Is Maidana the real WBA champion rather than Khan?
April 16th, 2010
By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) is technically the World Boxing Association champion while knockout artist Marcos Maidana (28-1, 27 KO’s) is the WBA interim light welterweight champion.
However, in this case I think the better fighter is the interim champion Maidana rather than Khan, a fighter with a weak chin whose management team aren’t in any hurry to put him in with the hard hitting Maidana. It’s not hard to see why. Maidana seems to be a much more rugged fighter with more power and a much sturdier chin than Khan.
They can take some of them but after four to six rounds, Maidana wears out his opposition and ends up taking them out. Khan may be the full WBA champion as of now, but I don’t see him as the real champion in that division and I think I’m not the only one. Maidana is probably too big of a puncher and too rugged for Khan to stand up to him for more than three or four rounds at best. Maidana looked devastating in taking out Victor Cayo and Victor Ortiz, two excellent fighters. Both of those guys tried to stand up to Maidana and fight him but it was useless.
Maidana broke them down with huge shots to the head and body to take them out. Ortiz landed some monstrous shots to the chin of Maidana and knocked him down three times in the fight. I think Khan would have been buried if he was hit with the shots that Ortiz landed against Maidana. Ortiz is a real good puncher. I don’t know if he gets a lot of credit for it, but he landed some shots on Maidana that would have stopped most fighters in the division.
Maidana got up off the deck and wore Ortiz down with massive right hands and left hooks. Ortiz, Cayo and Maidana are the kinds of fighters that Khan is going to have to be able to tangle with if he wants to be considered the best fighter in the WBA. I’m not even talking about light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley and Devon Alexander.
Those guys would be a huge test for Khan to deal with, but I’d like to see how Khan would do against Cayo, Maidana and Ortiz before he’s thrown in with skilled fighters like Bradley and Alexander. I think Khan would lose to all of them by knockout. Khan could surprise me if his chin has improved like some people think it has, but until he starts actually fighting the tougher fighters in the light welterweight division, I can’t tell. All I know is that Khan has had major problems when he was put in with a big puncher Breidis Prescott in 2008, and since that time he’s been put in soft with weaker hitters.
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wait a min .. wasnt khan told he HAS to fight Maidana or vacate the WBA belt ?
also if khan beats pauli maliggnali (which he will) it could reset up the Khan Vs Maidana fight … maybe all this ducking an fighting other opponents is a publicity stunt to make evry1 talk about the fight
also if Maidana hasnt pulled out fighting Braderz .. he just postponed it .. i also dont think braderz can stand toe to toe with maidana an it will be a great fight to watch =D
i have a sad life
khan and haye are the only good british boxers. all the rest fight bums and have small willies. khan and haye have massive willies so i like them. one day i dream i will have my way with amir and haye
its nice to lick khans b*lls
your opinion of who the better fighter is does not matter, khan is WBA champion and since he is active there is no need for an interim champion. Pointless!
@ Oli ….and all the other names you post under lol
“Theres only one OLI and thats me. Iv neva seen your name on here before tho”
thas cos not everyone else is as sad as you! Instead of spending ur time doing sumthing constructive, all u do is spend 24 hours a days posting comments about Amir Khan on this site. lol such a sado…..i shud imagine u must not have many friends!
William Mackays next article …
Is Floyd Mayweather really Undefeated? lol
khans the next big thing in boxing
@ oli
Are you completely stupid ????
Khan beat the man maidana failed to beat idiot !!!!!!
Khan also put ortiz away who dropped maidana in there fight .
Just get over the fact khan doesnt fight for peanuts like bradley
If you are the mandatory and the Champ wont fight you because he knows you’l smash his chin to pieces, thats when you know the champ is a coward and shouldnt really be the champ.
Maidana is the real WBA champ, because Khan would do anything NOT to face him.
Eazy Na- Are u stupid? Theres only one OLI and thats me. Iv neva seen your name on here before tho, do you often post under different names…like anonymous, or Ann??
@ 123456789…10..11…12..13 or which other name you post under….
“no we are not the same guy and im not a man either if you dont mind”
OMG , if that is not the most blatent give away, i don’t know wot is…
Yes you are the same person, and u are a guy, stop pretending to be a women now, coz we all know women don’t waste their time talking about sports which dont really concern them!!!!!!!!!
you’ve just landed yourself in it, now wveryone reading this will truly know how sad u really are!
