Marcos Maidana Tickets

Marcos Maidana is scheduled to fight Devon Alexander (22-1-0, 13 KOs) in a 12-round welterweight fight on Saturday, February 25, 2012 at the Scottrade Center in St Louis, Missouri. Maidana is taking a huge risk fighting Alexander in St Louis because its Alexander's hometown. Two of Alexander's recent wins against Lucas Matthysse and Andriy Kotelnik took place in St Charles, a suburb of St Louis and St Louis were highly controversial and considered hometown decisions. In order for Maidana to win in St Louis he is going to have to knock Alexander out cold. Additionally the fight is taking place at welterweight. Maidana usually fights at light welterweight so lets hope that he is able to bring his well known power with him to the heavier weight class.

Marcos "El Chino" Maidana

(31-2-0, 28 KOs)

Marcos Rene Maidana born in Argentina had a successful amateur career winning the 2002 and 2003 Argentine National Championships and becoming the 2003 World Championships quarter finalist.

Maidana turned pro on June 12, 2004 in Argentina beating his first opponent Adan Basilio Mironchik by 1st round knockout. He went on fighting in Argentina, Panama and Germany winning all his fights becoming 25-0 with 24 KOs until February 7, 2009.

In his first title shot on February 7, 2009 in Stadthalle, Germany, Maidana lost a close 12-round split decision to WBA World light welterweight champion Andriy Kotelnik (31-2-1, 13 KOs). Scores were 115-113, 114-115 and 113-115. Kotelnik, a very disciplined fighter with good defense who takes a punch well was able to withstand Maidana's power.

Coming off his loss to Kotelnik, Marcos Maidana beat "Vicious" Victor Ortiz (24-2-1, 19 KOs) by 6th round TKO in an interim WBA World light welterweight title fight on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Maidana had down once in round one, twice in round two and Ortiz was down once in round one and once in round six. After Ortiz was knocked down in round six he basically quit. Bleeding from a cut over his right eye and having a swollen left he got up and walked over to the ring doctor looking for a way out and doctor obliged recommending that the fight be stopped. Ortiz just couldn't take Maidana's relentlessness and his punches which are known to be the hardest in the 140 lb division.

Maidana went on to win interim WBA World light welterweight title fights against William Gonzalez (22-6-1, 7 KOs) by 3rd KO on November 21, 2009 in Argentina and Victor Manuel Cayo (24-1-0, 16 KOs) by 6th round TKO in Las Vegas, Nevada.

On Saturday, August 28, 2010 at the Estadio Luna Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Maidana beat former WBO light welterweight champion DeMarcus "Chop Chop" Corley (37-14-1, 22 KOs) by 12-round unanimous decision in an interim WBA World light welterweight title fight. Scores were 117-110, 117-110 and 115-112. The fight was closer than the scorecards looked. Corley was game, the two traded heavy punches in the early and late rounds. Corley was down in round eight.

In his second title shot on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada, Maidana lost by 12-round unanimous decision to Amir Khan (24-1-0, 17 KOs) in a WBA World light welterweight title fight. Scores were 112-113, 111-114 and 111-114. Maidana was down in round one. Lost a point for throwing an elbow in round five. Maidana finished strong hurting Khan bad in round ten wobbling him but Khan managed to survive and won the bout having build up an early lead.

Marcos Maidana beat Erik Morales (51-7-0, 35 KOs) by 12-round majority decision in an interim WBA World light welterweight title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, April 9, 2011. Scores were 116-112, 116-112 and 114-114. It was a close fight with Maidana struggling to survive. Maidana was the aggressor and the busier fighter but Morales threw the more accurate punches and landed at a higher percentage rate. In round one an uppercut from Maidana swelled Morales's right eye shut forcing him to fight the entire bout only able to see out of one eye. Maidana won the early rounds and the last two but from the 5th to the 10th rounds Morales had Maidana in serious trouble, hurting him with right hands and uppercuts, snapping his head back, wobbling him. When the scores were announced the crowd booed the decision. Many ringside also felt that Morales deserved the nod or at the very least the fight should have been a draw.

Maidana defeated Russian Petr Petrov (29-3-2, 13 KOs) by 4th round KO in a WBA World light welterweight title fight at Sociedad Alemana in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Friday, September 23, 2011. In a one side rout Maidana knocked down Petrov twice in round four. Petrov held for most of the fight in order to survive. Maidana was supposed to fight Robert Guerrero but Guerrero suffered a torn rotator cuff requiring surgery and had to pull out of their scheduled bout so Maidana took the fight against Petrov not wanting to waste his training camp.

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