Comments Thread For: Mayweather: Maidana Can Only Win With a Knockout

[IMDAZED]

A Maidana KO is possible but I think Mayweather gives something away in his commentary here, something I've noted for a while. And that is...he's not going to move as much as you think. He can't, actually, and he's smart enough to know that. In order to beat Maidana, Mayweather will have to fight smart in the trenches and off the ropes, a la Nelson-Fenech II or Toney-Jirov.

[doom_specialist]

Some people posting in this thread need to get hit by a person wearing Grants. Just because they're called pillows doesn't mean they actually are.

Saying that Maidana only has world class power when wearing a particular brand of glove is pretty damned disrespectful. Unfamiliarity with the glove I could understand, but saying that the glove completely takes his ability to knock a person out is just heinous.

[radioraheem]

A Maidana KO is possible but I think Mayweather gives something away in his commentary here, something I've noted for a while. And that is...he's not going to move as much as you think. He can't, actually, and he's smart enough to know that. In order to beat Maidana, Mayweather will have to fight smart in the trenches and off the ropes, a la Nelson-Fenech II or Toney-Jirov.

He can still move and you'll soon see that. You're talking about a guy that regularly is seen running miles and miles in Vegas and outside of Vegas. His father also said that he would be moving more, but not all the time. Keep in mind that the Guerrero fight was just a year ago, and you saw how well he moved there whenever he wanted. Let's not act like that fight was 5 years ago.

[radioraheem]

Some people posting in this thread need to get hit by a person wearing Grants. Just because they're called pillows doesn't mean they actually are.

Saying that Maidana only has world class power when wearing a particular brand of glove is pretty damned disrespectful. Unfamiliarity with the glove I could understand, but saying that the glove completely takes his ability to knock a person out is just heinous.

Don't worry about that, that's just the keyboard mafia talkers.

[bigjavi973]

FLO these nuts....most of yall sound real ******ed saying Maidana won....hell you don't even believe it, cant justify it with out sounding incoherent.


How about this, learn how to score fights then were can discuss the outcome of a fight.

Better yet, form an opinion based off facts and not revisionist history.


Maidana was competitive and fought his heart out, if the fight played out the way it did and it wasn't Mayweather, Maidana would have still lost.

Fights are scored round by round and there is no way you can justify giving Maidana 7 rounds when he barely won 4....stop reaching and learn more about boxing

How did he barely win 4? ahahahahahahahahaha look at my other posts for scoring. Your score is laughable.

[The Big Dunn]

A Maidana KO is possible but I think Mayweather gives something away in his commentary here, something I've noted for a while. And that is...he's not going to move as much as you think. He can't, actually, and he's smart enough to know that. In order to beat Maidana, Mayweather will have to fight smart in the trenches and off the ropes, a la Nelson-Fenech II or Toney-Jirov.

He can still move and you'll soon see that. You're talking about a guy that regularly is seen running miles and miles in Vegas and outside of Vegas. His father also said that he would be moving more, but not all the time. Keep in mind that the Guerrero fight was just a year ago, and you saw how well he moved there whenever he wanted. Let's not act like that fight was 5 years ago.

Agree with dazed radioraheem. Floyd went to the ropes IMO because maidana was very effective in the middle of the ring for a lot of the 1st fight. Ghost and Canelo couldn't find Floyd, maidana was able to.

Floyd may stick and move rds 10-12 if he has a substantial lead. But I don't expect to see what we saw in 2013.

[bigjavi973]

Your using judges to validate this? Just watch the fight yourself. The rounds I named Mayweather clearly won them. Maidana clearly won rounds 1,5 and you could conceivably give him round 3. Out of the first 6 he only clearly won 2 rounds.

Your score is laughable cuz even the commentators said that the judge that had the draw had the closest score, that they didnt know what fight the other judges was watching. Teddy atlas said the same. The majority of fans of boxing had 7-5 for mayweather.

[IMDAZED]

He can still move and you'll soon see that. You're talking about a guy that regularly is seen running miles and miles in Vegas and outside of Vegas. His father also said that he would be moving more, but not all the time. Keep in mind that the Guerrero fight was just a year ago, and you saw how well he moved there whenever he wanted. Let's not act like that fight was 5 years ago.

Actually, he hated his Guerrero performance and always says that, partially because he knows he can't get away with that against a better aggressor (like Maidana).

I'd be shocked if he is able to move more and maintain it. I believe that while he will move some (and give the impression early on that moving more is his plan), they'll be working on in-fighting, particularly off the ropes as that is the only way he'll be able to damage Maidana's head and body and back him off, possibly even stop him.

[IMDAZED]

Agree with dazed radioraheem. Floyd went to the ropes IMO because maidana was very effective in the middle of the ring for a lot of the 1st fight. Ghost and Canelo couldn't find Floyd, maidana was able to.

Floyd may stick and move rds 10-12 if he has a substantial lead. But I don't expect to see what we saw in 2013.

Well said.

[bigjavi973]

Exactly. Floyd stood right in front of Maidana and sat down with him while Maidana swung from the fences and he still couldn't hurt him.

Oh, that's right. Maidana needed the light, custom, Everlast, no padding, gloves to win.

Silly me.

Oh are you talking about the NSAC legally approved red punchers glove that mayweather said no to? Even though his own stablemates used them in their fights that same night? Yes, silly you.