Mayweather putting in the hard work for May 3rd – The Moment

By Boxing News - 03/28/2014 - Comments

By Chris Williams: While WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-3, 31 KO’s) has been busy the last couple of weeks giving one interview after another to help make his May 3rd pay per view fight on Showtime bigger, WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) has been hard at work in getting ready to face Maidana and take his WBA title. Mayweather has been focusing entirely on his training in getting ready for the fight, and he hasn’t been nearly as busy as Maidana on the interview circuit.

Maidana is going to have a good excuse for losing to Mayweather on May 3rd, because he’ll be able to blame it on all the time he’s spent in giving interviews and meeting with important influential people now that he’s getting his 15 minutes of fame. The attention that Maidana got last December for his fight against Adrien Broner is nothing compared to the fame that he’s receiving with his May 3rd fight against Mayweather at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Maidana is obviously enjoying his time in the media spotlight, but he might want to back off a little bit and get back in the gym so that he doesn’t start making excuses on May 3rd after Mayweather beats him.

Mayweather wants to make sure that he can fight hard for the full 12 rounds of the fight, and not just for 8 rounds like his previous opponents Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Miguel Cotto. Those guys didn’t have the gas to fight hard for the full 12, and that made things easy for Floyd to school them just by having the better conditioning.

Maidana has serious stamina problems, as we saw in his recent win over Broner. Maidana looked like he had almost nothing left in the last four rounds of the fight. Had he been facing someone with a little more speed and power than Broner, Maidana would have likely been knocked out.

Maidana is going to need to come up with the perfect plan to have a chance of making the fight interesting. I’m not talking about Maidana winning. I’m talking about him just being competitive with Mayweather. Maidana will need to come up with a brilliant plan for the fight to be interesting to watch, because if all Maidana is going to bring on May 3rd is heavy pressure, then he’s going to come up empty in a big way for this fight.

Pressure doesn’t work against Mayweather. Maidana is welcome to try that old strategy, but he’s only going to find out quickly that it takes more than that to try and beat Mayweather.



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