If you needed proof that Paulie Malignaggi and Conor McGregor's professional relationship was over, then this incredible rant on Monday night during Ariel Helwani's MMA Hour will give you a detailed insight into what has been going on behind closed doors.
As McGregor prepares to face Floyd Mayweather on August 26, the controversy surrounding former boxer Malignaggi has somewhat overshadowed the actual bout in Vegas later this month.
After quitting Conor McGregor's training camp this week, the former two weight boxing champion has ripped into McGregor on a number of occasions.
Most recently, the 36-year-old appeared on Ariel Helwani's MMA Hour in an astonishing hour long rant, calling his former sparring partner a 'd**khead, while explaining in detail the personality behind the UFC phenomenon.
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Earlier this week, pictures surfaced online of McGregor apparently putting Malignaggi on the canvas, along with a couple of shots of the 36-year-old taking some stiff looking shots from the two-weight UFC Champion.
Malignaggi dismissed the shot of him on the mat as a 'pushdown' rather than a knockout shot from Notorious, and his latest quotes on MMA Hour will be tough to take for McGregor fans:
Watch Malignaggi's incredible rant here:
As you can see in the above clip, the 36-year-old speaks about sparring in detail.
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Malignaggi describes how he thought the pair had settled their differences after a session:
"After that sparring, I thought we had buried the hatchet," he said. "We took a picture in the ring. Everybody gave us a hand. We just did 12 hard rounds, it didn't matter who got the better of it, there is a respect thing after you spend 36 minutes in a ring with a guy and you're trying to beat the s**t out of each other.
"In the dressing room I passed by Conor and he said 'good work' and I said 'yeah, good work Conor.' I thought we had buried the hatchet and I was thinking that maybe I didn't need to be so on-edge in the camp anymore. I was hoping that because I had came with those intentions."
Malignaggi then goes onto speak about the pictures McGregor uploaded to social media, and the moment he "realised what a dickhead this guy (McGregor) is":
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"Then I said, 'Conor, do me a favor, bro. No more of these crazy pictures,'" Malignaggi said. "The week before, when I was working at Broner/Garcia, the media was there for the fight week because that was a big fight in boxing. All everybody wanted to know about was these pictures.
"I told Conor that it becomes very hard for me to not disclose the NDA that I have when you're putting up pictures of me.
"I am not one of the other sparring partners. Nobody knows who the other sparring partners are. Everyone knows who I am. When you put up a picture of me in sparring, the media rush comes to me and I have to answer questions that I don't want to deal with.
"I have to try and make you look good. I want you to look good. I want to say things that make you look good. I want to promote you and help you out, but not at my expense.
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"I also have to try and figure how to do it without making myself look bad now because you're putting out me in compromising positions with these pictures.
"I had this conversation with Conor after the second sparring in the dressing room and this is probably when I realised what a dickhead this guy is because at that moment we had just done 12 hard rounds and there's a respect that I'm feeling, at least."
The Irishman faces Floyd Mayweather at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on 26th August.
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(H/T: Ariel Helwani's MMA Hour)
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