By Lem Satterfield

WBA interim-junior welterweight champion Marcos Maidana is still hungry for a crack at WBO champion Timothy Bradley. Maidana (28-1, 27 KOs) was scheduled twice to fight Bradley (25-0, 11 KOs) on HBO. He postponed two scheduled dates, June 19 and July 17, with claims of a serious back injury. It was recently disclosed that Maidana's back injury was infact an excuse to withdraw because of an internal rift with his manager.

Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer tells BoxingScene.com that Maidana's back injury claims came from the manager, and not the fighter. While Maidana is trying to break his managerial contract, he wants to keep his promotional contract with Golden Boy in place.

"As it relates to Bradley, the issue of back injuires did not come from Maidana, but from his manager, Mario Margossian. Not from Maidana. And Maidana told me, as well, that he was never told about the offer on the table for the fight with Bradley, other than that it was substantially low in number is what he was told," said Schaefer.

"So, Marcos Maidana is at issue with his manager, Mario Margossian. Maidana told me about these issues, and I was rather shocked with what's going on there. But he's perfectly happy with Golden Boy, and we have an existing contract with him and no intentions of breaking that."

Once the internal issues are sorted out, Maidana would love to get a fight with Bradley. He would like to fight Bradley as early as November. Bradley returns on July 17, making his welterweight debut against Carlos Abregu on HBO.

"Maidana, of course, would be happy to fight Bradley," said Schaefer. "He made it clear to me that he would be more than happy to fight Timothy Bradley in November or so -- if HBO is interested in buying it."

Lem Satterfield is the news editor for BoxingScene.com and the boxing editor for AOL FanHouse. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here.