By Lyle Fitzsimmons - A few Tuesday morning musings after a big-fight weekend.
I realize a lot of folks aren’t big fans of Floyd Mayweather Jr. And there’s no doubt that “Money” has given said folks plenty of reasons over the years to feel the way they do.
But there’s a difference between having a rooting interest… and simply being an idiot.
Mixed in with the typical post-fight hilarity in the Twitter-verse on Saturday night were occasional snipes – whether intended to blast the scoring, or the lack of sustained action – lamenting that Lara fought Canelo the same way that Mayweather had when he won the PPV record-breaker last September.
And each time I saw them, my cyber-trained mind screamed one thing:
STFU.
At most, it takes about five seconds of observation to see that while both opponents clearly frustrated the Mexican to no end, the ways in which Mayweather and Lara did so were drastically different.
Mayweather, in nearly every round, stood straight in front of Alvarez and fully within punching range, but continually bedeviled him by rolling his shoulder and blocking most of the shots that came his way.
Lara, meanwhile, spent much of his 36 minutes with Canelo on the move, stopping long enough to fire off quick jabs and snapping straight lefts before getting back on the bike to offset any incoming replies.
