Maidana reminds me of jorge castro, and that guy won a lot of fights. He was crude, stylistically, strong and durable. But he was also more thoughtful than he appeared. Maidana moved his feet around to give himself some angles against broner in ways that were straight out of the castro playbook.
I don't think that you are going to pot-shot Mayweather and get him out- though anything can happen- because he is too aware in the ring. I don't think that you are going to bully him around and maul him because he can fight inside, he can move effectively, and all Mayweathers can punch when they want to.
To beat him I think you need to be a tough durable guy that can keep doing things he doesn't expect, lay traps for him. Like Dempsey said, sometimes the smart guys forget the other guy is thinking too. I do not know if maidana is that clever and I don't expect him to be.