Mayweather vs. Maidana: Have we all been duped hoodwinked and bamboozled?

floyd103By Danny Ech: First let me say that it is my soul purpose when I write an article on Boxing News 24 to cause YOU the reader to think and ask yourselves questions about what you are seeing instead of just accepting what is being fed to YOU through media. Let me also say that what I am going to share with YOU the reader are just my thoughts and opinions in NO way am I saying this is true because only time will tell plus every other article everywhere else is pretty much saying the same things so here’s something different.

To be duped is defined as “To use your targets EMOTIONS to CONFUSE their THOUGHTS” i.e. EMOTIONS CONFUSE THOUGHTS. Hood-Winked is defined as “To have the wool be pulled over your eyes” so now EMOTIONS CONFUSE THOUGHTS BY PULLING THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES. Bamboozled is defined as “To take in by ELABORATE METHODS of DECEIT” so now EMOTIONS CONFUSE THOUGHTS BY PULLING THE WOOL OVER YOUR EYES BY ELABORATE METHODS OF DECEIT.

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Mayweather’s struggles do not compare to the struggles of the greats

floyd666333By Anthony Mason: Floyd Mayweather Jr’s last performance against an ordinary opponent in Marcos Maidana last Saturday night was hardly impressive. Roger Mayweather himself stated that Maidana had not beaten anyone that impressed him. Despite his own uncle and trainer admitting the ordinary status of Maidana, Floyd clearly lost four to five rounds. And it’s not like Floyd is well past his prime, either.

Floyd was coming off a win against a solid average opponent in Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, and sustained absolutely no damage in that fight. Many considered his win over Canelo to be one of the finest performances in his career, so it is ludicrous to immediately switch to saying that Floyd is getting old and slowing down. Although he is 37, several fighters have peaked in their mid-30s, while others peaked in their early 20s, so age is not indicative of a fighter’s prime.

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Ward and Hunter had Mayweather winning comfortably over Maidana

mayweather521By Chris Williams: Two of boxing’s greatest minds, WBA super middleweight champion Andre Ward and trainer Virgil Hunter, both saw the Floyd Mayweather Jr. – Marcos Maidana fight last Saturday night, and they saw absolutely nothing controversial about the judges giving Mayweather Jr. the 12 round decision victory. If anything, they felt that it should have been a unanimous decision instead of a majority decision.

To Ward and Hunter, it was a clear cut 8 rounds to 4 victory for Mayweather in the fight. Like everyone, they saw Maidana throwing a lot of punches, but they also observed that he was missing all night long instead of landing with those punches. You’re not supposed to win rounds based on missed shots, as the name of the game is to score punches that land. Maidana simply wasn’t landing with the punches he was throwing, they felt.

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Atlas: Maidana will have a good chance of beating Mayweather in rematch

maidana52By Dan Ambrose: ESPN commentator Teddy Atlas sees Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) as gaining strength and confidence from his good performance against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) last Saturday night, and using that confidence to take the fight to Mayweather in an even more aggressive manner in their possible rematch in September of this year. Atlas blames Mayweather’s poor performance in the fight on him putting too much emphasis on his defense at the expense of his offense.

Atlas thinks Mayweather could have shut Maidana down completely and knock him out if he had taken the fight to him instead of sitting back against the ropes to look for counter shot opportunities. Mayweather thought he could halt Maidana’s forward motion with single punches while he was coming forward, but Maidana walked through these punches all night long to get in close to throw his nonstop bombs. Atlas thinks Mayweather could have kept Maidana from getting anything off if he had just thrown combinations.

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Mayweather says he’ll be back in September, possibly against Maidana

floyd2By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) is contemplating giving Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) another fight after the two of them went toe-to-toe for 12 action-packed rounds last Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Maidana fought well enough to where a handful of fight fans felt that he deserved the win. But even the ones that felt that Mayweather edged it, were pleased enough with the fight to want to see the two go at it a second time.

No one has fought Mayweather this competitive since his first fight against Jose Luis Castillo many years ago, and it was refreshing for fans to see Mayweather having to push himself to a victory instead of him just going out and effortlessly beating his opponents.

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Mayweather exposed by Maidana’s aggression

maidana33333By Yannis Mihanos: Last Saturday night I witnessed a different kind of fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KO’s) having to struggle against WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) in their fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. I was not very surprised by Maidana as he did what he was supposed to do, he talked the talk and walked the walk.

From round 1, Maidana did what he’s good at: Being aggressive and he stayed that way for the entire 12 rounds of the fight in hunting and hitting Mayweather with everything he had. Of course, that was not an easy task for Maidana to land his big shots against the hard to hit Mayweather.

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Maidana: When they took away my gloves, they took away my advantage

maidana6444By Allan Fox: Former WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) isn’t too happy about his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) last Saturday night, because he feels that he was robbed by the judges in his 12 round majority decision loss at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Maidana connected with over 200 shots on Mayweather, and kept him under constant pressure for the entire 12 rounds of the fight, yet the judges scored it 116-112, 117-111, and 114-114.

“I feel this was an injustice,” Maidana said. He thinks he did more than enough to deserve the win in the fight, and he boxing fans at ringside seemed to agree with him in mass judging by their boos at the final decision.

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Alex Ariza: “This is the Mayweather I Like A lot More“

floyd9999By Danny Ech: World Renowned strength and conditioning coach Alex Ariza, the man who trained Marcos Maidana alongside Robert Garcia for Maidana’s strength and condition and nutrition for his upcoming match against number one pound for pound Floyd Mayweather had a few things to say post fight. Alex Ariza is probably most popular for his outstanding work and one of the “master minds “alongside trainer Freddie Roach behind the success of the Great Manny Pacquiao and his rise to the top of the sport.

Alex Ariza also worked with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. but after some time and a few fall outs Ariza no longer works with either fighter and has now been dedicated to Marcos Chino Maidana. Now that the Mayweather vs. Maidana epic event has come and gone and the dust has settled a little bit I was curious to see how both teams felt about the fight after all the Showtime All Access & ESPN cameras were gone.

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Mayweather gives Thanks to his fans

By Chris Williams: WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) took time out from his busy schedule to give thanks to the thousands of fans who came out to Las Vegas, Nevada to give him support in his unification fight against WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) at the MGM Grand. Mayweather is very appreciative of his fans who made themselves heard during the fight and helped him grind out a 12 round majority decision victory over Maidana.

Mayweather said on his twitter, “I just wanted to say thanks and I appreciate you all! I also want to thank everybody who bought pay-per-view… I love you all ! without you all, I wouldn’t be where I’m at today.”

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Mayweather Jr. vs. Maidana: is Floyd starting to decline?

floyd722By Gerardo Granados: Once upon a time there was a boxer who was able to handle pressure fighters with such ease, that some boxing fans thought that he belonged to the all-time top ten greatest list; but now it seems like father time Kronos will not forgive him and at age 37 has already started to diminish his once outstanding boxing skills. Don’t get me wrong I loved the way Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) fought last Saturday night, it was marvelous to see how hard he wanted to destroy Floyd (46-0, 26 KO’s), Chino was there to punch Money into submission. While it was surprising to see that Floyd had a wrong game plan and it took him too much time to adjust, not the less he tried to please fight fans.

Maidana had the weight advantage and that is a factor to consider but the definitive factor was his hunger and determination. Marcos showed that he has improved a lot since he joined trainer Garcia who has turned him into intimidating fighter. The face expression of Floyd while the score cards were announced is simply priceless.

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