Good read. I dont think anyone is surprised. Floyd wanted Khan all along.
Boxing fans all over the globe are rumbling about Floyd Mayweather and the fan poll that seems to have defied the laws of logic.
Back on February 3, Mayweather announced that he would allow fans to decide whether he's face Amir Khan or Marcos Maidana on May 3. His team quickly assembled a fan poll on the home page of Mayweather Promotions and, just as soon as the votes began to come in, the heavy-handed Argentine, Maidana, assumed a solid lead.
However, as the one-week poll was coming to a close, the UK's Amir Khan made a miraculous comeback to eventually win it all by a 57% to 43% margin.
Meanwhile, independent polls were unanimous in naming Maidana an easy winner. ESPN and ESPN Deportes had Maidana the winner by tallies of 63% to 37% and 82%-18%, respectively. ********* saw Maidana winning by a 78% to 22% margin and even Golden Boy-owned ****** saw Maidana come out ahead with a 57%-43% result.
Fan buzz is decidedly negative for the result rendered by Team Mayweather and cries of "Fix" have been hurled around the Internet.
Khan, who is the bigger name of the two candidates and, presumably, the easier to sell, is truly undeserving of the major showcase fight and the fans are letting it be known.
What say you, loyal fans?
If it wasn't fixed what it tells me is that the poll on his site with his fans wanted him to have the easier fight (even though he beats both) and wanted to see what it's like to have Mayweather have a ko. A lot of his fans are too young to remember them.
Fixed as in they asked the correct group on the correct medium. On social media Khan was always going to win check his number of followers out compared to Maidana.
Those other polls aren't much better though, they are also non scientific so while they do probably reflect more closely the audience of those sites and most American boxing fans it does not make their poll scientific or valid either. Plus all those poll for Maidana are probably the same people, because if you go to the boxing section of ESPN and want to answer the poll you probably also go to The Ring and other boxing related places and would also want to answer their polls also.
That is all they needed to do, and really if you want a poll to come out a certain way that is what you do.
it was clearly rigged, three other polls had maidana ahead by a huge margin, meanwhile the ***** poll had con ahead... easier matchup, easy KO victory for floyd