Far from impressive victory

[hugh grant]

Floyds not a great fighter. He runs most of the time and when its inside he holds superior inside fighters, just like kell Brook and BH. Its easy to do and should be illegal.
Boxing is about punching. Not wrestling like Floyd does, but accuses others of doing.

[Pugilist95]

Floyds not a great fighter. He runs most of the time and when its inside he holds superior inside fighters, just like kell Brook and BH. Its easy to do and should be illegal.
Boxing is about punching. Not wrestling like Floyd does, but accuses others of doing.

This post alone tells me that you haven't been watching boxing for very long. You're basically saying, Floyd is not a great fighter because he didn't fight Maidana's fight.

[Bird1]

A more convincing win than the first one but I wasn't impressed either. I agree with Mayweather saying he gives his performance a C-.

At the end of the second round I thought Mayweather would be more offensive and really try to hurt Maidana, but none of that happened. He stepped it up at occasions with some nice combinations but all he did tonight was just enough to win most of the rounds.

He seemed to respect Maidanas power a lot more this time, really avoiding all kind of exchanges. He was hurt just at the bell of the third round, a rare moment where Maidana timed him perfectly. That was a good shot.

I also think that Mayweather is not as accurate as before (I know his punch stats are still ridiculous landing at a very high percentage). But to me it seems every time he wants to land something big besides those lead right hands he misses a lot. A younger Mayweather would have punished the body of Maidana much more than he did tonight.

He's still a very good fighter but taking a break now for more than half a year and returning in May when he's 38 years old against a young hungry fighter could be disastrous.

[WarMaidana]

Because the two don't necessarily go hand in hand. He dominated the fight as a whole but he wasn't dominating. The same way Manny had an unimpressive dominant win over Clottey, the same way Broner had an unimpressive dominant win over Molina, the same way Josesito won a shutout the other night but was completely unimpressive. There are plenty of examples. I don't like Floyd but I NEVER downplay his talent, he impresses me almost everytime he is in the ring. Tonight I thought was his worst performance I've ever watched. I was even more impressed at his resiliency and ability to adapt in the much harder fight vs Maidana. This fight was just running (yes most of that way not just using his legs, that was flat out running) and clinching and having Bayless being overly generous toward him. I was far from impressed in this one.

spot on man

[12TRIBEsRiSe]

Floyds not a great fighter. He runs most of the time and when its inside he holds superior inside fighters, just like kell Brook and BH. Its easy to do and should be illegal.
Boxing is about punching. Not wrestling like Floyd does, but accuses others of doing.

i thought a part of boxing was taking your opponents strengths away and forcing them to fight the fight you want them to and not the fight they intend to fight... and clinching is a part of boxing, yes it was a little excessive but if the ref allowed it, it is what it is... floyd is aging but still a great fighter i think maidanas style is a very hard one to deal with, as long as he has garcia as a trainer he will be a problem for any WW

[Dinamita 03]

Like most people on this website, full of excuses. Get over it, move on. Maidana was dominated, not much more to say than that. Intead of saying how "unimpressive" the guy that won 10 rounds was, look at how pathetic your boy was.

Nothing wrong with breaking down the fight, at the end of the day that's why we're all here to talk boxing. The fact of the matter is Mayweather dominated the rounds but was anything but dominant or impressive last night.

[sicko]

Further Proof that this ERA of boxing is ****

A ERA in which fighters can't cut the ring off and don't have a clue how to deal with clinches and fighting inside, yes Kenny broke too soon but if he doesn't break people would still complain

Fighters need to learn how to fight and learn how to make adjustments, try to be more of a COMPLETE FIGHTER instead of just doing the same **** OVER AND OVER regardless if it doesn't work or not

Rematch should have NEVER HAPPENED, Mayweather was able to get himself a easy fight by taking a rematch to fulfill his Showtime Contract. Who are these fans that wanted a Maidana vs Mayweather Rematch?

[FrankieBruno]

cry baby maidana stans

[sugarsmosley]

maidana fought an awful fight and still won some rounds


literally it looked like the old ****ty maidana in there

[STEELHEAD]

maidana was dominated so much that the judges felt sorry for him and gifted him rounds.
i had him winning two rounds