Thread: Floyd on Maidana rematch

Floyd was pretty dismissive of Maidana. Complains about low blows/dirty fighting.

When asked whether Maidana was his toughest fight, says no, Emmanuel Augustus was much tougher and a better fighter.

Says Cotto was a much better boxer, and he and Canelo hit much harder.

Still maintains that Maidana's success was because of Floyd's choice to stand and fight as opposed to sticking/moving and staying off the ropes. Not sure if I agree with Floyd, I think Maidana deserves a lot more credit for making the fight the way it turned out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqfPWOicpX4

Floyd admits one thing though, that Maidana shocked him with his jabbing ability. That's something that Robert Garcia developed in Chino because he sure as fuck wasn't doing work with his jabs before.

Originally Posted by Beanflicker

Floyd admits one thing though, that Maidana shocked him with his jabbing ability. That's something that Robert Garcia developed in Chino because he sure as fuck wasn't doing work with his jabs before.

I agree with that, absolutely. Garcia had done good things with Maidana. Maidana needs some credit too, he had the brains to know he needed to make some drastic changes to truly compete at the top, plus he listens to his corner.
Garcia has a good team.

Originally Posted by Beanflicker

Floyd was pretty dismissive of Maidana. Complains about low blows/dirty fighting.

When asked whether Maidana was his toughest fight, says no, Emmanuel Augustus was much tougher and a better fighter.

Says Cotto was a much better boxer, and he and Canelo hit much harder.

Still maintains that Maidana's success was because of Floyd's choice to stand and fight as opposed to sticking/moving and staying off the ropes. Not sure if I agree with Floyd, I think Maidana deserves a lot more credit for making the fight the way it turned out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqfPWOicpX4

Going to have to be a rematch to prove what he said!
Anyway, now we know, there is at least one way to give Floyd trouble in the ring.
I wouldn't worry if I was Floyd, there
aren't that many Maidana's out there.

Floyd is probably right that Cotto was tougher and Canelo hits harder than Chino. Floyd deliberately took liberties against Chino because he knew he could get away with it.

Originally Posted by beenKOed

Originally Posted by Beanflicker

Floyd admits one thing though, that Maidana shocked him with his jabbing ability. That's something that Robert Garcia developed in Chino because he sure as fuck wasn't doing work with his jabs before.

I agree with that, absolutely. Garcia had done good things with Maidana. Maidana needs some credit too, he had the brains to know he needed to make some drastic changes to truly compete at the top, plus he listens to his corner.
Garcia has a good team.

For some reason a lot of people seem to rag on Garcia as being overrated, but I think his work with Chino proves he is one of the top guys in the business IMO. The Maidana who whipped Broner and almost beat Floyd isn't the same guy who lost to Khan and Alexander.

I caught Mayweather being quite dirty actually.

He must have thought the headbutt was deliberate because he threw a fair few elbows over the next couple of rounds.

Floyd said he wanted to fight on the ropes but I think that's cause he underestimated Maidana. Once he saw what Maidana had he couldn't get control of what was happening until the 6 or 7th round.

Originally Posted by Jimanuel Boogustus

I caught Mayweather being quite dirty actually.

He must have thought the headbutt was deliberate because he threw a fair few elbows over the next couple of rounds.

I saw the elbows too. To be fair to Floyd, when you have an ultra aggressive fighter like
Maidana you are going to have some unintentional fouls, so I don't blame Floyd for letting him know about it.
I don't think Maidana is a dirty fighter. Of course, Floyd might have another opinion. LOL

Maidana was dirty but floyd shouldn't talk about dirty his second favorite punch is the forearm/elbow

Floyd's spent most of his career using his forearm and elbows to create space, so it's not like he's a choir boy in there either.

Floyd boxes with a perma-chicken wing elbow ff. Practically needs a glove on it. I knew it wouldn't take long for whatever respect gained in that scrap to dissipate once he started Floyding it again Whaah.

Originally Posted by Beanflicker

Floyd's spent most of his career using his forearm and elbows to create space, so it's not like he's a choir boy in there either.

Yeah but he turned it up a notch, this time. There were some real crafty elbows being flung in there by Floyd.

His elbows are one of his biggest weapons against inside fighters who crowd him. Ricky Hatton found that out as well.

It's very crafty how he uses them. He always knows where the referee is and he'll use whichever arm is on the ref's blind side and use the arm that the ref can see to hide it.

Originally Posted by Beanflicker

His elbows are one of his biggest weapons against inside fighters who crowd him. Ricky Hatton found that out as well.

It's very crafty how he uses them. He always knows where the referee is and he'll use whichever arm is on the ref's blind side and use the arm that the ref can see to hide it.

Commonly known as cheating, fouling, not being quite good enough to get through a fight without using it.