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Back alleys...Maidana isn't an urban street urchin, he's a country boy farmer from the sticks. His Dad is a gaucho (cowboy) and his parents live without electricity, have a read:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/oth...Las-Vegas.html
Maidana, the mandatory challenger to Khan’s WBA title, grew up humbly, in Margarita, a village of 5,000 deep in the South American countryside.
It is only an hour on horseback from there to the birthplace of the great Carlos Monzon, who held the world middleweight championship for seven years.
He admits that he is more at home on a farm with horses, hunting partridge and hare, and riding every day.
Maidana’s parents may have been poor, but their family never went hungry. Hunting and fishing, tending cattle and riding horses, he and his eight siblings lived off the land.
“If I hadn’t boxed, I’d have spent my life working there. I would have become a gaucho like my father, hunting and fishing at weekends.”
Maidana’s career was progressing nicely until the Kotelnik defeat last year. He went home to his roots, back to the remote farm where his father, Orlando, 72, lives.
“There is no electricity, and we get our water from the well,” he said, having brought with him a gift for his father — a petrol-powered generator with electrical power points.
“He liked it, but when I went back the next time, he hadn’t even used it. Some things never change.” Like Maidana’s dream.
“I want to go on to unify the belts at light-welterweight, and buy enough land and build houses for my entire family, and to own a farm myself.”
It is only an hour on horseback from there to the birthplace of the great Carlos Monzon, who held the world middleweight championship for seven years.
He admits that he is more at home on a farm with horses, hunting partridge and hare, and riding every day.
Maidana’s parents may have been poor, but their family never went hungry. Hunting and fishing, tending cattle and riding horses, he and his eight siblings lived off the land.
“If I hadn’t boxed, I’d have spent my life working there. I would have become a gaucho like my father, hunting and fishing at weekends.”
Maidana’s career was progressing nicely until the Kotelnik defeat last year. He went home to his roots, back to the remote farm where his father, Orlando, 72, lives.
“There is no electricity, and we get our water from the well,” he said, having brought with him a gift for his father — a petrol-powered generator with electrical power points.
“He liked it, but when I went back the next time, he hadn’t even used it. Some things never change.” Like Maidana’s dream.
“I want to go on to unify the belts at light-welterweight, and buy enough land and build houses for my entire family, and to own a farm myself.”
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