(Photo credit: Sumio Yamada) By Chris Williams: Mark my words, if former two division world champion Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KOs) doesn’t have at least a 15 pound weight advantage tonight against WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KOs) then he’s heading for a straight clowning for 12 rounds in their “Mayhem” fight card at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Maidana, 31, had a comfortable 15 pound weight advantage last May in scaling in at 165 pounds the night of the fight compared to Mayweather’s 150. Boxing fans and the media like to point to Maidana’s aggressiveness and his fast blitzkrieg attack in the first 4 rounds of the fight as the factors for why Mayweather struggled. That’s not it.