Lara had an interesting rivalry with another kazakh fighter in the amateurs - Bakhyt Sa'rsekbayev. Some stats: - Chemie Pokal - Halle, Germany - April 14-16th 2005 Bakhyt Sa'rsekbayev (KZK) - Erislandy Lara (CUB) 26:21 - World Cup - Moscow, Russia - July 12-17 2005 Erislandy Lara (CUB) - Bakhyt Sa'rsekbayev (KZK) 39:22 - 2006 President's Cup in Astana, Kazakhstan Bakhyt Sa'rsekbayev (KZK) - Erislandy Lara (CUB) 26:21 - Ahmet Comert Tournament - Istanbul, Turkey - May 9-13 2007 Bakhyt Sa'rsekbayev (KZK) - Erislandy Lara (CUB) 20:11 They fought four times and Lara won only once.
GGG by KO. I think Lara may have some success on the outside. But GGG absolutely brutalizes Lara within 10 rounds. Similar to Ouma cept Lara's skills keep him alive as Ouma's heart got him to the end of the fight(or alledged PEDs...).
GiGi is the slowest fighter under 200+. any defensively savvy fighter would beat him IMO. I think b-hop beats him and i think lara can beat him if he doesn't get caught
Golovkin has not faced someone that is in and out with the countering like Lara. Lara simply wont be there. Lara counters beautifully in the fight but moves too much and loses a decision. He then swears he was robbed.
With the pedigree GGG has, your statement is simply untrue: GGG has got 350 fights in the ams and has faced "someone that is in and out with countering like Lara" like every other fight.
Pretty much. He's seen everything in the amateurs. People forgot he fought and beat Dirrell in the amateurs.
Abel Sanchez originally said "we will fight anyone from 154 to 168." Then he changed it to "Anyone from 154 to 175". I didn't say it, he did. Besides, if the man is as popular as they keep saying he is, he does not NEED a PPV draw, he IS a PPV draw.
Lara would get hurt bad. Like "I gotta take time off and contemplate my future" type bad. That's why Lara is going after K9 instead of moving to 160 and doing what he needs to do to get this fight he supposedly wants. You people need to understand this and stop looking foolish.
Lara is extremely susceptible to the left hook by the way he likes to spin out to his right with his hands down. *see Angulo fight* GGG would catch him and it would be all over.
Why is the statement that GGGs open to offers from anyone between 154 and 168 taken to mean that he should just drop whatever he's doing whenever anyone mentions his name on twitter. Anyone with a modicum of common sense would automatically assume the unnecessary qualification that any such fight would have to make sense from GGGs point of view. Furthermore, Golovkins circumstances have changed significantly from when he was relatively poorly known in the US and trying to drum up fights and build some kinda name fighting guys like Proksa and Rosado - which was the context in which that statement was made. Besides which it was always explained that fighting at 154 or 168 would always only have been for 'big (money)' fights. I wouldn't mind seeing Lara fight Golovkin, but as a career JMW Lara does nothing for Golovkins MW credibility, he has no belt and isn't much of a draw - when Lara achieves something at MW he could probably make a legitimate challenger, but right now, with Golovkin potentially able to unify 3 of the 4 belts at 160 in 2015, Lara can't be high up their shopping list.
:roll: I love how you people re-write history. Lara has called out Gennady on 2 separate occasions to which Golovkin's team has played the risk/reward card. In lay terms, they want no parts of Erislandy. True story.
