The Maidana rematch will Be easy pickings for Floyd

By Boxing News - 09/11/2014 - Comments

Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Chester Rivers: In preparation for Saturday night rematch between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Marcos Maidana, I watched the original fight with my mute button turned on. I turned on my mute so I could concentrate on the action instead of being influenced by the commentary. After watching the replay, I have come to the conclusion that Saturday night will be easy pickings for Floyd.

Like many of you I originally thought that Maidana gave Floyd one of his toughest fights ever. I have to admit that I was somewhat swayed by the enthusiasm of the commentators admiration of Maidana’s efforts but with the mute button on that is no longer the case.

Many of the awkward over hand rights that Maidana was throwing were actually fouls. If you closely watch the replay you will notice that in the first few rounds they were not overhand rights but actually forearms and elbows to the top of Floyd’s head. The awkward looking right was always thrown when the ref was on Maidana’s left side and Floyd pinned against the ropes. Whenever the ref was on Maidana’s right side in full view of the possible foul the punch would be thrown straight.

Floyd was never in any trouble or hurt from Maidana’s punches. Although Maidana threw more and was the harder puncher he never hurt Floyd. Many of the wild punches missed the mostly stationary Mayweather. Mayweather mostly used upper body movement to avoid the slower Maidana. Floyd would counter and pivot out of the corners or off the ropes and pot shot Maidana whenever the opportunity presented itself.

Towards the second half of the fight , Maidana was visibly tired. At that point Floyd took over by often snapping back the head of Maidana with sharp hard jabs. Mayweather also was more mobile in the later rounds and that seem to befuddle Maidana. This time, I believe that Mayweather will come out with movement, sharp counters and accurate punches to easily defeat his Argentine challenger.

After watching the replay I have come to the conclusion that the first match was less about what we saw and more about what we were told we saw. The job of the commentators is to guide the audience and provide expert points of view but sometimes they influence audiences into believing their own personal biases.



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