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Paulie Malignaggi Blasts NHS for Career-Threatening Injuries Suffered in Last BKB Fight

KO On SI·Jaren Kawada·26 days ago
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Despite beating Tyler Goodjohn at BKB 47 to collect the first bare-knuckle win of his career, Paulie Malignaggi describes Oct. 18, 2025, as one of the most frustrating nights of his life. Malignaggi accomplished everything he set out to accomplish in the ring to improve to 1-1 in his bare-knuckle career, but he aired his irritation with how he was treated after the fight. The 45-year-old revealed he suffered a few lasting injuries from the bout, which he blames on the "absolute animals" working at the NHS in the United Kingdom, where the fight occurred. "The cuts [I suffered] would have been just a regular stitch job in a regular hospital in the United States," Malignaggi said on The Ariel Helwani Show . "But they have people in the UK that work in the NHS that in America, probably wouldn't even be allowed to work on farm animals. They let them work on human beings in these hospitals. I was in that hospital all night. "My wounds were not cleaned.…

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