Garcia points to the additional 4 weeks of training that Maidana will have to train for the fight this time compared to the previous time Maidana fought Mayweather in May of this year.
Maidana had only 5 weeks to get ready for the fight, because Mayweather was having a tough time trying to decide between Maidana or Amir Khan for his May fight. Mayweather eventually decided it was better to go with Maidana because of his recent victories over Adrien Broner, Jesus Soto Karass and Josesito Lopez.
“We had about five weeks for the first fight, and even though Chino came in already semi in shape, it was still not the same,” Garcia said. “This time he came here nine weeks before the fight, since we started training full camp. We had a good eight weeks of training, so I think that it’s going to make a big difference. Five weeks compared to eight weeks of training makes a big difference for this type of fight, and I think with everything that he’s doing and learning new things, they’re going to see a different fight this time.”
The main difference we’re going to see from Maidana this time is going to be his stamina rather than his fighting style, because he’s already pretty much set in his ways in terms of his fighting style. But just fighting harder is going to make Maidana a lot tougher for Mayweather, because it was Maidana’s stamina which eventually failed him last May, causing him to lose the fight after he ran out of gas.
If Maidana is able to continue to fight hard for three minutes of every round in the second half of the fight, then Mayweather is going to have a lot of problems getting his shots off due to the constant incoming from Maidana.
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