Cayo-Maidana: A win for Victor could make things easier for Khan
February 26th, 2010
By William Mackay: Next month, number #2 ranked WBA lightweight contender Victor Cayo (24-0, 16 KO’s) will be fighting World Boxing Association light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (27-1, 26 KO’s) in a 12 round bout at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada. At stake is the 26-year-old Maidana’s spot at the WBA interim champion, but even more than that, the winner would stay in line to get an eventual shot against WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s).
That sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to want to have happen. However, the risk for Maidana is that if he gets beaten by Cayo or whoever he fights next in 2010, his chances for a fight against Khan would be effectively going down the drain along with it. Of all the fighters that you could think of to match Khan with in the light welterweight division, Maidana, due to his huge power and high pressure offense, would be one of the most dangerous for Khan.
It doesn’t matter that Khan has the much better hand speed, the flashier offensive skills and the great foot work and trainer Freddie Roach. Maidana just on his huge power along would always have the chance to take Khan out at a moment’s notice. It wouldn’t matter how great Khan would look in the fight. If Maidana catches up to him, Khan is going to have to be able to take the huge shots that Maidana lands if he wants to beat him.
Some boxing writers feel that Maidana would be too much for Khan, and that he would eventually get to the British fighter and take him out with a big shot. That’s possibly true. However, if Cayo, who is an excellent boxer with good hand speed, is able to out-box Maidana, then Khan’s problem of having to face Maidana is pretty much taken care. To be sure, it would only be the second loss of Maidana’s career and not the end of the road for him.
Maidana could always work his way back into a title shot by beating four or five opponents and possibly get a shot at a title in a year, maybe two. But it wouldn’t be soon that’s for sure, and the money that Maidana would be making during that time likely would be nothing compared to the money he would likely get in a fight against Khan.
The bottom line is if Maidana loses to Cayo next month on March 27th, he loses big time in getting a shot against Khan in the near future. Unlike Maidana, Khan isn’t taking on a real dangerous opponent in his next fight. Khan is facing the soft hitting Paulie Malignaggi on May 15th, who has lost two out of his last four fights. Certainly, Malignaggi has a chance to beat Khan, but it’s doubtful. Khan is the bigger puncher, with better hand speed and is the younger fighter compared to Malignaggi. This should be a fairly safe fight for Khan.
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Pienso que todos tenemos derecho a pensar lo que queramos pero Coyo sera un hueso muy duro de roer para el sr. maidana mientra mas confie mas duro sera caer. Coyo es una bestia nunca ha caido…
i just want to point out the majority of people on here are not anti khan because of his skin colour or ethnicity, it is because he is the most protected boxer in the world and are sick of it
nobody can argue that khan beat the worst world champion at light welterweight. infact im pretty sure kotelnik would lose to any other world champion between lightweight to welterweight.
i personally want to see khan well an truely tested. also i really hope Degale an the rest of team chunky are tested and not protected as much as khan
Amir you’re a chicken… and those who said that Maidana was beaten by Kotelnik obviously didn’t see the match and also do not know how the referees use to score in Germany.
Anyway, Mermelada Cayo is much more boxer than Chicken Khan, so the show is guaranteed.
@dani reborn
I noticed that just now how could the writer miss the first round knockout loss to bredis prescott
@mansterrr
who has maidana proven himself against? ortiz? he’s not the finished article yet either yet dropped maidana 3 times. maidana’s only title fight was against kotelnik who beat him!
maidana needs a big named fight in the same way that khan does. out of maidana khan and ortiz, the only one showing the real balls is the one with the “questionable commitment and heart” ortiz who is fighting nate campbell next and moving in the right direction. khan is making tentative progress while maidana continues to fight inexperienced punchers who frankly he is learning nothing from.
