I beg to differ. A lot of people were thinking that including some of us here in this thread. We were saying that Broner should do a return match straight away...then we heard initially there was no rematch clause.
I didnt see that Maidana was clearly the better fighter overall. He was the better WW that night and the better prepared. He bum-rushed Broner and he didnt know what to do. His style of defense also showed that he is gonna get knocked out by a better fighter. He cant just say "I am rematching Maidana" no. He has to be in excellent shape. Something he wasnt because we saw fatboy pics too close to fighting time. He has to make some adjustments and get some great sparring. He needs to seek technical advise. He has some work to do if he wants to pull this off. I do think he can do it though. @
SuikodenII you my dude. so you tell me....Mares got blasted by Gonzalez, yet people here are picking Mares to win the rematch. Broner went 12 with Maidana and had his moments. After he warmed up he took Maidana's shots a lot better. Why are we getting lambasted here for thinking Broner can turn this around...yet I dont here people getting it when saying Mares is gonna win a rematch....which I dont think he will. Gonzalez has his number clearly I believe and right now at this moment, I think is the superior fighter given the style matchup.
Mares is younger, on the way up while Jhonny is looked at as more shop-worn, looking for a couple good fights and be out.
Also, Jhonny has an incredible history of being up in fights then getting KO'd. Israel Vazquez, Gerry Penalosa, Toshiaki Nishioka. 3 fights he was winning HANDILY. So people believe that if Mares could get past the early onslaught, he'd have a great chance at stopping Jhonny later on. Add on to the fact that Jhonny is desperately trying to move to 130, making 126 is hard for him at the moment. Mares is a mauler, and Jhonny couldn't take his shots if he wanted to, that's just hard-nosed fact.
HOWEVER, and this is something me and you will never see eye-to-eye on, the nature of the trainer. Clemente Medina is a great trainer in his own right, and he's had a lot of success with Mares, but Ignacio "Nacho" Beristain trains Jhonny and
had trained Mares in the past. Nacho is one of the best trainers in the game right now and probably of all time, he studies each and every opponent and is usually dead on when discussing a fighter. He knew what Mares could and couldn't do and he's been with Jhonny for almost 5 years now (though he did work with him in the past, his father was always his head trainer). Beristain predicted Mares wouldn't last 6 rounds and guess what
1. He fought at Jhonny's distance, Mares needs to be right in Jhonny's chest and back him up. Duck low, lead overhand right, and be quick with it, he has the physical tools to pull that off at least.
2. After the 1st knockdown, instead of holding till the bell rings, he fights back, bad move. That Mexican machismo
#2 can be corrected as long as he's smart enough to do so, #1 is a game plan error though whether it was too early to say he wasn't going to start applying pressure starting with round 2 remains to be seen.....
