A SLICE OF BOXING
Paulie Malignaggi showed serious heart against Miguel Cotto.
EXCELLENCE IN CARE STARTS HERE
In 2006, Malignaggi fought a heroic battle against Miguel Cotto in a WBO 140-pound championship fight at Madison Square Garden. Malignaggi’s right eye socket was broken in the second round. His jaw was horribly swollen. He went the distance – winning four rounds on two of the judges’ scorecards and five on the third – but lost. “I had to wait a week for the swelling to go down before they performed the surgery,” Malignaggi recalled. “For a long time, I couldn’t do things I wanted to do. Not just in boxing, but in the rest of my life too. Italy won the World Cup that year. I spent a lot of time that summer
THE DAY AFTER A FIGHT By Thomas Hauser
watching soccer on television.” Sergio Mora moved into the spotlight when he emerged triumphant on season one of The Contender. Later, he claimed the WBC 154-pound title. “We all hurt the day after a fight,” Mora says. “But if you win, no matter how sore you are, it’s worth it.” But it’s not that simple. In 2014, Seanie Monaghan won a 10-round decision over Elvir Muriqi at Barclays Center. “He headbutted me,” Monaghan later recounted. “It felt like someone slammed a bowling ball into my face. My orbital bone was broken in two places. It broke my nose and severed a tendon. I needed internal and external stitches, and they had to reattach the tendon I use to lift
B oxing fans watch a fight on television, go to sleep when it’s over, and their lives are unchanged the following day. No two fighters process things precisely the same way. But for all fighters, the day after a fight is dominated physically and psychologically by the night before. “One of the things I hated most was
losing a fight and having to get on a plane the next day and everyone is staring at you,” Paulie Malignaggi told me long ago. “If you win, you can say. ‘Yeah, I won.’ The bruising and swelling is like a badge of honor. If you lost, you’re self-conscious about it, especially if people don’t know you’re a fighter and look at you like, ‘That punk got beaten up.’”
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