![]() He let Maidana walk in, only to cuff him with a couple of hard right hands, followed by some stinging lefts. But many of his punches didn’t land cleanly.Īs he always does, Mayweather quickly adjusted. For a brief moment, it appeared Maidana might have had Mayweather hurt. He crowded Mayweather and started bombing away, throwing punches from every conceivable angle. He got busy early, establishing the jab and using his superior hand speed to frustrate Maidana.īut Maidana had other ideas. Mayweather, who closed as a minus-800 betting favorite at the MGM Resorts sports books (Maidana was plus 400), wasn’t distracted or impacted. But Maidana came into the ring weighing 165 pounds, making Mayweather, who was 148 at fight time, finding himself in the ring with a super middleweight instead of a welterweight. Whether he truly needed to get inside Maidana’s head was debatable. It was a gamesmanship ploy by Mayweather. Maidana wanted to fight in gloves stuffed with horsehair, which Mayweather objected to, and ultimately fought with gloves stuffed with foam padding. The two sides argued from late Friday afternoon until late Saturday morning before resolving the matter. There was controversy before the fighters ever made their way to the ring, as Mayweather and his camp objected to the style of gloves Maidana was going to wear. I trained hard, and he never hurt me with a punch.” “I definitely think I won this fight,” Maidana said. Maidana, who lost his World Boxing Association title to Mayweather and dropped to 35-4, was upset by the decision. But a true champion can adjust to anything.” “This was a tough, competitive fight, a fight the fans wanted to see,” Mayweather said. Mayweather, the World Boxing Council champion, claimed a majority decision, winning on Burt Clements’ scorecard 117-111 and Dave Moretti’s card 116-112. ![]() survived a 12-round street fight against Argentina’s Marcos Maidana to unify the world welterweight title and improve to 46-0 in front of a sellout crowd of 16,238. ![]() That was the story Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden, as Floyd Mayweather Jr. (Jason Bean/Las Vegas Review-Journal)īruised, somewhat battered, but still standing and still unbeaten. celebrates after defeating Marcos Maidana in their welterweight title bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas Saturday, May 3, 2014.
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