Paulie Malignaggi has quit Conor McGregor’s camp ahead of his huge fight against Floyd Mayweather in Las Vegas at the end of the month.
Malignaggi, who is a former two-weight world champion and boxing analyst on Showtime, had previously been involved in training and sparring sessions with the Dublin man.
Speaking about his decision to step away, Paulie said, “I just wanted to clear the air. I am leaving the McGregor training camp today. I came with best intentions and intended to help out. Just the chance to be part of such a big event in this capacity excited me.
“I believe Conor and I have a mutual respect inside the ring, earned from each other with some good work over 2two sparring sessions. It’s some of the stuff outside the ring and some ways some things were handled in training camp that I didn’t agree with that made me come to this decision.
“It’s not my place to dictate terms in a training camp that is not mine, but it’s my place to decide if I want to be a part of it. I will not give away anything tactical that I saw in two sparring sessions with Conor. For what it’s worth, they have my word.
“The things that upset me though I will speak about in time. I wish team McGregor well in the rest of their preparations and look forward to being back in Vegas to work fight week on Showtime.”
The former world champion later took to twitter to further air his grievances, stating that he “came to help this camp out, not to be exploited.”
He continued “Only his personal photographers allowed in the gym. Don’t just invent you’re own reality of things because it’s how you wish it to be buddy. I actually beat his ass, 24 hrs off a flight topo lol, which is why Im saying post the vid, I try not to be petty but seems it’s late for that now.”
We wonder what Conor thinks of this latest controversy?
