Floyd Mayweather Jr. & Paulie Malignaggi Tease Spying On Conor McGregor
We are just over 24 hours away from fight day for the big boxing showdown between boxing legend Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor. Now, on the eve of the biggest fight thus far this year, the boxing legend is throwing some last-minute fuel on the fire. Keep in mind that Mayweather is known as a master of fight promotion.
While at his final pre-fight workout, Paulie Malignaggi decided to come out and visit Mayweather. Even though he is on the Showtime broadcast team for the upcoming event, Malignaggi doesn’t seem to have any concern about retaining a semblance of objectivity. He is currently embroiled in a very public feud with McGregor, which started due to a dispute when Malignaggi was working as a sparring partner for the UFC lightweight champion.
On Thursday, Malignaggi and Mayweather were filmed by FightHype (transcript courtesy of MMA Fighting). As seen in the video, they hinted at Malignaggi’s work with McGregor was all an elaborate ruse between the two of them to spy on McGregor.
“My friend, it’s my friend, Paulie,” said Mayweather. “My friend Paulie has always been my friend. You know what, I even told my friend – my friend called me and said, ‘Floyd, do you want me to go to camp?’ I said, ‘Abso-f**king-lutely’.
“Suckers,” intoned Malignaggi. “Suckers.”
“Paulie, you mind if I sign this?” said Mayweather. “Go right ahead, Floyd,”Malignaggi replied. “Go right ahead, champ.”
“This right here, this is special,” Mayweather said. “It’s going to my friend. Listen, this is gonna stay in Paulie’s family forever. Oh don’t worry. Me and Paulie are gonna stay at the house and talk about strategy, we’re gonna talk about everything. Don’t you worry. Paulie, thank you for going over there like I asked you to do. And he made it look good when he grabbed you and threw you down. That was a good one. That was a good one. Good work! We got him.”
