Mayweather not worried about Maidana

By Chris Williams: Marcos Maidana (35-3, 31 KO’s) may have pulled off an impressive win in defeating WBA welterweight champion Adrien Broner this month to win his WBA 147 lb. title, but the victory doesn’t have Floyd Mayweather Jr. at all scared of him or worried about whether or not he can beat him on May 3rd if he’s the one that Money May faces. In this tweet, Mayweather reduces the hard punching Maidana to little more than just a one-piece biscuit.

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Rios likes Maidana vs. Mayweather fight

maidanaBy Dan Ambrose: Recent Manny Pacquiao victim Brandon Rios says he likes the idea of a fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana on May 3rd. Rios thinks the hard-hitting Maidana would make it interesting against Mayweather because of his power, and Mayweather’s habit of standing in front of his opponents nowadays the same way that Adrien Broner did in his loss to Maidana on December 14th this month.

Rios has seen a lot of Maidana, because he trains in the same gym with him and shares the same trainer in Robert Garcia. Rios has sparred with Maidana in the past, and he knows about his power all too well.

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Maidana’s name now in the lottery jackpot for Mayweather’s next fight

maidana54343by James Le Blanc:  While everyone was anointing Amir Khan as Floyd Mayweather Jr’s next opponent in May I just couldn’t see it. In the UK they were even spreading reports that the fight was a done deal. While I am a Khan fan I still knew that Khan had not looked impressive in his recent bouts, in his last 4 bouts he lost, got knocked out, got dropped, and got one stoppage. His last two opponents were relatively unknown.  Then you had these welterweight bouts all coming at the end of the year, and to me all of them were auditions.

This is when the inexplicable happened, Amir Khan backed out of the Devon Alexander fight, you know the one where Shawn Porter replaced him and took Devon’s belt. I couldn’t believe Khan would make such a terrible move.

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