Marcos "El Chino" Maidana made his first fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. far more competitive than most expected in May, and now he's revealed in training that he plans on using a tactic against Mayweather that helped send Adrien Broner to the canvas in 2013.
Maidana's trainer Robert Garcia told Maidana in training, "Throw a lot of punches, but don't get so close so that you can throw the straight right hand. Get low so that he thinks you're going to throw low. Then, all of a sudden, you throw high."
Maidana used stiff jabs to Broner's midsection in Round 1 when they met in December 2013, and by Round 2 Maidana had fainted the jab to the body, and floored Broner with a hook that landed flush.
Mayweather is a master of defense, but that didn't stop Maidana from using relentless pressure to make the fight a hard one. Garcia appears to be trying to exercise that same pressure, but introduce more discipline.
"I'm not going to respect him. I'm going to go at him, and I want him to fight. Fight like a man. Stop crying like a little b***h and fight," Maidana said recently. "I'm going to do my job. I'm going to come to fight."
Maidana told Bleacher Report it was his skill, power and pressure that made for the close fight, not Mayweather's advancing age.
"I don't think age has anything to do with it. In the first fight, he stood and fought with me a little bit, but then he started boxing and moving at times. He's a good athlete. He's in shape. I think that it was his decision to stand and fight with me.
"This second fight I hope that he decides to stand and fight with me. To fight like a man. I hope he doesn't start running or trying to move away."
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