Mayweather says he’ll be back in September, possibly against Maidana

By Boxing News - 05/05/2014 - Comments

floyd2By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) is contemplating giving Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) another fight after the two of them went toe-to-toe for 12 action-packed rounds last Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Maidana fought well enough to where a handful of fight fans felt that he deserved the win. But even the ones that felt that Mayweather edged it, were pleased enough with the fight to want to see the two go at it a second time.

No one has fought Mayweather this competitive since his first fight against Jose Luis Castillo many years ago, and it was refreshing for fans to see Mayweather having to push himself to a victory instead of him just going out and effortlessly beating his opponents.

“I’ll be back in September, maybe against the same guy again; I don’t know,” Mayweather said to ESPN. “This guy came to fight. I could have just stood on the outside and out-boxed this guy and counter-punched, but I told the fans I was going to give them something exciting tonight because everyone wanted to see a competitive fight.”

The only other options for Mayweather in September are fights against guys like Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman, Danny Garcia, Lucas Matthysse, Lamont Peterson, Miguel Cotto, Sergio Martinez and the winner of the Erislandy Lara vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Most of those opponents wouldn’t bring much to the table against Mayweather, as they don’t have a fan base for the most part. Cotto, Martinez and Canelo have a lot of fans, but Mayweather already soundly beat Cotto and Canelo. That doesn’t mean he still can’t fight one of them, but it’s still a little too soon for Mayweather to be fighting either of them. Canelo will be helping himself in a big way if he can beat Lara in a convincing fashion. Amir Khan has already been ruled out for a fight against Mayweather after Khan said that there’s no way that he can fight in September due to Ramadan.

Maidana will bring in a lot of fans for the fight in the rematch, and it should be another successful pay-per-view event for Mayweather. He can’t go wrong in choosing Maidana again after the fight they put on last Saturday night.



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