Marcos Maidana loses 40 pounds and prepares to return

As was previously announced Marcos Maidana (35-5, 31 KOs) is preparing for a ring return, this time only for a demonstration fight. But the Argentinian puncher has a serious attitude to training, and his return to the real performances with the best opponents is becoming more real.

"El Chino" has agreed to fight another Argentinian star the kickboxer Jorge "Acero" Kalima. Their meeting is scheduled for five rounds in 187 pounds. The bout, scheduled for April 18 in Buenos Aires is the exhibition one, but Maidana took it seriously and have already lost 40 pounds.

"I want to know to what weight I can go down, and then we will look for a suitable opponent. I never chose opponents, I took all they offered me, but this time I will be going back, and I will choose my opponents," said Maidana in late January and that he eventually believes in his return to the super welterweights. In the past Maidana was a world champion in two divisions lighter, welterweights and super lightweight. The last time Maidana fought in September 2014, when he lost on points in the rematch against Floyd Mayweather Jr.