"I know he is the favorite. But I don't care. I've crossed paths with lions. He still hasn't fought with men. He hasn't beat anyone yet to be a star. The cow has messed with the bull."
In today's interview, when the guy asks Chino what he thought about Mayweather calling him a bum, Maidana goes, 'Maybe I am, and maybe I'm not. I don't care.'
Badass.
What other fighter today can deliver a line like that? Duran would've said it just like that. I mean, NOBODY fighting today is able to talk about fighting like Marcos. I'll give you that the specter of Kovalev having killed a guy(accidentally) gives him an air of badassness(and, yes, I know it's in poor taste to say that him having killed a guy makes him badass but... it's boxing. Boxing is often in poor taste.) And GGG, Matthysse are badasses IN the ring...
But Maidana....
He makes Floyd seem like some annoying high school kid. Years and years now Floyd has had the mic and he has been unable to say a single memorable or funny thing. Floyd might be the world's best fighter. But his words sound so hollow. His comedy is so forced. Larry Bird, Magic, Barkley, Ali(almost any famous athlete that comes to my mind free associating) would so effortlessly make you laugh saying almost anything.
Floyd the fighter: incredible. Floyd the talker: weak.
What about Marcos saying(in Spanish)'I don't give a #### about this guy.' What a moment! It was the timing of him saying it. And he made Garcia and Ellerbe laugh at the same time! Both of them were taken by surprise.
Now, if Floyd were able to stop Maidana this time... maybe it could give him an opportunity to say something with a bit more... something. Gravitas? Levity? He always sounds profoundly unhappy to me when he's talking. Of course, he never seems unhappy in the ring.
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