By Williams Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (31-2, 28 KO’s) was bitterly disappointed by the offer that Top Rank recently waived in front of his nose to get him to fight their new guy WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s). Instead of offering Maidana $1 million or close to that number, since it would be a unification match, Maidana says Top Rank offered him only a pitiful $150,000 to fight Bradley.

Maidana said this on his twitter “Top Rank offered $150 K for that fight. So if Bradley thinks I can face him for those peanuts, he’ll keep dreaming.”

It could be that there never was any serious intention of Bradley facing Maidana. That kind of offer is given to complete unknown fighters, not guys like Maidana, who arguably is a much more popular fighter than Bradley in the United States at this point in time. You can make a case where that number should be flipped around with Bradley getting the $150,000, not Maidana, as Bradley’s fights have lacked excitement time and time again.

I honestly can’t remember the last fight Bradley had that was even remotely interesting to watch. I guess you can go back to his fight with Kendall Holt two years ago in 2009 in a fight where Bradley hit the deck twice. That was probably the last interesting fight Bradley was involved in, but Holt had a lot to do with making that fight an exciting one. In contrast, Maidana’s bouts against Erik Morales, Amir Khan, Victor Cayo and Victor Ortiz have all be very exciting fights filled with a ton of action. The only fights Maidana has been involved with recently that wasn’t interesting to watch was his bouts against DeMarcus Corley and Petr Petrov.

Maidana wants to fight WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan. However, Khan has zero interest in getting back in the ring with Maidana again after absorbing a terrible beating from him last December. Khan doesn’t want to experience that again and has been taking the light road since that fight.

Maidana may have to settle for a fight against former IBF light welterweight champion Paulie Malignaggi, who is now fighting as a welterweight. It would be a mismatch, of course, as Malignaggi hasn’t done much since being stopped by Amir Khan in May 2010 other than beating second tier guys.