Former two-division champion Paulie Malignaggi
By Chris Robinson
While it’s never uncommon for former two-division world titlist Paulie Malignaggi to express himself with brutal honesty, his latest rant is definitely worth note.
Taking to his personal Twitter handle on Monday evening, Malignaggi unleashed some verbal jabs directed towards eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao.
Pacquiao entered legendary status starting in late 2008 when he went on a terror through the welterweight ranks, yet Malignaggi seems to have his doubts as to whether or not the Filipino icon was a clean fighter during that stretch.
Malignaggi issued the following.
“I don’t give credit to guys who hide and duck from random drug testing while accomplishing things that seem pretty amazing. Paq should have been the first to volunteer for those random tests when he was destroying people while constantly jumping weight classes. Instead he ducked and dodged them so no, until I see a destructive Paq performance for. a fight in which he submitted to random testing I will not give that credit. This sport needs to be take in the right direction and a guy with. his popularity should have been the first one to set the example and volunteer for it. Instead he dodged it during a time when he shouldn’t. Which leads anyone to wonder if that was the whole reason for his sky rocketing 2 fame in the first place. So don’t ask me stupid questions or make stupid comments when I’m a fighter that can look in the mirror and know I did this shit clean. In an era where its become a problem because people wanna be fan boys instead of opening their fucking eyes to the problem. I felt certain fans needed an explanation because they felt I’m a hater. However I cannot say I feel the same way if I don’t feel the success was reached in an honest manner. Hope this cleared things up. now some of you can open your eyes while some of you can continue to be just fan boys. This is real talk and I’m done for tonight, I be back during tomorrows World Cup games.”
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