Was Marcos Maidana One of Mayweather Hardest Fight? Or THEE Hardest Fight?

[IronDanHamza]

Definitely Maidana 1 or Castillo.

The only fights Floyd arguably lost in his career.

But Maidana dished out more punishment against Floyd than Castillo.

Maidana just had no respect for Floyd, and wasn't afraid to get dirty and most importantly didn't care that he's was across the ring from Mayweather beforehand which a lot of fighters defeat themselves by doing.

One of the main reasons I gave Maidana a good chance to win.

[hugh grant]

Maidana is the only one who had the cheek to say he ruined floyd. So maybe maidana knows something we don't?

Maybe after that fight Floyd was wondering if boxing was the sport for him

[JWHardin]

In Maidana 1 Weeks didn't do his job. Maidana got away with low blows, arm twisting, tried to knee Floyd, hit on the back of the head, and yes a double leg takedown. Anyone that knows boxing could see that Maidana should have at least been penalized, if not DQ'd. It was one of the dirtiest performances I have seen since Tyson biting Holyfields ear. (in the 2nd fight Maidana even bit Floyd) Tons of people hate Floyd, but the idiots that love Maidana for those tactics are complete idiots.

Floyd said before the fight he would stand toe to toe, and did. It was closer than it should have been because of all the fouls. In the second fight Floyd said it would be different, and it was. He clowned Maidana, and had a ref that wouldn't put up with the constant fouls.

Roughest fight, but not closest.

[Johnny2x2x]

Madaina won more rounds than Castillo although the rounds Castillo won were more decisive. Floyd had a dislocated shoulder and had built up a big lead in rounds win vs Castillo, he was just trying to get through a couple of the later rounds. Madaina bullied Mayweather and won 5 rounds IMO.

[Lester Tutor]

37 year old Floyd vs 30 year old Chino, yup, definitely the same thing as a Castillo reference.

the only thing in Chino's mind from those fights has been, ''dang dude got a chin! I'm a quit!''

[FlatLine]

Khan beat Maidana much easier than Floyd did, some people thought Floyd lost to Marcos but no one in their right mind thought that about the Khan fight. And that's when Marcos was fresh and still had his heart in the game, not the old, battleworn version that Floyd fought who had thought about retiring several times in the past and heart wasn't in it no more.

Now you see why Floyd ducked Khan to fight Maidana. If he's going life and death with Maidana, he would have lost to Khan and he knew it. No question at this point.

[AllEyesOpen]

Khan beat Maidana much easier than Floyd did, some people thought Floyd lost to Marcos but no one in their right mind thought that about the Khan fight. And that's when Marcos was fresh and still had his heart in the game, not the old, battleworn version that Floyd fought who had thought about retiring several times in the past and heart wasn't in it no more.

Now you see why Floyd ducked Khan to fight Maidana. If he's going life and death with Maidana, he would have lost to Khan and he knew it. No question at this point.

This logic makes no sense, if you know anything about boxing you know styles make fights and Maidana's style will always give Mayweather problems.

By your logic Mayorga should have beat Mosley cause he beat Forrest twice who beat Mosley twice.

[DARKSEID]

1. Castillo
2. Maidana

[-PBP-]

Castillo outhustled him. Maidana physically punished him.

[FlatLine]

This logic makes no sense, if you know anything about boxing you know styles make fights and Maidana's style will always give Mayweather problems.

By your logic Mayorga should have beat Mosley cause he beat Forrest twice who beat Mosley twice.

Maidana is a come forward plodder, he's just better at that style than most of the come-forward plodders Mayweather faced before.

Khan's style gives Mayweather even more problems then Maidana did, that's the whole point. Maidana's simplistic style created a lot of problems for Floyd as it is. He wouldn't have been able to deal with Khan's style if he had that much trouble with Maidana.