What Maidana’s team – Robert Garcia, Mikey Garcia and Eduardo Garcia – concluded is that Maidana needs to be in better condition for his rematch with Mayweather on September 13th, and he needs to throw more body shots. Maidana missed many of his punches to the head of Mayweather, and they believe that he’d be better off if he focused downstairs with his shots.
These are observations that pretty much everyone already knew. Anyone with kind of sense could tell you that Maidana needed to throw more body punches during the first encounter with Mayweather, but Maidana is stubborn fighter who mainly likes to throw head shots.
I believe that he’s remain resistant to change as far as being coached into throwing more punches to the body. Maidana’s conditioning is the main problem that they have. It’s kind of late in the game for Team Maidana to be taking about wanting to build up his stamina with 9 days left before the fight. It’s simply not going to happen. If they haven’t worked on his stamina enough by now, it’s too late to make any real lasting changes to Maidana’s cardiovascular system in a week and half.
Here’s what Team Maidana had to say in their strategy session for the Mayweather fight:
Eduardo García: “Hitting Mayweather with head shots is difficult.”
Robert Garcia: “We got to go to the body.”
Eduardo García: “Yeah, he [Maidana] needs to work the body more. I bet Floyd is going to run around more.”
Robert Garcia: “Dad, even if he wants to run, he can’t. How is he going to run with a fighter like that all over him?”
Eduardo García: “Exactly, he has to keep Floyd busy and not let him think.”
Robert Garcia: “Not every punch lands, but he made it very active.”
Eduardo García: “That’s how it should be.”
Robert Garcia: “When Chino gets really low is when he has an advantage.”
Mikey Garcia: “During sparring [against Maidana], I fund I had to get real low.”
Robert Garcia: “Because he was disrupting you, right?”
Mikey Garcia: “He gets so low that it makes it really hard to hit him.”
Robert Garcia: “Watch him here. During the first fight, Maidana threw that curved punch a lot. Now he’s throwing his right a lot straighter, right?”
Eduardo García: “He has to be better conditioned so he fights for all 12 rounds with the same rhythm. Now that he’s sparring for 12 rounds, I want to see him do as well in the 12th as he does in the 1st or even better.”
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