Marcos Maidana - I've crossed Paths With Lions

Maidana will give it his best shot to beat Floyd Mayweather at The MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Showtime Pay Per View, hoping to follow up December's unanimous decision over Adrien Broner, whom he floored twice, for the WBA title. Maidana said, "I know he is the favorite, but I don't care. I've crossed paths with lions. I keep going forward and leave it in God's hands. If he wants to win, he'll have to kill me first."



"I guess that it's true about those who have tried to come forward against Floyd. But the fact is that Floyd never has faced a fighter with the power and the heart and the determination of Maidaina, who is one of those guys who is not worried about who is front of him. He's not worried about fighting the best fighter in the world, or the best fighter in history," said Maidana's trainer, Robert Garcia.



"He's not worried about anything. He gets ready to fight and to do what he does best, and he'll do that against anybody. He goes out there to try to hurt his opponent, and that's what he's training to do. He throws punches from different angles and has tremendous power in both hands. There's no secret to that. He has no respect for whoever is in front of him. He's not thinking about it. He feels like he can beat him and anybody else in history that's in the ring in front of him."



If Maidana has any hope of beating Mayweather (45-0, 26 KO), he almost certainly will have to knock him out. I just can't imagine a scenario where Maidana outpoints Mayweather over 12 rounds and doesn't stop him. The general belief, I think, is that it will be hard for Marcos to even get to Floyd, let alone batter him with body shots, but he's got to do something, and that sounds like as good an idea as anyway.

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