Why was Maidana able to get up from this liver shot?

[Da Machine]

I don't need Compubox to see that Khan was landing AT WILL on Maidana. It was almost embarrassingly easy to land on him.

It's easy to make blanket statements even when clearly false.

[John Barron]

I don't need Compubox to see that Khan was landing AT WILL on Maidana. It was almost embarrassingly easy to land on him.

Whilst bouncing combinations off Maidana's head

um yeah he really messed him up...

[TRTboy]

As someone who has taken a liver shot in sparring I am in awe of how maidana got up from that. From his initial reaction I never would have thought he got up from that within 10 seconds if I didn't see the ten count.

[TRTboy]

Maidana is weak to the body.

Absolute nonsense. Everybody is weak to the body if you get hit in the right spot EVERYBODY!. The thing is it is difficult to land that perfect body shot. But that one khan hit chino with was perfect and for maidana to get up from that really shows you how tough that MOTHER****ER is.

[toshmurph]

is it purely down to heart as to why he could get up but others havent?

Same reason Gatti did when Ward put him down, he's a tough mother****er!

[Dirk Diggler UK]

um yeah he really messed him up...

So you're saying Khan didn't land easily on Maidana throughout? Wow the revisionist history on this fight is quite staggering.

[baya]

You have the laughing smilie and everything lmao.. Let me get this straight, baya.. Maidana is clearly wounded and moving slow all the way up until just after the first minute of the tenth round - he rises from his stool like a 90 year old man at the beginning of the tenth - and he catches Khan with a Hail Mary punch after looking terrible for the first minute and is unable to finish a clearly-ready-to-go-Amir Khan for another two and half rounds?? Yeah. That body shot had no effect at all.

i'm incredulous at your position here - at your not knowing how maidana fights - he's not fast, never was, he's a plodding murderer with determination for days .... aaas evidenced in his fight with khan. to boot, the cat can take a monster shot and brush it off, like he did, in this exact fight.

a hail mary? really, so it was a lucky shot? really?? christ. because maidana doesn't have abnormally long arms and weird angles? c'mon dude, watch some maidana fights. trend how this guy fights and see that he's in the mold of a margarito-type fighter. running around the ring with your left hand down, because you're TIRED and getting caught with an overhand right is far from a hail mary, it's smart. it's what you're supposed to do

and unable to finish khan in the 10th? if khan's demonstrated one thing over his career is that when he's not KO'd ala prescott, he can take an awesome beating kinda like cotto / m ward and wayne mccoullough.

he only felt that body shot when he went down and after the fight, the momentum of the fight and khans penchant to be something less than smart always had maidana in the fight. as someone who has been hit to the body countless times, i can assure you of this; the important thing being that khan never touched him to the body again.

[mneronava2k]

Maidana is the definition of a warrior. He fights till he literally has nothing else to give. Maidana is willing to die inside a ring and on May 3rd there is only one question left to be answered... is Floyd willing to do the same?

It's relentlessness versus finesse. Lion versis dolphin. Brute force against intelligence.

May 3rd, we find out.

Dude..."lion vs. Dolphin"?! Lol

[FrankieBruno]

khans body shots are underrated

he just doesnt throw them as much as he should

[noStylez]

Heart, determination...those body shots can incapacitate you for more than a 10 count, I thought it was over. At the same time, how can survived was something too.