{"id":907464,"date":"2026-09-27T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907464\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:44:13","slug":"paulie-malignaggi-delivers-honest-verdict-on-manny-pacquiao-vs-shakur-stevenson-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/907464\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulie Malignaggi delivers honest verdict on Manny Pacquiao vs Shakur Stevenson fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paulie Malignaggi has offered his reaction to a reported clash between Shakur Stevenson<\/a> and Manny Pacquiao<\/a>, which could feature on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n

The all-British heavyweight showdown is expected to take place on December 11, headlining an event at Cardiff\u2019s Principality Stadium.<\/p>\n

That is, of course, if Fury and Joshua actually make it to the ring, as despite it being announced earlier this week, The Ring\u2019s Mike Coppinger has since reported that their fight is in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

Prior to that, it had emerged that an encounter between Stevenson and Pacquiao \u2013 between whom there is a near two-decade age gap \u2013 was being planned for the same night in Wales.<\/p>\n

Should it come to fruition, this would represent Stevenson\u2019s first outing since signing with Dana White\u2019s Zuffa Boxing, who he joined after dethroning Teofimo Lopez with a unanimous decision victory<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

Pacquiao, meanwhile, has not fought since his draw with Mario Barrios<\/a> in July 2025, when he ended a near four-year layoff and almost claimed the WBC welterweight title.<\/p>\n

Yet despite that surprisingly impressive performance, former world champion Malignaggi has emphasised on his YouTube channel<\/a> that, against Stevenson, the 47-year-old would be facing an entirely different competitor.<\/p>\n

\u201cManny Pacquiao-Shakur Stevenson has no place on this card; [it] has no place in big-time boxing. I am completely befuddled.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I\u2019m] disappointed in Stevenson; [I\u2019m] disappointed in Zuffa, obviously. These are \u2018click bait\u2019 type of fights. These are names that draw attention, so you can get people to watch. Then the fight\u2019s a dud and all these casuals sit there complaining about boxing, telling you why boxing\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malignaggi went on to credit Pacquiao with being \u201ccompetitive against the worst world champion I\u2019ve ever seen in my life\u201d, emphasising a considerable difference between Barrios and Stevenson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paulie Malignaggi has offered his reaction to a reported clash between Shakur Stevenson and Manny Pacquiao, which could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-907464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}