What next for Maidana?

[Manos de Piedra]

i would like to see a khan rematch but most likely he is fighting mayweather next so that isnt going to happen. i also wouldnt mind a fight against mayweather but mayweather would destroy maidana because of styles (although whats new with mayweather fights). i would like to see him fight garcia but im sure that garcia will have an easier fight at welter before maidana. i would love to see a fight against thurman. or lets make a huge fight in argentina against matthysse.

You read my mind.
I would had Provodnikov to that list.

[amat]

Provodnikov isn't on the list, he is THE list for me. I know both of them deserve bigger money fights but I can not think of a more pleasing fight to give us in the middle of the new year. Pretty sure Provodnikov is Top Rank so it will remain a mythical wet dream type of matchup. Maidana really does deserve a really big day versus Mayweather though.

I thought the dream scenario for the last Mayweather card was Garcia being annihilated by Lucas and then fighting Mayweather. The devastating KO punchers are few and far between and thought it would have made for great intrigue for Mayweather's next bout. There isn't really any intrigue for a Garcia matchup and definitely not for a Khan pairing. Give him Maidana, hes the next best thing and you know he's not going to quit. He won't win either but at least you can trust that he'll be checked in til the last bell.

[powerpuncher]

Provodnikov isn't on the list, he is THE list for me. I know both of them deserve bigger money fights but I can not think of a more pleasing fight to give us in the middle of the new year. Pretty sure Provodnikov is Top Rank so it will remain a mythical wet dream type of matchup. Maidana really does deserve a really big day versus Mayweather though.

I thought the dream scenario for the last Mayweather card was Garcia being annihilated by Lucas and then fighting Mayweather. The devastating KO punchers are few and far between and thought it would have made for great intrigue for Mayweather's next bout. There isn't really any intrigue for a Garcia matchup and definitely not for a Khan pairing. Give him Maidana, hes the next best thing and you know he's not going to quit. He won't win either but at least you can trust that he'll be checked in til the last bell.

did you watch the maidana/alexander fight? it was pretty boring with alexander just outboxing him. i think that mayweather would make it boring. maidana wouldnt be able to fight his fight at all.

[amat]

Provodnikov isn't on the list, he is THE list for me. I know both of them deserve bigger money fights but I can not think of a more pleasing fight to give us in the middle of the new year. Pretty sure Provodnikov is Top Rank so it will remain a mythical wet dream type of matchup. Maidana really does deserve a really big day versus Mayweather though.

I thought the dream scenario for the last Mayweather card was Garcia being annihilated by Lucas and then fighting Mayweather. The devastating KO punchers are few and far between and thought it would have made for great intrigue for Mayweather's next bout. There isn't really any intrigue for a Garcia matchup and definitely not for a Khan pairing. Give him Maidana, hes the next best thing and you know he's not going to quit. He won't win either but at least you can trust that he'll be checked in til the last bell.

did you watch the maidana/alexander fight? it was pretty boring with alexander just outboxing him. i think that mayweather would make it boring. maidana wouldnt be able to fight his fight at all.

Of course. Maidana has improved since though, he's gotten much faster at 147,he was basically just plodding in the Alexander fight. I think he's a much better fighter under Garcia, Saturday made that clear. While Alexander is a much better mover then Broner is, the volume of Maidana was impressive. I think that has everything to do with him upgrading his corner and settling into 147.

As I said, I don't think Maidana wins but it surely has more intrigue then a bout with Amir Khan. It's going to be on PPV, might as well make it halfway worth it.

[greynotsoold]

Maidana reminded me of Jorge castro in the Broner fight- in fact, the whole fight reminded me of the castro v John david jackson fight. This is why...
Jackson, like Broner, was had some defensive liabilities. Jackson, like Broner, had his feet too far apart to move well, so they were standing in place trying to roll and slip, and counter. Because their feet were wrong, they had to square up to counter, so they ended up getting hit, and the counters were poking and slapping, not jolting.
Maidana did the same thing Castro did against Jackson. Big wide looping right- if it lands, great. If not, you use it as cover to shift your feet into a southpaw stance (ala Bob Fitzsimmons a century ago) and throw your left from that angle. That is how Castro KO'd Jackson- in fact, he hit him off that move throughout the fight, just as Maidana did to Broner.
Just because a guy is stylistically crude doesn't mean that he isn't thinking real sharp.

[p4pking]

Good points grey, that makes sense now that you mention it. Maidana used his left hook a lot more than I expected or had seen him do before and he actually had much better feet than Broner. In the first KD as Paulie pointed out on the mic, he had Adrien bite thinking he was jabbing to the body and turned it into a hook, hadn't seen him do that before and it's a move I really like. Morales used to be really good with that as well.