Paulie Malignaggi just recently caught up with Fight Hub TV to talk about this past weekend’s super welterweight title fight between Sebastian Fundora vs Keith Thurman and breaks down his thoughts on what occurred, and also breaks down his thoughts on a prospective showdown between Errol Spence and Tim Tszyu. Check out some of what he had to say below.
Malignaggi on the Fundora vs Thurman outcome
“I never felt like Thurman’s style was going to be a problem for Fundora with the exception of one big punch because he’s an in-and-out fighter and an in-and-out fighter against a guy who’s 6’5”, 6’6” is going to have a problem. You’re going to have to work your way in through head movement and that kind of style in order to give a problem to a guy like for Fundora. Being in-and-out, it’s too much distance to travel because the guy’s 6’6” and Thurman was always a bouncy guy, he leaps in explosively, jumps out, jumps in.
“At 37 he’s going to be less explosive and he’s never shown he’s the head movement type. So when I saw the fight I wasn’t shocked.”
On Spence vs Tszyu
“It’s an interesting matchup ‘cause both guys have been high level fighters but also both guys are looked at as guys who got to clean themselves up a little bit and maybe rebuild a little bit. I think Tim’s doing that. I think Errol not doing that, he’s never been a guy who’s really kept a good schedule and I think that hurt him in the end so I think Tim is doing smarter [by having had tune ups].”
