De La Hoya: I’ll train Maidana for Mayweather rematch

maidana77By Allan Fox: Oscar De La Hoya says he’s open to help train Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) for a rematch against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) next September if he needs the help. De La Hoya would work alongside Maidana’s current trainer Robert Garcia and give him pointers in how to beat Mayweather.

De La Hoya lost a close and controversial 12 round split decision in 2007. De La believes that boxing fans will demand a rematch between Mayweather and Maidana due to the competitive nature, and the somewhat controversial decision. In De La Hoya’s mind, you can make a case for the Mayweather-Maidana fight having been more of a draw than a victory for either guy last Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Floyd Mayweather vs. Marcos Maidana Behind The Scenes

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By Chris Williams: WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) wanted to give his boxing fans a sneak peak behind the scenes in him getting ready for his fight last Saturday night against former WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s). The video shows a very serious Mayweather hard at work in training for the fight, doing his gym and roadwork with his personal masseuse nearby to keep him loose.

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Floyd Mayweather, Jr – Thank You

floyd002244By Marc Livitz: It may have taken many years to materialize and such behavior exhibited by the world’s top fighter may have even beckoned calls for a boycott here and there. Shame (shame) on those who turned their collective backs on the bout. Was “The Moment” a classic of any kind? Some have suggested that Marcos Maidana may have indeed gotten the best of Floyd Mayweather, Jr. last Saturday evening and gave the Las Vegas native all he could possibly handle. “The Moment” was indeed a bit more momentous than just about every “Money” Mayweather bout in recent memory, yet such a tag would likely be so for different reasons, however.

The fight was in no way a replay of the April 2002 contest between Floyd and a certain Jose Luis Castillo, so let’s not as they say, go there. What we got instead was something special, but it took oh so very agonizingly long to emerge. Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) saw his staggering knockout ratio take a hit by way of forcing the hand (or gloves) of the world’s number one pugilist to go to work. It was a ton of work, to be sure.

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Mayweather: I don’t know if I’m going to fight again or not

floyd8822By Allan Fox: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) says he’s not sure if he’s going to be continuing his boxing career following his 12 round majority decision win over Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) last Saturday night. It was a tough fight for Mayweather in which he was hit hard over 200 times by the powerful Maidana. Mayweather may have misjudged the talent and the power that Maidana had when he made the decision to be a stationary target in front of Maidana. In hindsight, it was a bad idea for Mayweather to get into the trenches with a guy like Maidana and fight his kind of fight.

When asked by reporters if he’d be interested in fighting Amir Khan, Mayweather said “I don’t know. I want to go home, sit down, and see what I come up with. I don’t know if I’m fighting again or not. He’s [Maidana] a real, real rugged guy. He don’t care where he hits you at.”

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Floyd Sr. not happy that Mayweather Jr. took shots against Maidana

floyd00001By Allan Fox: Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. says he was unhappy with the way that his son Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) spent so much time fighting off the ropes last Saturday night against Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s). Floyd Sr. says he told Mayweather Jr. that he didn’t want him staying against the ropes in that fight, and that was something that he took an issue with in his performance. Floyd Sr. also said he doesn’t like to see Mayweather Jr. taking shots like the big hits he was absorbing last Saturday against Maidana.

“It was still a good performance, but not one of his best,” Floyd Sr. said about Mayweather’s fight against Maidana. “Floyd showed that he could fight the guy’s fight. Next time around we’ll see. You don’t need to be on the ropes all the time. That was one of the things I rejected. I think it’s very important that it [the Mayweather-Maidana rematch] happen.

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Maidana-Mayweather: The Emperor’s naked again

floyd7712By Rasheed Catapang: WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (46-0, 26 KO’s) was amazing again last Saturday in defeating WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) by a 12 round majority decision at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Running away with the win as expected, in a fight were Maidana beat the stuffing out of him. That Floyd has kept his unbeaten professional record intact after the Maidana fight is truly remarkable.

Maidana, hand-picked by Mayweather and the perfect foil to make him shine, obviously didn’t read the script. Or if he did, then he wisely decided not to follow it. He gave Floyd 12 rounds of hell, delivering a sustained destructive attack Mayweather had not accounted for. Maidana morphed into a crazy but better Jose Luis Castillo – the exact type of fighter Floyd has always been avoiding, a volume puncher in his prime – and showed Mayweather the boss wears a blue “sombrero”.

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Mayweather: $32 million for 36 minutes of work against Maidana

By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr. (46-0, 26 KO’s) picked up a cool $32 million for just 36 minutes of work for his performance last Saturday night in beating WBA welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (35-4, 31 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather is now set to make an additional $38 million once the pay-per-view numbers come in from Showtime. $70 million for a fight against Maidana, which really wasn’t a big name, is very good money for boxing’s biggest star.

The man can make big bank fighting lesser stars, and it just makes you wonder how much Mayweather could wind up with if he stays around for another 3-5 more years in fighting twice a year. If Mayweather were to continue to fight twice per year and keep winning while making $70 for each fight, he’d retire with an additional $700 million to go along with with his estimated $200 million net worth that he has now. That’s very close to $1 billion. No fighter in boxing has ever made anything close to that figure, and Mayweather could be the first if he were to fight another 5-6 years without losing.

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Why Mayweather will easily win a rematch against Maidana

floyd656By David Alexander: On Saturday night, Floyd Mayweather Jr. improved to 46-0 and kept his unbeaten streak alive. Yet this fight was one of his toughest fights in his 17 year boxing career, making him uncomfortable and at times, vulnerable. Personally I scored the bout 115-113 to Mayweather. Marcos Maidana came out swinging and for the first time in a while we saw a fighter against Floyd who commanded the ring early with his awkward style and putting Mayweather on the ropes.

Few fighters have ever come as close as Maidana did to handing Mayweather his first loss. The Argentine star went on the offensive right from the opening bell and didn’t let up over the next 11 rounds. While Maidana clearly got tired as the bout went on, he never gave the champion an easy time of it. Mayweather landed crisper shots and was winning rounds in the middle of the bout.

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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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