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Paulie Malignaggi on ‘Little Engine That Could’ Conor McGregor: ‘Now we’ve gotta fight’

There are two things that happen when a pair of fighters have bad blood, Paulie Malignaggi said on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani on Monday.

Either, they fight each other — try to hurt each other with smaller gloves — or they just ignore each other, never mention the other’s name and don’t give them any media attention.

Malignaggi doesn’t know what Conor McGregor’s angle is after his messy split from McGregor’s camp two weeks ago.

“This weirdo didn’t do either of these things,” Malignaggi said. “He constantly puts me in the press with these edited videos, edited pictures and whatnot.