Maidana hasn’t decided who he’ll fight next

By Boxing News - 01/12/2014 - Comments

maidana54343By Dan Ambrose: Adrien Broner (27-1, 22 KO’s) may have exercised his rematch clause for a rematch against WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-3, 31 KO’s) for nothing, because Maidana says he’s still not decided who he’ll be facing next. Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer jumped the gun by saying that Broner and Maidana would be facing each other in a rematch in April. I guess he should have checked in with Maidana first before talking about the rematch because Maidana has other ideas.

Maidana doesn’t want to agree to a rematch with Broner before he’s explored his other options, such as a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. That’s probably not a fight that will happen, but Maidana is smart to keep his options open until he hears about who Mayweather will be fighting next. It can’t be too much longer before Mayweather announces his next fight.

It’s interesting how Schaefer is already talking about the Broner-Maidana II rematch as if it’s a done deal. Maidana doesn’t have to fight Broner. He can always vacate if they try to shove the fight down his throat without him being able to look at bigger options.

If Maidana can’t get a fight against Mayweather, then he should look to set something up with junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. That would be a good fight. Maidana would obviously be out-sized by the 170+ lb. Canelo, but at least he’d have the option of getting a better payday because the fight would be pay-per-view rather than just regular Showtime for a Broner rematch.

Broner is crazy if he thinks he has any chance of beating Maidana in a rematch. Broner’s going to end up looking silly in front of the entire world again, and take a beating. Hopefully after this loss, Broner won’t dash out of the ring like he did last time. Broner needs to stay and give a post-fight interview like most fighters do instead of taking off because things didn’t go his way in the fight.



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