Maidana will get the Floyd fight or defend vs Paulie. Thurman is too dangerous for little reward at the moment. he is a KO waiting to happen but the problem is that his size and power at WW is scary and you could be the KO victim yourself more than likely.
You gotta feel for these action fighters like Maidana. Due to their style people always want them matched up against other big punchers, they got it tough lol Respect
An excellent fight on many levels. It would be a real aggressive challenge to take by Maidana, and I always like that. It'd also be a real barometer test for Thurman to see where he is. It seems in line with the natural progression, and offers Thurman a tough, tough opponent on which to test his mettle. I dig it.
I can understand why he declined/ducked or whatever you want to call it. He had just lost vs Devon and was asked to fight a man who's last few fights were at 154 when Maidana at the time wasn't even sure if he was staying at 147. Thurman had also never been on TV before so it was a high risk, low reward type of fight where even if Maidana won he wouldn't get much credit. Maidana would have only got 120K, he declined and a took a fight on the Canelo under card for 250K and vs a fighter more suited to his style and easier for a comeback fight in fighting Karras. that win made him the WBA WW number one contender (title shot went to broner instead) and got him a TV Main event and 450K vs Lopez, then of course the Broner fight which he won for the WW title plus 800K. Seems like Maidana and his team made the right choice. he would fight him now though at some point because Thurman has a name after his last 4 TV fights and has earned it as well. Maidana wants Floyd though like everybody else does and you can't blame him.
The Broner win on paper gave/gives Maidana a "bigger fish ticket" than Thurman. (Would be a downgrade $$$ wise for "Chino")