Malignaggi, Paul

Paul Malignaggi
Paul Malignaggi
general information
Full name	Paul Malignaggi
Nickname	Wizard ( English Magic Man )
Citizenship	USA
Date of Birth	November 23, 1980 (age 38)
Place of Birth	Brooklyn , New York , USA
Accommodation	Brooklyn , New York , USA
Weight category	1st welterweight (up to 63.5 kg),; welterweight (up to 66.7 kg)
Rack	Righty
Growth	173 cm
Arm span	178 cm
Ratings
Best BoxRec Rating Position	7 (523 points); February 2008
Professional career
First fight	July 7, 2001
The last battle	March 4, 2017
Number of battles	44
Number of wins	36
KOs	7
Defeat	eight
No one's	0

Paul Malignaggi ( born Paul Malignaggi ; November 23, 1980 , Brooklyn , New York , USA ) is an American professional boxer who performed in the 1st welterweight category. World Welterweight Champion ( IBF version, 2007-2008. World Welterweight Champion ( WBA , 2012-2013.). European Union Champion ( EBU , 2015).

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Early life

Malignaggi was born in the Sicilian region of Brooklyn in a family of Italian immigrants. His father left him at the age of six, and returned to Sicily. For reasons known only to himself, he took the nickname “Magic Man” (Wizard).

Paul had a short but successful amateur career, and in 2001 he won the US title in 132 lbs.

Professional career

He made his debut in July 2001 in the light weight category. He held 18 successful win-win rating matches against little-known boxers, and in December 2004 he defeated Mexican Sandro Casamonica and won the intercontinental WBC world title in the second lightweight category.

In June 2006, Malignaggi suffered his first defeat, losing on points to the Puerto Rican boxer Miguel Angel Cotto in the fight for the WBO world title.

In June 2007, Paul Malignaggi met with the Bahamian Edner Cherry . Malignaggi was superior to his opponent in speed and accuracy of punches. He won on points by a unanimous decision.

IBF World Lightweight Championship Championships

In June 2007, Paul Malignaggi entered the ring against the IBF World Welterweight Champion Lovemore Ndu . The challenger dominated the whole battle. N'Dou constantly stepped forward, but his punches often went past the target, and Malignaggi worked on waste, throwing accurate punches. In the middle of the 6th round, the referee took a point from the champion for a blow to the back of the head. In the middle of the 9th round, Malignaggi threw a right hook into the opponent's head. N'Dou fell on the canvas, but immediately rose. HBO commentators called it a flash knockdown. At the end of 12 rounds, the judges with a crushing score lost the victory to Malignaggi.

November 22, 2008 in Las Vegas, USA, a duel took place between two former world welterweight champions - Briton Ricky Hatton and American Paul Malignaggi. Hatton looked faster than his rival and immediately seized the initiative. Malignaggi tried to meet Hatton, but he did not succeed, and several times the American was on the verge of knockdown after Hatton's left side, and was forced to seek salvation in the clinch. In general, throughout the fight, Hatton had an obvious advantage, delivering precise blows to his opponent over and over again, while Malignaggi clinched a lot, retreated and practically did not attack the Briton. In the eleventh round, after another successful Hatton attack, coach Malignaggi Buddy McGirt stopped the fight by throwing a towel.

WBA Welterweight Championships

On April 29, 2012 in Donetsk (Ukraine) a duel took place between Vyacheslav Senchenko and Paul Malignaggi. The fight was very competitive, the rivals dealt each other very powerful blows, hematoma formed under Senchenko’s eye, and the Ukrainian’s eye swam. But Senchenko could knock down Malignaggi. Paul missed a lot of hard shots, but still managed to stay on his feet until round 9. The referee announced that the 9th round would be the last round, since Vyacheslav would not be able to continue the fight with such a hematoma. Senchenko failed to prematurely end the fight, and as a result, Paul Malignaggi won by TKO. And won the WBA World Champion title .

In the summer of 2013, in a competitive battle, Malignaggi lost the title with a separate referee's decision to the unbroken American Avenue Adrian Broner .

December 7, 2013 won on points the former absolute world champion, American, Zab Judah .

Bare Knuckle FC

On June 22, 2019 in Tampa (USA), Paul Malignaggi lost ^[1] his debut fight to Artem Lobov , at the Bare Knuckle FC tournament - fist fights (bare fists), their fight led the Bare Knuckle FC 6 tournament ^[2] .

Professional Boxing Statistics

How to read boxing results table

The table lists the results of all boxer fights. Each line indicates the result of the match. Additionally, the number of the match is indicated by a color that indicates the outcome of the match. Decoding of symbols and colors is presented in the table below.

Example	Decryption
	Victory
	Draw
	Defeat
	Planned fight
	The duel is declared invalid
KO	Knockout
TKO	TKO
UD, PTS	Judges Unanimous Decision
MD	Decision of the majority of judges
SD	Judges Separate Decision
RTD	Refusal to continue the battle
Dq	Disqualification
NC	The duel is declared invalid

The battle	Record	date	Rival	Place of battle	Round, Time	Comments
44	36–8 (7 KO)	March 4, 2017	Sam Eggington (19-3)	O2 Arena , London , UK	KO 8 (12), 1:50	WBC Welterweight title fight.
43	36–7 (7 KO)	July 30, 2016	Gabriel Bracero (24-2)	Barclays Center , New York , NY , USA	UD (10)
42	35–7 (7 KO)	December 12, 2015	Antonio Moscatiello (20-2-1)	O2 Arena , London , UK	UD (12)	He won the vacant European welterweight champion title according to EBU .
41	34–7 (7 KO)	September 26, 2015	Laszlo Fazekas (27-21-1)	Teatro Principe, Milan , Italy	UD (8)
40	33–7 (7 KO)	August 1, 2015	Danny Garcia (30-0)	Barclays Center , New York , NY , USA	TKO 9 (12), 2:22
39	33–6 (7 KO)	April 19, 2014	Sean Porter (23-0-1)	DC Armory, Washington , USA	TKO 4 (12), 1:14	IBF world welterweight title fight.

Fistfight Statistics

Result	Record	Rival	Way	Tournament	date	Round	Time	A place	Note
Defeat	0-1	Artyom Lobov	Unanimous decision	Bare Knuckle FC 6	June 22, 2019	five	2 a.m.	Tampa , USA

Notes

↑ Lobov defeated Malignaggi in the tournament Bare Knuckle FC 6 (neopr.) . Match TV (06/23/2019).
↑ No spitting. Malignaggi and Lobov at the final press conference: video, photo (neopr.) . vRINGe.com (June 21, 2019). Date of treatment June 21, 2019.

Links

Paul Malignaggi - professional boxing statistics for BoxRec

[1] Lobov defeated Malignaggi in the tournament Bare Knuckle FC 6 (neopr.) . Match TV (06/23/2019).

[2] No spitting. Malignaggi and Lobov at the final press conference: video, photo (neopr.) . vRINGe.com (June 21, 2019). Date of treatment June 21, 2019.