Date February 25, 2012 Alexander The Great El Chino 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | Title(s) on the line None 22-1-0 (13 KO) 31-2-0 (28 KO) | |
Venue Scottrade Center in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States | ||
Devon Alexander vs. Marcos Maidana, was a Boxing Welterweight super-fight. The bout was held on February 25, 2012, at the Scottrade Center in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
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The fight was televised live on HBO's Boxing After Dark.
They shared a common opponent in southpaw Demarcus Corley, against whom Alexander scored a unanimous decision victory in January 2008, while Maidana did the same in August 2010, knocking him out in the eighth round in early 2011.
Drug Testing
Alexander and Maidana were tested "before and after the bout to include both illegal drugs and steroids" when they clashed as welterweights on February 25 at the Scottrade Center, the state's commission director told RingTV.com.
Tim Lueckenhoff, executive director of Missouri Office of Athletics, said that the move was being made in response to accusations by Maidana's advisor, Sebastian Contursi, that Alexander has been using performance enhancing drugs.
Contrusi denies that he directly accused Alexander of using performance-enhancing drugs, or specifically named the St. Louis native in voicing his concerns (through an email) to the Missouri commission.
Lueckenhoff said otherwise.
Alexander
Alexander climbed into the welterweight division after struggling to make weight against Andriy Kotelnik, WBO junior welterweight beltholder Timothy Bradley and Lucas Matthysse.
Alexander won a disputed decision over Kotelnik in August 2010, lost his WBC title following an 11th-round, technical decision loss to Bradley in January 2011, but bounced back with the disputed decision over Matthysse.
Maidana
Maidana suffered the first loss of his career via controversial split-decision to Andriy Kotelnik in February 2009. His only other loss was a unanimous decision against Amir Khan in December 2010, in which Maidana had to rise from a first-round knockdown.
Beyond those two losses, though, Maidana has notched some significant wins.
In June 2009, following the Kotelnik fight, he fought back from three knockdowns to hammer Victor Ortiz into submission in the sixth, derailing the young junior welterweight's upward momentum in front of an HBO audience.
In April 2011, Maidana edged Erik Morales by majority decision in a bout that many believed Morales won.
Coming into the fight, Maidana was coming off fourth-round knockout of Petr Petrov in September 2011, his second straight win at the time.