erislandy lara: the uncrowned superstar

Lara = boring

 

then, don't watch his fights, dummy

just like i don't watch wlad because i think he's boring.

 

Canelo is one of the best we have right now. Paul Williams was one of the best when Lara beat him too. How many fighters do we have who can give up the kind of reach, height, and weight Lara gave to Williams and do what he did with him? The list is short. Pac vs Margarito and De La Hoya, May vs Alvarez or Corrales, Martinez vs Williams, Rigondeaux vs Asagawa, and that's about it.

Search your mind for our top elite level guys right now. Klitschko, Golovkin, Froch, Marquez, Kovalev never did that, never beat a bigger man. Honestly, Golovkin doesn't have any name on his resume as good as Alvarez, but people concede that he's elite.

One last thing, in 2004 when Marquez first fought Pacquiao, he was the same age as Lara and his record was no more impressive. If Lara sticks around as long as Marquez, he should have a few impressive things to show us.

 

I bet you're not black. Korean would be my guess. One of those american west coast Koreans who really thinks he was meant to be black.

 

i don't get all the criticism of this guy. are you saying that he has to be 10 times as good as everybody else in order to get the same level of respect?

ok, so maybe he was overly cautious against canelo...but a lotta top fighters have made much worse tactical errors....look at canelo-fmj. look at ortiz-fmj. look at dlh-trinidad. you saying dlh was not elite? l

lara has one performance which he WON but didn't look spectacular and that precludes him from being brilliant? ...the guy has 24 fights and he has fought pretty much all the top guys at jmw....and he really should have an undefeated record except for the corruption and blatant bias in the sport.

if i was his promoter, i would market him as the modern day srr...i would get him to learn english and exploit his cross-over appeal with american audiences... completely change the public perception of him.

 

Lara has a glass heart and a glass chin.

He left his sack in the dressing room before he 'fought' (ran) Canelo. He's a disgrace to prize fighting.

 

That's cold.

 

Hes already a legend in track and field

 

Lara lost me as a fan in that Canelo fight.

He got the shot of a lifetime and he fights like that?

He deserved to lose for running so much.

I even picked him to win

 

I dont want to see Lara fight again, just look at his awful performance vs Canelo.

Throwing a pawing jab and the occasional left hand is not going to win you the fight.

Lara sucks

 

I think the key reason we disagree is that I do believe that Canelo is a very good, although not quite top ten fighter right now. He probably deserves to be around top twenty. He's somewhat overrated, but the kid is 24 and has already had 8 title fights. That's special.

I see you not rating Canelo for the same reason I don't rate Bradley. He got dominated by Pacquiao and had a very close fight with Provodnikov, who is a C class fighter. I rank Bradley around top twenty the same as Canelo, but I can definitely see some skills and recognize a few of his accomplishments.

To my eyes, it looked like Lara could dominate Canelo, but he underperformed to narrowly beat him. I get why some people think Canelo beat Lara, because Lara deserved to lose the way he fought, like De La Hoya vs Trinidad. It was a little disgraceful and sickening how little he engaged, and at a certain point you want to give rounds to the more entertaining fighter who's showing aggression and pushing the fight. I was just really impressed with that boring fight anyway because he made Canelo a good fighter look like nothing. If Lara threw just a few more punches, which he's totally capable of doing, there's no reason he couldn't be where Andre Ward and Guillermo Rigondeaux are... inactive and off basic cable. Lol, but elite.

 

That's a very dismissive and extremely biased paragraph.

Some people automatically assume that the more skilled boxer is the better fighter, which is not always the case.

You're simply giving Lara all the credit by implying that the reason he he did not live up to your expectations was because he "underperformed" and dismiss anything Canelo did by, again, simply implying that all he did was be the agressor. BS.

Lara performed beautifully for the first couple of rounds but by the third he was already feeling Canelo's power and that's the reason he started running and did his best to avoid any exchanges for the rest of the fight. The reason Canelo was able to hurt Lara early was because
he was faster and better than Lara expected.

And this does not compare to the DLH/Tito fight. DLH only ran in the championship rounds, Lara ran for the greater part of the fight.

You can fool yourself into thinking that Lara could have won this fight
if he wanted to but in order to do that he would have to box like he did the for first 3 rds and for that he would have taken a lot more punishment from Canelo. Might have even been stopped.

The crux of all this, the better skilled boxer is not always the better fighter. In this case, Canelo was the better man that night.