Lets just clear it up. The champ is the one with the belt. Hope that has simplied matters for those who were struggling to understand….
Amir won the belt of kotelnic who maidana failed to beat. Having said that amir doesnt want maidana any time soon.
Reasons maybe the ko power of marcos
Maybe money reasons ??
Personally i think amir made the right choice avoiding him on his us debut he looked troubled by kotelnic on the back foot if kotelnic had more power then he would have stopped amir. Marcos has plenty of power.
Look for amir to fight maidana after bradley dismantles him.
Get the fight on asp ,and we will then know who should be champion.
Maidana AGREED. It doesn’t make him any more of a champ than Khan. He could’ve forced the fight
to be a REAL champ you dont pay your manditory off. and has anyone of you actually seen kotelnik v maidana, you havent even watched it because its common knowledge that maidana won that fight.
until khan has the guts to take on prescott rematch, maidana, ortiz, cayo, bradley, alexander, mitchell he is just an average fighter who beat kotelnik, big deal.
the man has proved very little so far except that he knows what fights to avoid.
To be the REAL champion, you have to beat the champion.
Khan beat the champion, Kotelnik, covincingly. Maidana failed. That’s why Khan is the REAL champion.
Maidana beating Ortiz doesn’t give him CHAMPION status. Ortiz was simply a prospect. That’s why Maidana is INTERIM champ. Good performances against random guys doesn’t give you the real belt. You have to do it against the champ.
Nuff said
no we are not the same guy and im not a man either if you dont mind. how deluded can you get thinking someone would go to that extent.
maidana ortiz cayo, they all beat khan. he doesnt have the chin to get through a fight with any of them. maidana is the true champ who was paid off by the khan camp and everyone knows it. he would have put khan in a coma so roach did the right thing to keep khan well away from him
sully is ped off his great white hope hatton got out into a coma by little pacman
@ jean
totally agree, anyone with abit of commonsense would see this, he doesn’t have to be a khan supporter. And don’t be fooled by all the negative posting on amir khan on this site, its the same guy who’s posting under different names …
so……Anonymous, fan, Sully, Joe, Oli, and the guy that only counts to 13, It’s just the same guy, everything he says is just repetitive, he just copy and paste’s with the same comments and uses different names just to make it look like there are alot of khan haterz out there!
this just confirms william mackay is dillusional!!! nuff sed ….
lol, im known as a somewhat khan hater but thats just plain stupid. khan deserves his belt, hes made mandatories in time. maybe in your eyes, your favourite boxer is the champion but khan deserves that belt. i understand why khan didn’t fight maidana so willingly, not because hes scared of him, but he needed to be introduced. even the maidana camp understood since they didnt retaliate when they found out khan was fighting malinaggi. give it a rest.
12rounds your wasting your time with these people, their opinion will be this.
khan beating somebody in the amateurs counts for nothing in the pro ranks its a different ball game.
which is fine, but then these same people like to point out that david haye is overrated and use soli beating him in the amateurs as their view point.
they quickly acknowledge all of khans bad points but then refuse to acknowledge his good ones.
What your forgetting is that Maidana lost to Kotelnik and Khan destroyed Kotelnik. Maidana is so overrated all he has is a big punch that’s it he can’t box for s h i t. He was getting schooled by Victor Cayo until he caught him with a big punch. A decent boxer mover like Khan would make easy pickings against Maidana. To say Maidana looked devastating against Ortiz and Cayo is crazy he was getting beat by both convincingly until he managed lucky punches. Also what you say about Khan needing to face Ortiz what your forgetting is he faced him 3 times as an amateur and KO’d him twice and beat him by a large margin on the other.
maidana fights with his balls on his sleve! khan fights with his balls tucked up his butt! i know who i like and would rather watch fight
maidana vs kotelnik was a close fight, alot of people think he won it. khan ducked maidana to fight malinaggi for more money and exposure but will get less respect from fans. maidana was khans mandatory so they should fight next unless khan ducks again!
Did Maidana beat Kotelnik? No, he lost.
