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“El Chino” Maidana feels confident about his chances against Floyd
Mayweather Jr. in their upcoming showdown on May 3 at the MGM Grand in
Las Vegas.
In an interview with BoxingScene on
Tuesday, Maidana admitted that beating Mayweather will be a gargantuan
task, but he believes he has the power to hurt the reigning
pound-for-pound king, and possibly score a knockout.
“We all know he’s a great champion but
I’m preparing well and every time I fight a good opponent and I catch
him with a good shot I hurt him and I could knock him out. With
Mayweather, I expect to catch him with a good shot and I feel I’m going
to hurt him too,” Maidana said.
Maidana, who will put his WBA
welterweight title on the line, will be a heavy underdog heading into
Fight Night, but the 30-year-old Argentinian is unfazed, saying that he
is used to being an underdog.
“Every time I come into a fight with a
good opponent, I’m always the underdog, I’m never the favorite. But that
doesn’t matter because I like to give surprises,” Maidana said.
Maidana is coming off an upset victory
over then-unbeaten Adrien Broner in their title showdown in December
last year. He was also a heavy underdog before the fight, but he managed
to defy the odds, knocking Broner down in rounds two and eight en route
to a unanimous decision win.
Boxing analysts believe that Mayweather
and Broner have similar fighting styles, but Maidana pointed out that
Mayweather is way better than Broner because of his speed and
experience.
“I think Mayweather is much faster,
walks the ring more and has more experience. They have a similar style
but it’s not the same thing,” Maidana said.
Maidana also insisted that Mayweather
made the right decision of fighting him instead of British boxing icon
Amir Khan, saying that a Mayweather vs Khan showdown would have been a
boring fight.
“I think Khan vs. Mayweather would be a
very boring fight,” Maidana said. “They are both boxers and neither of
them are going to attack, so that’s why I think it would be boring.”
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