{"id":674945,"date":"2026-05-16T15:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:25:10","slug":"rolando-dy-promises-to-stop-paulie-malignaggi-names-figher-he-wants-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/674945\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolando Dy Promises to Stop Paulie Malignaggi, Names Figher He Wants Next"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolando Dy vows he will knock out former boxing<\/a> world champion Paulie Malignaggi at BKB 54: Manchester Mayhem<\/p>\n

\u201cIf my game plan and the way I see it happening, it will be a fourth-round knockout or TKO,\u201d he said, offering his prediction for how the fight would unfold.<\/p>\n

Rolando Dy will defend his BKB super welterweight world title against former boxing world champion Paulie Malignaggi tonight in Manchester, England.<\/p>\n

Backstage at the press conference, both Dy and Malignaggi are all laughs. Dy jokes with Malignaggi that he would have worn a suit as well if he had known the former world champion planned to arrive dressed sharply for the occasion. Instead, the Filipino fighter chose black shorts and a dark shirt more suited for a ring walk than a formal media event.<\/p>\n

\"Malignaggi:<\/p>\n

Paulie Malignaggi expresses his opinions on Canelo Alvarez maybe facing David Benavidez and predicts a clear result<\/p>\n

Age may well be a factor in Dy\u2019s confident prediction of a stoppage. Dy is 34 years old. Malignaggi is 45. They bring vastly different combat r\u00e9sum\u00e9s and fighting styles into this world title clash in England\u2019s second-largest city.<\/p>\n

Malignaggi enters the bout with a professional boxing record of 36-8 with 7 knockouts, having held world titles at junior welterweight and welterweight. In bare-knuckle boxing, he is 1-1.<\/p>\n

Dy enters with a 5-1 bare-knuckle record alongside a 14-2 professional MMA record. The Filipino champion waved off any concerns that Malignaggi\u2019s vastly superior boxing experience would become a decisive factor. Bareknuckle combat is a different sport entirely, he assured me.<\/p>\n

Last year, he defeated Liam Rees to become the first bare-knuckle boxing world champion from the Philippines. He hasn\u2019t fought since that December 5, 2025 bout and his fight with Malignaggi will be the first defense of his title.<\/p>\n

A lot of big names in boxing have signed with BKB in recent months. Dy rattles the names off in succession \u2014 the sons of Fernando Vargas, Jr., and former world champion and Cuban amateur standout Yuriorkis Gamboa (30-5 with 18 Kos).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means a lot of attention to the sport and me as well as an athlete, but they\u2019re all in lower weight classes,\u201d Dy said when asked whether those fighters could eventually challenge him at 154 pounds.<\/p>\n

Rolando Dy wants to face Victor Ortiz<\/p>\n

There is one name he is eager to see in the ring: Victor Ortiz, now 39 years old.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am looking forward to defending the BKB title against him,\u201d Dy said. \u201cI was watching him when I was young. It would be an honor to face him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Victor<\/p>\n

Victor Ortiz | Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Of course, the age gap between Dy and Ortiz is not quite the same as, say, the nearly decade-wide gulf between Joe Louis and Rocky Marciano when they fought. Still, this weekend\u2019s bout feels like a blood-soaked palimpsest where old title fights cast shadows across newer generations of fighters.<\/p>\n

After all, Dy\u2019s father is Rolando Navarrete, who won the WBC junior-lightweight champion by beating Cornelius \u201cBoza\u201d Edwards in Italy in 1981. Malignaggi was a small child in Italy at the time. <\/p>\n

By chance, Edwards was also in Lovemore Ndou\u2019s corner when Paulie Malignaggi won his first boxing world title by defeating Ndou to capture his first world title in 2007, the IBF junior welterweight championship. Perhaps the biggest victory of Malignaggi\u2019s career. Conversely, defeating Malignaggi by knockout would be the biggest win of Dy\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

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