Maidana’s manager to meet with Mayweather’s adviser to talk today about fight

By Boxing News - 02/17/2014 - Comments

maidana32434By Allan Fox: WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana’s manager Sebastian Contursi will be meeting with Floyd Mayweather Jr’s adviser Al Haymon today to discuss a possible May 3rd fight between Maidana and Mayweather, according to RingTV. Contursi expects Mayweather to make a decision about who his next opponent will be in the next few days. Mayweather will need to make a decision soon so that Showtime/CBS and Golden Boy Promotions can start marketing his fight. The longer he waits the less time they’ll have to try and sell the fight.

With Mayweather fighting Khan or Maidana next, it’s going to take more effort to get fans interested in the fight than it was for his previous bout against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. That fight was always going to be an easy fight to sell due to Canelo’s popularity with his huge Mexican fan base. But Mayweather and Golden Boy put out some effort to make it an even bigger fight by going on a 11-city tour, and that obviously helped. If Canelo was a little better at self-promotion, he could have talked the fight into being bigger than it was. But Canelo played it low key and rarely said much to get fans excited about the fight.

“We are scheduled to talk to Al Haymon this afternoon, in a few hours, and then, we’ll see how things are going,” Contursi said to RingTV. “We’ll have to talk. I think that they have to make a decision either today or tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. They have to make the decision.”

Khan has been speaking a lot on his twitter account, and trying to encourage his followers to push for the fight. He says he won’t be happy if Mayweather fights Maidana instead, because he said he was going to face the winner of the poll on his website. Khan won the poll by a landslide vote, and so he feels that Mayweather should keep his word and face him next.

The only reason why Mayweather would change his mind about agreeing to face the winner of his poll would be if he had some misgivings about the interest from fans in watching him fight the winner. He’s an important contract with Showtime/CBS and he can’t afford to have his fights do poorly on PPV. That’s why Mayweather probably should have never said anything about letting the fans pick the winner in a poll. Those fans only represent a small portion of the millions of boxing fans in the United States. The poll had people voting from all around the world. Mayweather’s PPV buys will be coming from U.S fans.



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