Official Mayweather vs Maidana Master Discussion & Postfight Analysis Thread

[Resilient]

[LoadedWraps]

I love my man Floyd Money May but he was a C-hair away from doing the booty dew right there.

[Spoon23]

Rewatched the fight. Those body shots Maidana landed on Floyd were vicious.

Chino, you the man!

First 5 round was all Maidana.

[Mutchie6g]

Maidana was the AGGRESSOR he outworked Floyd and although floyd threw the sharper punches i had it a draw or a win for chino by 1 round .... granted a lot of the rounds were very close !!!

[BafanaBafana]

Watched the fight again:

My scorecard:

R1: 10-9 Maidana (clear round)
R2: 10-9 Maidana
R3: 10-9 Maidana (close round)
R4: 10-9 Maidana
R5: 10-9 Maidana (clear round)
R6: 10-9 Mayweather (clear round)
R7: 10-9 Mayweather (clear round)
R8: 10-9 Maidana (clear round)
R9: 10-9 Mayweather (clear round)
R10: 10-9 Mayweather (clear round)
R11: 10-10 50/50 round (close round)
R12: 10-9 Maidana

116-113 w/the 10-10 round or 115-113 if I give the eleventh to Floyd/or 116-112 to Maidana. Like I said, rounds 3 and 11 were close and can be flipped, perhaps 114-114 if we give Floyd the two close rounds. Rounds 2 and 4 I thought Maidana definitely won but not as clearly as the 'clear rounds' in bold. I could see it as 115-113 Mayweather but it just seems more feasible to score it 115-113 Maidana.

Maidana seemed to dictate the pace throughout most of the fight and landed many right hands and left-hooks throughout--the body work was impressive too, Mayweather only seemed to land good punches in spots and they were few and far between outside of the rounds he won clearly.

[PEPE213]

As much I dislike what Mayweather did in trying to control every single angle possible, Maidana's camp is milking it a bit too much. Don't get me wrong here, Mayweather's unreasonable push to not allow Maidana to wear the horse hair, Mexican style gloves was pathetic. Leonard Ellerbe said "Gloves that are made of horse hair, I don't think those will be allowed in the Nevada Commission moving forward." Who is he to say such a thing? Cleto Reyes are punchers gloves which consist of horse hair only for standard pro fight gloves and they're the top tier in that category, so I seriously doubt they're going to ban Cleto Reyes and any others that use horse hair. Pacquiao, Marquez, Stevenson, Martinez, Broner, Danny Garcia and many more wear these kind of gloves. Broner wore them on the undercard for crying out loud. I'm getting off topic here, the point is: Lucas Matthysse, who everyone regards as a hammer hitting fighter has worn the same gloves that Maidana wore last night and we don't see Matthysse's power go to the crapper, nor do we hear him complain about them the gloves. Here's the proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYo76I8THu0

[Go to 2:14.]
I've actually seen some people here say Matthysse is a harder puncher than Maidana.
It's still wrong and beyond annoying that they forced Maidana to wear different gloves, but if Matthysse has no problem with them Maidana really shouldn't either, knowing, of course, what type of fighter he is.

[dc3383]

I've said before I give Chino all the credit for making Floyd work for the win; it was no easy fight. But thru out the fight he may have landed 20-30 clean shots I was surprised with how many punches compubox said he landed. I watched Floyd block of or miss him most of the time. I scored the fight just as the judges did no way on Earth Chino won a round after the 5th Floyd constantly snapped his head back and the stab jab couldn't miss.

[Szef]

agree, that dumbass turned up to the biggest fight of his life with pot belly

Good call

[Spoon23]

Story of the night, Chino's brutal body punches, his relentlessness and the constant pounding that made Floyd look like he needed his mommy in the ring.

Maidana looked like the Champ. Maidana made Floyd look like a heavy bag on the ropes. Ouchy!

[Spoon23]

I never thought I'll see the day.

Floyd turned himself into a punching bag.