Khan is too fast for Mayweather, Roach says

By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan’s former trainer Freddie Roach believes that if a fight between Khan and WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) takes place in the near future, Khan would triumph largely due to his superior hand speed. Roach, who has no love lost with Khan, feels that Khan’s youth and hand speed advantage would be the telling factor in a clash against the soon to be 38-year-old Mayweather.

read more

Khan to be at Mayweather-Maidana 2 fight on Saturday

khan111By Scott Gilfoid: In what has to be seen as a clear attempt to create interest in a fight between himself and WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) for early next year, Amir Khan (29-3, 19 KOs) will be at ringside this Saturday night to watch Mayweather’s rematch with slugger Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Khan wants to face Mayweather next May, and by showing up and being in the audience on Saturday, Khan is obviously hoping that Showtime will put the camera on him quite often so that the massive amounts of boxing fans that will be watching the fight will get excited about the prospect of him fighting Mayweather next May rather than someone else.

read more

Mayweather predicts Maidana will come in over 160 pounds for fight

_DSC0260(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) and his trainer Robert Garcia have been talking about how he plans on coming into this Saturday’s rematch against WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) below 160 pounds, but Mayweather thinks Maidana will be once again weighing well over 160 pounds when he gets inside the ring with him.

Maidana, who probably should be fighting in the junior middleweight division at this point in his career, weighed in sat 165 pounds the night of the fight last May against Mayweather. Maidana had rehydrated almost 20 pounds after making weight at 147.

Maidana blames his high weight on him having had only 5 weeks to train for the fight. However, Maidana weighed 165 for his fight against Adrien Broner last December as well, and he had a full 9 weeks to train for that fight and he still came in close to 170.

read more

Mayweather will cry to Kenny Bayless [about Maidana], says Robert Garcia

YouTube video
By Chris Williams: Marcos Maidana’s trainer Robert Garcia is predicting that WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) will be complaining to the referee Kenny Bayless all night long this Saturday night about Maidana’s fighting tactics in the Mayweather-Maidana rematch on Showtime PPV.

Garcia sees Mayweather taking his case to Bayless every starts getting the worst of it or when he gets fouled.

“He’s going to cry to Kenny Bayless. He’s worked like 4 Mayweather fights,” Garcia said.

read more

Mayweather and Maidana reveal some important things in All Access Episode 3

maidana566By Raj Parmar: The third episode of All Access: Mayweather-Maidana premiered yesterday at the Beachers Madhouse at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. A few interesting items were included in the show that reveals what is going on inside each of the fighter’s camps.

The episode started off with former Maidana strength and conditioning trainer Alex Ariza showing up to Floyd’s training camp to watch him train. Mayweather claimed Maidana is overweight in the mid 160’s with the fight at that point still a week away, and he should have kept Ariza in order to get the weight down.

read more

Robert Garcia wants Maidana to fight Mayweather a third time if he beats him rather than facing Pacquiao

_DSC0118(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Chris Williams: If trainer Robert Garcia gets his way his fighter Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) will look to face Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) a third time if Maidana defeats him this Saturday night rather than to move forward and fight WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao in a unification match.

Garcia rates Mayweather as a better fighter than Pacquiao, and he believes he’s the bigger fight than fighting the 35-year-old Pacquiao.

read more

Maidana plans on wearing Mayweather down with shots to his arms and shoulders

Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Chris Williams: Taking a page out of the old playbook of Rocky Marciano, Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) plans on trying to tire WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) out with punches to his arms and shoulder areas to make them too heavy for him to hold up to protect himself adequately this Saturday in their Showtime pay-per-view fight starting at 7 p.m. ET.

Marciano, a fighter with heavy hands, likely to throw hard shots to his opponent’s shoulders and arms to wear them down. Like Maidana, Marciano also threw a lot of looping shots that would connect sometimes to the back of his opponents’ heads which made him all the more dangerous to deal with.

read more

The Maidana rematch will Be easy pickings for Floyd

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.

read more

September 13 Mayweather-Maidana 2 undercard fights rated: Could one steal the show

angulo554By Gav Duthie: Mayweather and Golden Boy promotions have decided not to opt for chief undercard support this Saturday like they did with Amir Khan v Collazo but the undercard is shaping up nicely. There are some fairly competitive fights and titles on the line. Here we rate the fights and speculate if any might outshine the main event. 

Humberto Soto 64-8-2 (35) v John Molina 27-4 (22)
Fight Rating: 9/10
Fight Type: All action

This has the potential to be the fight of the night. I love fighters like John Molina. Will he ever become a world champion, probably not but it doesn’t matter. He always entertains and always gives us good fights. He’s a Mickey Ward, Arturo Gatti type throwback who will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final bell. He might feel a little hard done by on Saturday as he watches  Mickey Bey fight for a world title after he amazingly stopped him in round 10 for his only loss to date.

read more

Mayweather: I need a knockout to make a statement

Floyd Mayweather(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Allan Fox: This time WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) isn’t going to be content with just going out looking to win by a decision in his rematch against Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs).

Mayweather wants to score a knockout this time because he feels like that’s the best way for him to make a statement in this fight and show boxing fans the difference between him and Maidana. Mayweather wants to leave Maidana on the canvas and not able to answer the 10 count.

read more