Hatton thinks Mayweather overlooked Maidana

hatton4555By Allan Fox: Ricky Hatton believes that Floyd Mayweather Jr. may have overlooked Marcos Maidana and that was one of the reasons why Mayweather failed to perform at his usual high level. Hatton thinks that Mayweather might be having a hard time getting motivated for his opponents because he’s been at the top for so long, and because he’s beaten so many good fighters in the past.

It’s possible that Mayweather overlooked Maidana, because if he was generally concerned about whether he could beat him or not, he wouldn’t have fought in a stationary manner the way he did. Mayweather fought with his back against the ropes in many rounds, and that’s not the way he fought against Canelo, Robert Guerrero and Miguel Cotto.

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Father Time knocking on Floyd’s door?

may023By T.B: You may have missed him but Father Time [FT] was sitting ring side at the May 3rd fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) and Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada and I bet you can guess who he was there to see. They say Father Time comes to visit everyone at some point in our lives and he mostly shows up when we least expect him. Floyd Mayweather Jr got his first visit from FT right around the time Showtime’s “All Access” started documenting his every move for his up coming Maidana fight.

The fans who did tune into All Access witnessed the same tired act they saw on both the Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Robert Guerrero All Access episodes. Fans got to see Floyd’s houses, cars, woman, and friends, all of which has been shown over and over year after year.

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No Mayweather-Maidana PPV numbers, says Showtime’s Espinoza

may101By Chris Williams: In the last couple of days there’s been rumors that the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana fought drew between 800,000 and 900,000 pay-per-view buys on Showtime. If those numbers turned out to be true, it would be a very disappointing number for the fight given Mayweather’s tremendous popularity, and the fight card having the highly popular Adrien Broner and Amir Khan on the undercard. Showtime’s head of Sports Stephen Espinoza says that rumors are totally false, and the the PPV numbers for the fight are still be tabulated.

“No numbers yet,” Espinoza said to thesweetscience. “Cable hasn’t even reported yet. Any numbers floating are are pure speculation.”

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Mayweather should give Maidana rematch only if there’s no big fights out there

floyd777771By Chris Williams: In watching the replay of Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Marcos Maidana last night, it’s clear that Maidana couldn’t deal with Mayweather even with him fighting his game and giving him a major handicap by fighting Adrien Broner’s same fight that he used against Maidana last December. While the judges scored the Mayweather-Maidana fight close in giving Mayweather a 12 round majority decision by the scores of 116-112, 117-111 and 114-114, it’s clear that Mayweather would win ever round in a rematch with Maidana by fighting his normal fight.

It would be like the second fight between Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran where Duran ended up quitting. Maidana probably wouldn’t quit, but he’d end up getting clowned the same way that Duran was by Leonard in that fight. That’s why I think that Mayweather should only take the Maidana fight if he has nothing else available for him to fight as far as big named opponents that the boxing public wants to see.

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Mayweather-Maidana & Khan-Collazo replay tonight on Showtime at 9:30 pm

may55(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Chris Williams: Tonight boxing fans will get the opportunity to see the replay of Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) vs. Marcos Maidana (35-4,31 KO’s) on regular Showtime at 9:30 pm ET/PT from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Fans will also get to see the co-feature fight between Amir Khan (29-3, 19 KO’s) and Luis Collazo (35-6, 18 KO’s). Following the Showtime Championship premiere, Showtime will televise All Access: Mayweather vs. Maidana – Epilogue. This is the final episode of the Mayweather-Maidana All Access series, and it’ll go into the aftermath of their exciting fight last Saturday night.

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Mayweather’s “plan for success” nearly backfires against Maidana

1-06Over the past 10 years or so Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KO’s)has followed a basic “plan for success”. This plan is made up of  4 easy steps and if followed he will surly get the win he so desperately wants.

Step one is to find a fighter who is coming off the best victory of his career. But, this can’t be any ordinary fighter, no this fighter must also be of Mexican descent. To put it in even simpler terms this fighter just needs a Spanish last name. (Robert Guerrero, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, Miguel Cotto, Marcos Maidana ….you get the picture).

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Mayweather: Did he really struggle on the weekend?

floyd8888By Mo Hassan: As we all saw on Saturday, Marcos Maidana looked like he may had worked out the may Vinci code until Floyd Mayweather Jr. adjusted his style to take the last few rounds, but was this all part of the Mayweather Master plan.

After watching the Weekends events numerous times I could see there was some punches thrown from Maidana which Mayweather could have easily dodged but choose not to. But why? Was we starting to see the decline of the defence that Mayweather had worked so hard to build up or was this all part of the plan to make the fight more interesting to casual boxing fans so they crave a rematch?

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Mayweather Sr: Maidana doesn’t deserve a rematch

may88By Chris Williams: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. wasn’t happy with all the fouling that Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) got away with last Saturday night against his son Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KO’s) in their fight in Las Vegas, Nevada. Floyd Sr. thinks that Maidana came into the fight with an MMA type game, and used that approach to try and beat Mayweather Jr. For that reason, Floyd Sr. doesn’t think Maidana deserves a rematch with Mayweather Jr.

Floyd Sr thinks Maidana used various rough-house tactics such as kneeing, rabbit punches, low blows, head-butts and holding and hitting to gain an edge against Mayweather Jr. in their fight.

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Canelo: Maidana’s fighting style was a problem for Mayweather

mayweather521By Dan Ambrose: Former Floyd Mayweather Jr. victim, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, doesn’t seem to be agreeing with Mayweather’s excuse that he fought Marcos Maidana in the trenches on purpose last Saturday night in order to make it a fun fight for the boxing fans to witness at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather says he did it for the fans, but Canelo is under the belief that Mayweather simply couldn’t figure out Maidana’s fighting style until the second half of the fight.

Canelo thought that Maidana was ahead on the scorecards early on in the fight, but when Mayweather solved his style, he ended up falling behind and losing the fight.

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