RingTV.com: What can you do with him? RG: Well, you know, he's always given us great fights. I think that he's got tremendous power and tremendous heart. So, those are two things that you can not teach. But once a fighter already has those things, the rest can be easy. The rest is things like, you know, one thing that I can do is get him to move his head more. Use his hands more and things like that. I can work on his balance and things like that. His footwork. He's got really bad footwork. Sometimes, he's just swinging wildly. So those are things that I believe that I can correct. But just with him already having those two qualities, you know, the power and the heart, those are things that made him a world champion. Read more: http://ringtv.craveonline.com/blog/172233-qaa-trainer-garcia-takes-on-maidana-discusses-rios-pavlik
Cool stuff. Maidana will always be a slugger at heart, but he's shown the capacity to improve in the past, and there's no reason why he can't pick up a few things.
Yea defense and a good jab would help Maidana. Needs to throw a wider variety of punches instead of all of them being telegraphed thats why a good strong jab followed by a short right hook, upper, etc would be very beneficial to him.