Did Khan beat Kotelnik? Yes, he won with ease.
Conclusion – Khan is the real WBA Champion. Simple really.
last nite i looked, it was amir khan who defeated andreas kotelnik for the WBA light welterweaight title, NOT marcus maidana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I diasagree with this article. Aside from khans chin the only thing madaina has going for him is his power and conditioning. Talent wise amir khan has all the tools in the box. IF Amir khan and madaina would fight and Amir boxed alll night khan would win and possibly TKO late in rounds.
Maidana fought Kotelnik for the WBA world title and lost the fight.
Khan fought Kotelnik for the WBA world title and won the fight.
Khan is now the WBA world champion. He did what Maidana could not do.
Maidanas power could well take the belt away from Khan but at this moment he hasnt done so no he isnt the champ rather than Khan.
khan beat kotelnik,
maidana been droped afew times but ortiz didnt know how to finish him off, n khan is the best finisher in the 140 division by far, khan throws too many punches for maida to deal with, n khans chim has improved from going up a weight
I think Amir Khan should stick to smashing ENglish Fighters to pieces, Talentless trash like Ricky Hatton and Kevin Mitchell would be food for Khan, and he could avoid fighting real men like Maidana, and Ortiz.
I doubt Maidana has any fear of Kahn. A Maidana Kahn match-up is a lot more attractive than Bradley Kahn. Lets hope that happens.
you writers have no idea what your talking about, juust because khan has the weaker chin dosent mean he’s a worse boxer!
I didnt mean that khan comes forward that looks wrong. I do know khan is a boxer, I was stating that about maidana
LMAO @ kiko hes said that foo has man boobs HAHAHA. I don’t know whos ducking the other or not all i know is that maidana is gonna get clipped when he fights a true boxer. victor ortiz is good but he only wants easy fights I couldnt believe him in his interview after. I havent seen much of khan however I will not route for someone who is all power or all heart and has virtually no boxing skills and just comes forward. Oh ya i think charlies gotta point but I think its funny that comment comes up while every one finds justification for hating my boy money may. still he might have a point
Why would Khan waste time fighting Maidana? He got schooled by Kotelnik over 12 rounds whereas Khan made Kotelnik look like an amateur over 12 rounds. Go figure!
You can like Maidana all you want for having a big it but one hit wonders with no skill never get anywhere in the long run.
Khan’s gold speaks for itself. As does this ‘writers’ reputation. Ha!
If Maidana is willing to fight anyone why then did he agree with Golden boy his co-promotor not to fight Khan? Then agree to fight feather-fisted Tim Bradley? Then fake a back injury?
Also Maidana’s chin is questionable hes been put down a number of times.
A mere Con hand-picked Paulie Malignaggi to give himself an easy introduction the American audience. Compare that to Marcos Maidana who is willing to fight whoever the best is.
I agree with you as will the masses. Good article. Perhaps a few more of these and Con will have had enough dodging hype and step up to the plate. Maidana is as undefeated as Andre Dirrel. Thing is, I don’t even think Maidana cares about the record – he just wants to get in and bang with the best. I like his style.
A mere Con is just a paper champion. Marcos Maidana is the true champion.
@ Charlie
Amere Con is the one who signed with Golden Boy Promotions to have Golden Boy Promotions pay Marcos Maidana step aside money to protect himself from Marcos Maidana. A mere Con still remembers what happened to himself in his fight against Breidis Prescott. That’s why he does not want to fight Marcos Maidana.
You bet. Khan who?
Marcos Maidana is the true WBA light welterweight champion because he is actually willing to defend the championship against legitimate competition unlike A mere Con. A mere Con is a paper champion. A mere Con only fights feather fisted fighters and shot, small, aging, boxing legends who are too small for him with his cheating headbutt strategy. In retrospect, A mere Con is a fraud and a coward. A mere Con is a protected, over hyped, so called fighter.
William Mackay; Do you have some kind of Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) about Amir Khan? You seem to bash him all the time, Perhaps you just dont like the guys color of skin.
Maidana has been ducking Khan all along, First he agrees with Golden boy not to fight Khan, Then he goes to fight the feather fisted Timothy Bradley instead, Then he fakes a back injury and pulls out.
Get your facts right pal!