Khan is the most protected fighter in world boxing and all the evidence is there. He should keep his mouth shut until hes ready to fight the best and his fans should stop hyping him until hes done something to shout about
@the myth
its not a disrespect to khan as such. its just that the light welter division has such strength in depth, that any of the fighters could be beaten by khan or beat khan. the same goes against eachother. nobody thought kotelnik would beat maidana. not many people thought khan would beat kotelnik.
the entire top 20 could at the moment, or at least within a couple of years, beat every one else in the top 20. yes there are stand out favourites, but kotelnik proved that they can be beaten. just look for yourself heres boxrec’s top 22 ranked light-welterweights.
bradley(25/0), hatton(45/2), campbell(33/5/1), khan(22/1), maidana(27/1), alexander(19/0), malignaggi(27/3), mabuza(23/6/3), urango(22/2/1), casamayor(37/4/1), alvarado(26/0), mccloskey(20/0), kotelnik(31/3/1), olusegan(27/0), witter(37/3/1), ortiz(26/2/1), onodera(20/1/1), ion(25/0), matthysse(26/0), cayo(24/0), holt(25/4), peterson(27/1).
tell me in 10 years time, how many of those will still have 0 losses? i say none of them. everyone in there has the ability to beat every other one of those fighters. and the couple you may think cant, give them a couple years development as that is all it would take.
The whole of boxing 24 seem to have a problem with khan?? Well it dont matter they dont know what they r talking about like all you other guys who think amir is not guna whoop Maidana, Malignaggi or any other in the weight class. The only one i see the who will cause problems is bradley but i still see power, speed and footwork will be to much for him!!
Maidana had his shot at Kotelnik and LOST. Khan had his shot at Kotelnik and WON with relative ease. Khan deserves to fight who he wants and when he wants. If Maidana loses another fight he is one step further away from the champ. It’s nothing to do with Khan dodging anyone, it’s politics. Khan v Malignaggi means TV, money and a well known name. So what Maidana has to do is keep winning and he will get his shot.
Khan will cause him serious problems though.
maidana would knock khan out cold. which explains why they payed maidana to take a hike. still khans fans still think the sun shines out of his ***** so alls good.
I completely agree with Dude, this writer is rubbish and just writes rubbish.
look don’t people get tired of insulting Khan continuously, let the guy fight without criticism, his 23, his got plenty of years to fight the best, his still developing as a fighter, I think Malignaggi offers a great test for khan, Khans going to learn how to fight decent speed and a decent defence and a load of heart and determination. Remember Malignaggi’s skilled against opponents like Cotto, Diaz and Hatton. He’ll bring the fight to khan, Khan will show what kind of stuff his truly made of.
Khans showed his interest in fighting Bradley! This just shows critics he ain’t ducking the best in the division. After Malignaggi, he’ll have too fight Maidana, because the WBA tell him too, And then its going to have to Bradley or Alexander, or Maybe a Move up to Welterweight.
i till cannot believe khan ducked this fight. this should be the moment he changes the world’s opinion of him. and now if maidana loses and then khan fights him, people will say maidana was shot after losing.
there is no situation where ducking a legitimate opponent will benefit your interests.
@mark, yes i can kotelnik was a top ten
maidana is no-one. if i were khan i’d be more scared of ortiz.
change the record man, you have milked every possible way of (trying) to insult Khan…
sounds like khan is doing all he can to fight lesser opponents and duck the big hitters, saying that Marcos Maidana is not a big name isnt true, i heard about him along time before i heard about Cayo.
no doubt khan is scared, Victor Ortiz is similar to khan in the fact he is quick, technically gifted and has good footwork however he still got KO’d by Maidana.
Also making Maidana fight the no.2 is a gud match … can anyone remember last time khan fought anyone with an actual ranking lol
DANI khan got knocked out by going straight in, not having his guard up and never having seen footage of prescott before, if anyone got hit the way khan did in that fight, early and cold they would have got kncoked out, so a think you need to give your head a wobble lad.
whoever wins will be a good warm up for khan before he fights timothy bradley. By the way you forgot to mention the KO by prescott in 1 round? WTF Mackay!! your getting slack, i think you need to buck up your ideas. We’ll consider this a one off, just dont let it happend again.
YAH RIGHT
Sounds like khan is scared!
cumon mate , maidana is a nobody i dunno abt cayo but if hes fast and can box then maidana is gonna be outboxed easily
Maidana will knock out Cayo in 4!
Then comes Khan.
Khan your days at the top pf the division are numbered!