Golden Boy Signs a Gift for Victor Ortiz…Here’s Paulie!

[pistol whip]

Young boxers with talent suffer a bad defeat and god forbid they bring him back up slowley.


WHAT THE *** IS WRONG WITH THIS? IS THIS YOUR FIRST DAY AS A BOXING FAN OR ARE YOU JUST ******ED?

[-Antonio-]

Malignaggi might do OK against the right fighter. Someone like Diaz fits his style well. Ortiz does not. Ortiz's major weakness, like Khan, is his durability. Malignaggi couldn't hurt a fly.

Despite being outmanned by Khan, he looked better than he did against Hatton. I thought his career was over after that one.

[starkiller]

Paulie sucks.

[DrewWoodside]

I still don't see Paulie as being that bad... surely beating Diaz twice is decent enough? And surely losing to the likes of Hatton and Khan isn't that bad? Khan is, after all, a very talented boxer with only one serious weakness... a weakness that Paulie, of all people, wasn't able to exploit.

Paulie isn't that bad and if there's anyone decent he has a chance at upsetting it's Victor Ortiz. A guy with a punch but who isn't fleet footed and needs to set himself to throw. If this happens, then once again the matchmakers have managed to get Paulie the only type of opponent he can actually beat.

[Paul_Magno]

IMO, any fan or writer who calls a pro fighter a chicken or coward immediately loses all credibility...

Having said that, though, I think it's fair game to say that maybe a fighter with world class skills could possibly not have the mental resolve to go to war if need be.

I think that appears to be the case with Ortiz and, as the article states, Golden Boy seems to also doubt Ortiz's mental toughness. What else explains GBP buying up Ortiz's opponents prior to signing fights?

Golden Boy bought Nate Campbell, Vivian Harris and now, possibly, Paulie as cannon fodder for Ortiz. IMO, none of these guys had/have a prayer of beating Ortiz, but Golden Boy seems reluctant to match him up without first covering their asses against another Ortiz mental breakdown...

[FloydTBE]

easy figth for ortiz

[Iceta Lives]

I knew GBP were gonna pull some shit like this. I hope HBO makes GBP and Oscar take Paulie's lame ass somewhere else besides HBO. If they put a fight like Ortiz-Malinaggi on, it should be a BAD undercard at best!!

[NesNY]

easy figth for ortiz

way too easy.

[Scott9945]

Lets be honest, GBP thinks Paulie is next years Vivian Harris.