Mayweather: Maidana was dirty and reckless last time; Canelo and Cotto are better fighters

By Boxing News - 07/17/2014 - Comments

Los Angeles - MayweatherMaidana-8980(Photo credit: Stephanie Trapp/SHOWTIME®) By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) really wailed on Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) in their final press tour meeting in Los Angeles, California, by continuing to call him a dirty fighter who has no hopes of winning, and just looking for a payday.

Mayweather says he wouldn’t bother fighting Maidana again if he were beaten by him. But Maidana is willing to take it for the payday because this is his best and only chance of getting a big fight.

“I know that if I lost this fight, then I wouldn’t take it again…The reason why he is trying to fight me again is because he is going to make more money fighting me than anyone else, even though he knows he will lose again.”

I have to agree with Mayweather 100%. Maidana probably knows he doesn’t stand a ghost of a chance of winning the fight other than a lucky knockout, but the payday he’s getting is so amazingly good that he was going to campaign for the rematch. He got the rematch now, but it’s so sad that he’s ruining his moment in the sun by croaking about the gloves. He really needs to move on, doesn’t he?

Mayweather is the king in this equation being that he’s the A-side, so there’s not much Maidana can do is just obediently accept that Mayweather isn’t going to let him wear his gloves. It’s good to be the king. But by Maidana stubbornly insisting on wearing his Everlast MX gloves he’s coming across as scary determined. I just hope he doesn’t pull out of the fight if he doesn’t get his way. The sooner Maidana comes to terms with the fact that he’s not going to be able to wear his favorite gloves the better off he’ll be.

“To be honest, Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez are better fighters than Maidana. They are better, stronger boxers. With me and Canelo, it was more of a chess match as opposed to Maidana who came at me very dirty and reckless. I knew something crazy was going to happen in our fight, which it did, I got a headbutt.”

Yes, the Mayweather-Maidana fight last May was painful to watch because it had so much wild fouling in that fight, and it shocking and disappointing how out of control the fight got. The referee working the fight Tony Weeks looked like he was just in the ring getting a good view of the fight like a fan who had wondered into the ring to watch the action instead of someone who was supposed to control the action.

It’s pretty much academic at this point that Cotto and Canelo are on a different level as Maidana in terms of boxing skills. Those guys are technicians of the sport. Both are flawed in their own way, but they’re definitely skilled technicians that are constantly thinking. The approach Maidana used against Mayweather last May was that of bull lowering his head and charging straight ahead to try and mow Mayweather over.

Maidana initially had some success during the first few rounds while Mayweather was figuring him out looking at a plan of action. But once Mayweather adapted to what Maidana was doing in the ring, he was able to negate pretty much everything he was doing aside from the occasional low blow and rabbit punch. Those things were impossible for Mayweather to deal with without the help of the referee stepping in to do his job.



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