By Chris Williams: Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) says he’s going to be looking to be putting on twice as much pressure on WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) as he did in their first fight last May.
Maidana thinks that the magic to him getting a victory over Mayweather is to put unrelenting pressure for 12 rounds with a lot of punches being thrown.
Maidana put a lot of pressure on Mayweather last time, but it didn’t out well for Maidana after he got tired in the first half of the fight. Assuming that Maidana has sparred hard in training camp with his sparring partners, he’s got to have a pretty good idea of whether he can fight hard to give Mayweather more problems this time. If he can’t do any better than he did last time then he’s going to lose the fight just like last time.
“If he [Mayweather] decides to box, I will go chase him around the ring,” Maidana said to laaficion.milenio. “I have to press it twice as I did in the first fight.”
I didn’t believe that Maidana will be able to put any additional pressure on Mayweather than he did last time he fought him. Maidana looked like he topped out at the uppermost level of his game in that fight and asking for from his body isn’t realistic.
If Maidana has improved his stamina from the last fight, I see it as maybe 1-2% improvement. That’s not going to be enough for him to beat a talented fighter like Mayweather. Maidana is going to need at high percentage of improvement, say 60% for him to beat Mayweather, and that’s only if Mayweather fights the same way he did last time by standing in front of him. Mayweather already said he’s not going to fight that way in the rematch.
Mayweather plans on staying on the move and boxing Maidana from the center of the ring, so any improvement that Maidana makes from the last fight could be totally useless. Without having the ability to land his shots against a stationary target, Maidana is going to be like a race car stuck in standstill traffic on I-5 in Los Angeles. He’s not going to be able to land his shots if Mayweather doesn’t fight his fight.
“I know I can add more pressure to the fight,” Maidana said.
Maidana is probably going to end up getting sloppy on September 13th and run into something while he’s chasing Mayweather all around the ring. Maidana thinks he can fight all out without worrying about his defense, but he’s going to end up like Ricky Hatton if he tries to add more pressure against Mayweather. You can’t do that against him because he’s going to counter Maidana until he’s punch drunk.
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