LAS VEGAS (Feb. 24, 2014) – After weeks of speculation, including feedback from fans across an array of social media platforms, boxing’s pound-for-pound superstar, pay-per-view king and WBC Welterweight World Champion Floyd “Money” Mayweather will face the dangerous, power-punching WBA Welterweight World Champion Marcos “El Chino” Maidana on Saturday, May 3, live on SHOWTIME PPV.
Mayweather vs. Maidana, a 12-round world championship unification bout for Mayweather and Maidana’s respective 147-pound titles, is promoted by Mayweather Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions. The event will be produced and distributed live by SHOWTIME PPV and is the third fight of a lucrative six-fight deal with Showtime Networks Inc.
By Rocky Esposito: Marcos Maidana is a fun fighter to watch and he is very easy to root for. He might not be the most technically skilled boxer alive, but for all that he lacks, he makes up for it with his aggressive/come forward style, his heart, and his will to win. Also, Maidana possesses a very rare trait that simply cannot be taught, and that is… He knows how to deal with and handle adversity inside the ring extremely well. Whenever he has a set back inside the ring, he does not go into panic mode or have a systems shutdown. On the contrary, he seems to come back with even sharper focus and determination.
By Chris Williams: In what could be a crushing blow to the career of Amir Khan, WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-3, 31 KO’s) is saying that he’ll be the one facing Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 3rd. Nothing has been confirmed or announced about this yet, but Maidana seems to think he’ll be the one in the ring with Mayweather. 
By Scott Gilfoid: A huge fight card fight is being talked about for May 3rd headlined by Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana with the co-feature fight being Amir Khan vs. Adrien Broner, according to 
By Chris Williams: Roger Mayweather, the uncle for Floyd Mayweather Jr., is saying that Marcos Maidana will be getting the fight with Mayweather Jr. on May 3rd and not Amir Khan. If this is true, then Khan will have won the poll on Mayweather’s website for nothing, because Khan defeated Maidana in the poll 57% to 43%, and he’s talking as if he’s got the fight in the bag now. But Mayweather Jr. is someone that can change his mind, and it could be that he decided that Maidana is the bigger money fight than facing Khan on Cinco de Mayo and risking that the fight does poorly. 
By Allan Fox: It didn’t take WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana to respond to Floyd Mayweather’s tweet from this morning where Mayweather described Maidana as being little more than a “one-piece meal with biscuit.” Maidana fired back on his facebook reminding Mayweather that he recently beat little Mayweather, Adrien Broner. 
By 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. 
by 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.