Amir Khan Believes Maidana is Having Weight Struggles

By Mark Vester

During Saturday's live boxing broadcast on Sky Sports, WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan sat down with the broadcasters at a roundtable to discuss his upcoming fight with Marcos Maidana on December 11 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Khan, who went face to face with Maidana a fews ago at a London press conference, said the hard-punching challenger looked chubby. Khan estimates Maidana to be at least 154-pounds.  

"Maidana looks pudgy to me. He looked heavy....about 11 stones. The fight is at 10 stones," Khan said.

Reports in Argentina indicate Maidana struggled to make weight for his recent fight against former champion DeMarcus Corley on August 28. In what many thought was an easy fight on paper, the opposite took place when Maidana struggled with Corley and looked exhausted in the late rounds. He still won by unanimous decision.

But the reports also said Maidana overlooked Corley and "took it easy" during training camp. For the fight Khan, which Maidana chased for over a year, he will train for the fight of his life. With over two months to go before the weigh-in, Maidana has more than enough time to easily make the junior welterweight limit of 140-pounds.