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

[A-Wolf]

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.

Yes, I can see that. I'll agree to disagree then, my friend.

[NearHypnos]

Recovered quickly. Some dudes can't move for minutes just the kind of thing that's different per punch. His pain was great but he at least didnt seem paralyzed and since he's got heart he pushed through it. Of course lesser men might have not beat the count, but we have to also realize others just physically CANT beat the count.

[chavezjrmexico]

i wanna see Maidana vs Garcia or Maidana vs Herrera

those would be bad ass fights !! Maidana vs Provovnicovk or even Bradley vs Maidana

[Hyper Knuckles]

He trains his liver, simple as that.

[BennyST]

He was extremely damaged no question about that. It was a "smile for me now, brother" shank to the midsection. Cost him dearly in that match. He basically never recovered from that.

what are you saying, dude? he was over it by the 2nd round.

Nah, he wasn't over it until about the 5th or 6th round. He was just arm punching, and really not doing much until the mid way point of the fight. Check it out again. He took a long time to recover, and did nothing for about four or five rounds after it.

[SN!PER]

Maidana must not be as heavy a drinker as Oscar De La Hoya.