Maidana cannot stop Algieri even without the pillow gloves that Floyd forced upon him. So the only way for him to win is via decision. The problem here is Algieri would simply box his way and decision Maidana like what Alexander did or what a shot Morales did in some rounds.
There is nothing Provodnikov does better than Maidana. Quite close to literally nothing. Considering >50% of posters on this forum according to all the polls immediately after the Algieri/Provodnikov fight scored it for Prov, the answer should be quite obvious to even those who are blind and have never seen either Algieri or Maidana fight.
Algeri does not have the experience at world class level as Alexander, khan, mayweather or kotelnik at the elite level...or the speed of foot and hand of the first 3...also all of them are better punchers than algieri....maidana wins a Dec or late stoppage ...too rough underated jab and is better than he was years ago cutting off the ring