By Dan Ambrose: WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-3, 31 KO’s) started training today with his trainer Robert Garcia for his May 3rd match-up against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) in a fight called “The Moment” at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Maidana is going to be working on developing his stamina so that he can throw as many shots as possible to try and overwhelm Mayweather Jr’s shoulder roll defense.
This was precisely what Maidana did in his last fight against Adrien Broner, and it worked well for Maidana with him getting a 12 round unanimous decision win. Maidana ran out of gas in the last four rounds of the fight, and this enabled Broner to come on a little and make it somewhat close.
May 3 is #TheMoment @ChinoMaidana & trainer Robert Garcia are waiting for! Training starts NOW for @FloydMayweather! pic.twitter.com/2BdDndMeQ9
— GoldenBoyPromotions (@GoldenBoyBoxing) March 17, 2014
Maidana can’t afford to tire out against Mayweather on May 3rd, because he’s going to be still fighting hard in the last four rounds of the fight. If the fight is anywhere close at all by the last quarter of the fight, then you can count on Mayweather to take those rounds unless Maidana has improved his stamina enough for him to throw 80-100 punches in the last part of the fight.
Maidana has never shown the ability to fight hard for a full 12 round fight before without tiring in the last part. His stamina problems has made a lot of fights that would have been easy ones for him into really tough bouts. We saw that with his fights against Erik Morales, Andriy Kotelnik, Amir Khan, DeMarcus Corley and Devon Alexander.
Robert Garcia is likely going to be working on improving Maidana’s boxing skills. That’s not going to work though. If Garcia makes the mistake of trying to turn Maidana into a boxer against Mayweather then he’s going to end up looking as bad as the red-haired Saul “Canelo” Alvarez did in his loss to Mayweather last September.
Canelo tried to box Mayweather instead of using his 20 lb weight advantage to try and knock him out, and it didn’t work out well at all for Canelo. He ended up looking silly and confused and wasting most of the fight by trying to beat Mayweather at his own game. The only thing Maidana can do against Mayweather is to plod forward, take his best shots, and try to come back with harder shots of his own. Maidana must throw over 100 punches per round to have a chance at beating Mayweather.
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