{"id":668582,"date":"2026-05-14T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668582\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:09:13","slug":"malignaggi-mcgregor-will-never-fight-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668582\/","title":{"rendered":"Malignaggi: McGregor Will Never Fight Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paulie Malignaggi has written off any prospect of a fight with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/conor-mcgregor\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conor McGregor<\/a>, insisting the unreleased footage from their 2017 sparring sessions would vindicate everything he has said about the incident that turned the two men into enemies. <\/p>\n<p>The dispute between Malignaggi and McGregor dates to 2017, when McGregor released footage from their sparring sessions ahead of his boxing match with <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnews.com\/fighter\/floyd-mayweather\/\" class=\"internal-link text-bone underline decoration-ash\/30 hover:decoration-gold underline-offset-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a>. The clips showed Malignaggi on the canvas, which McGregor presented as a knockdown. <\/p>\n<p>Malignaggi has consistently maintained it was a push and has spent the years since demanding the release of the full twelve rounds of footage \u2014 material that, he argues, tells a fundamentally different story to the highlights McGregor made public. That footage has never been released.<\/p>\n<p>Malignaggi Reacts<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve probably got a better chance of seeing pigs fly than ever seeing Conor McGregor fight me. I told you that he would never show that sparring session in full because it didn&#8217;t go the way he tried to make that look with the little highlight reel. I was right about that and I will be right about this too \u2014 he will never fight me,\u201d McGregor said<\/p>\n<p>McGregor&#8217;s own situation adds context to the exchange. He has not fought since 2021. His return to the UFC is being discussed but is not confirmed. Whether a fight with Malignaggi is even on the radar amid those circumstances is unclear. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6f49aa629150c1057df7513ccab2519f6935d277-1372x680.png\" alt=\"Statistics \" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paulie Malignaggi has written off any prospect of a fight with Conor McGregor, insisting the unreleased footage from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-668582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}