marcos MX gloves goes from the factory to the commission, for 3 years it was the process, was floyd paranoid or just playin game?

just floyd trying to get in the Maidana's head

The pair of gloves Maidana wanted to use in their first fight was a custom-made one as that being used and allowed to use by Gennady Golovkin. It was not the regular type that is produced by factories and tested and approved by the commissions.

In insisting that he be allowed to use that custom-made pair of gloves, Maidana was seen by the Floyd camp as trying to psyche out Floyd by making terms and conditions that are way off his status to dictate or demand.

Floyd made him pay by threatening to pull out if the custom-made pair of gloves was allowed to be used in the fight and having re-established and re-imposed himself as the one who had the bigger say on things in that bout, he made it even harder for the poor chap to have an easy, quick option of what regular pair of gloves to pick for use in the fight.

Maidana had wanted to psyche Floyd out but in the end it was Maidana who lost the mind games.

To Maidana;s credit, he was so riled up that it became his rallying point in almost upsetting Floyd in that fight which necessitated this rematch. He did not lose entirely in that episode unlike the others Floyd sent whimpering.