afraid…and he certantly won’t stand there and become a punching bag for Porter.
Not particularly impressed with Porter as much as I am disappointed with Pauli. Porter was swinging wildly and Pauli was just allowing himself to get caught by leaping left hooks. Porter was coming off balance reaching with those big punches and why not if Pauli was not countering? Eventually one of those shots will land, so you have to stop him from throwing like that.
Its a good win, but overpowering a shop worn Malignaggi doesn’t answer a lot of questions.
Pauline was never good. Pillow fisted along with terrible defence with anyone who could jab plus being weak bodied.
Pauline was never good. Pillow fisted along with terrible defence with anyone who could jab plus being weak bodied.