By Yannis Mihanos: In recent interviews by Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0,26 KO), he’s talked about wanting to get a good referee that would be vigilant to all of Marcos Maidana’s (35-4, 31 KOs) attempts at making it a dirty fight in their rematch on September 13th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
It seems to me that all the pulling and pushing into the ropes that Maidana did in the previous fight with Mayweather didn’t go well with the #1 pound-for-pound star. Mayweather ended up with a cut from a head-butt.
So now Floyd expects from the new referee to keep Maidana under control to keep him from using his dirty tricks. If Maidana does choose to foul, Mayweather wants points to be deducted from him this time. The referee that worked their previous fight, Tony Weeks, chose not to take points away from Maidana for his rough style of fighting.
It seems also to me that Floyd forgets his own little tricks that he employs from outside of the ring. He easily forgets how he threatened Maidana that he would pull out from the fight unless he (Maidana) would change the gloves to more suitable ones instead of the Everlast MX puncher’s gloves, which Mayweather felt were unsuitable due to the lack of padding around the knuckles of the gloves.
The last second issue over the gloves caused Maidana’s team run in havoc the day just before the fight, something that was a severe distraction from all the preparation.
It’s not the first time that Floyd has used scare tactics prior to a fight. We all know that he is the one who calls the shots in each fight he selects to participate.
Floyd is not a saint either. We all know that in boxing there are some good and legitimate fighters. Fighters who fight clean and also behave as role models prior and after the fight.
There also the type of fighters who would try everything to win and that means using dirty tricks and methods.
Maidana is certainly included in that second list, but Floyd is included too, not so much for his presence inside of the ring but out of the ring.
Floyd is influencing his opponents mostly from out of the ring and is present to any kind of extreme demand or negotiation. He makes sure that every of his opponent gets the message and feels a certain way.
He makes sure that each opponent feels like a smaller fish. Well what happens if that smaller fish bites a little bit? It just happens.
Boxing is a game of gentlemen but is of men too. It is not just black or white. We have to understand that and Floyd needs to understand it too.
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