Putting 7 feet between you and your opponent - Lara's "ring generalship"

he did very well early dodging that leaping right hand from canelo (that pissed me off because he just kept goin for it an it was well off target) but the body work slowed lara down in the mid to late rounds. he needed to throw more if he wanted this fight, outbox, get him frustrated like he did then hed throw a crisp 1-2 backing up and the left would land.. he would do this alot slowly back up and then strike forward like a mongoose with the 1-2, stun canelo then get out and it worked but hed only do it twice a round and then canelo would manage to get in some great body shots throughout the rest of the round so i found it hard to give alot to lara. i think if the rematch happends (and i dont think it will, canelo took a dangerous fight and no one can knock him for that but you only get 1 shot at the title and lara blew his by losing in very boring fashion. if it was a barn burner then hell why not but no one is going to purchase the rematch)

 

Lara was scared to engage,and was under whelming in the biggest opportunity of his career..You can't call that ring generalship unless you count skipping around.. He never controlled the tempo of the fight,unless you count Canelo chasing him all night.

 

If you're gonna use that much footwork, make sure of 2 things.

Make sure your offense is active when you stop.
And making sure you're making your opponent miss.

That wasn't ring generalship. He was still getting caught. Lara's defense isn't what people make it out to be.

 

yep noticed that straight away, rigo is the real professor of cuban boxing

 

True you can't compare Lara to Rigo. Rigo gets a lot of flack for being too defensive but he landed almost as many power punches in his last fight as Lara's total punches landed. Rigo can and will hurt you if given the opportunity while Lara last night made Canelo miss and refused to capitalise.

The distance Lara was looking to put between himself and Canelo was ridiculous. There were moments Canelo was actually jogging in the ring to make up the distance.

 

Only Carl Froch can knock this guy out, dude's uppercut comes from halfway of the ring..... No distance is safe from him when he's in the center.....

 

dead right,

 

Canelo will have to chase chickens around for training if he ever gives Lara a rematch

Lara doesn't deserve it though

 

Lara has to realize this isn't Cuban Boxing School, this is professional boxing. Nobody wants to watch you run and throw a couple of one, twos a round. You have to at least try to put some hurt on your opponent. I don't think he has anything to complain about, he had his chance and played it safe.

 

good post Skin. i would just replace your words Cuban Boxing School with Amatuer Boxing Scoring.

 

Thanks, I was going to put that but I didn't want to look up how to spell amatuer. Same thing. I don't think Lara really opened up once the entire fight. Even in the last round when he had to know the fight was up for grabs, he did nothing. You gotta sell tickets in this biz and people aren't going to pay big money to see a guy who fights like that. Well, at least I won't

 

lara's arm must be 9 ft long.

that dome got snapped over and over it was really funny.


drainelo had no answer. had he ever hit lara flush once?

his hooks mostly landed at the back or hip.

his shoe shining body shots mostly on lara's elbows.



drainelo vs. air, drainelo won no contest.:hi:

 

A-****ing-men.

Lara has no defense without his legs.

 

Lara never controlled the tempo of the fight as mentioned. Watch Algeri vs Ruslan for a beautiful example of ring generalship