you guys know my opinion on Lara Vs. GGG, i don't think it is a competitive fight but many seem to call for it... so whatever make it happen.
This is funny though. GGG tweets about a tourney that WBC suggested... Lara says that he is cherry picking and should fight the best rather then a hand picked tournament... lol how can GGG hand pick a winner of a tournament that's just too funny. Anyways hope the Lara fight happens so that this annoyance goes away.
@GGGBoxing I think you are a 🍒🍒🍒 picker! Fight the best not some hand picked tournament! 💯
Useless manager pretending to be Lara.
Reminds of Leo Santa Cruz confronting Rigo in a parking lot about his tweets. Rigo admitted he was not the one writing them.
Anyone still have a link of that clip?
you just said Lara was trolling? Apparently Monroe Jr. or Wade justified competitiveness in comparison to Lara, nor do boxers ever move up in weight to challenge themselves..
This is Lara we're talking about innit?
Wade and Monroe jr Purses -> 250k, 500k. Fights on regular TV.
How much does Lara want? that's the question.
If GGG fights an uber driver yet again instead of fighting Lara who is a great technical boxer and would be a way better fight then Geale, Monroe, Wade, and is the only fighter actively and constantly calling him out then their whole team is *****.
The tourney is just another form of built in mandatory excuse, tourney would not have any quality names in there. The only name I could see signing up would be Eubank jr and winning it after two fights would NOT make him ready or competitive against GGG.
I agree the tournament idea is stupid. How is it any different from the typical title eliminators? The WBC just wants to collect sanctioning fees from title eliminators from other organizations.
Whats wrong with that? Isnt boxing a business?
since neither Lara nor GGG run their own twitter pages, the "trolling" is being done by Decubis and whoever at K2 runs GGGs page......
yeah i know but the people who run the twitters are an extension of the fighters.... but you are right it isn't actually Lara... likely Dacubas and Loefller going at it.
Make it happen, then we can all laugh at a Round 1 re-run of this and the dumb people who said Lara was gonna do anything.
http://www.theboxingobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Erislandy-Lara-Austin-Trout-Sakio-Bika-Anthony-Dirrell-1024x640.jpg
Lara's trolling Canelo too now.
We don't **** around! #TeamLara @Canelo pic.twitter.com/XCqHhy9StO— Erislandy Lara (@Laraboxing) May 25, 2016
i saw that too... but everyone is trolling Canelo now so didn't think much of it lol.
We'll see. Monroe won a tournament on ESPN and it gave him exposure and he landed the GGG fight but people gave Golovkin 0 credit for that W.
True, but as far as i know that tournament didn't have any high ranked fighters. I am simply referring to a tournament between top 10 ranked fighters or close to it.
Also can you imagine if GGG has to defend vs. every organizations mandatory every year... we will get too many unwanted fights... so a tourney would be good to determine one mandatory (if they decide to do that) each year.
I don't have a problem with the idea of a mw tournament but that sh1t will take time. If Jacobs and Saunders decline to fight as they have indicated up to this point, Lara is a good next opponent.
'Fight the best'... says the guy with a 23-2-2 record lol.
Lara is still undefeated on my scorecard. He scored his fights with Molina and Canelo draws, but he's beaten everybody else.
Let's put the Williams fight into perspective. Sergio Martinez softened him up with a devastating KO in the 2nd round. Lara fought him 8 months later and went 12 rounds with a guy Sergio destroyed, and I'll give you that he probably should have been awarded the decision. But that wasn't the best Paul Williams...
He also went to a draw with a journeyman in Carlos Molina. A fight many thought he should have lost.
So we have him basically 'beating' shot fighters, journeymen(Austin Trout) and getting draws with journeymen(Carlos Molina).
Doesn't that make Lara a journeyman also?
If Trout is a journeyman the GGG is fighting garbage men
you guys know my opinion on Lara Vs. GGG, i don't think it is a competitive fight but many seem to call for it... so whatever make it happen.
This is funny though. GGG tweets about a tourney that WBC suggested... Lara says that he is cherry picking and should fight the best rather then a hand picked tournament... lol how can GGG hand pick a winner of a tournament that's just too funny. Anyways hope the Lara fight happens so that this annoyance goes away.
@GGGBoxing I think you are a 🍒🍒🍒 picker! Fight the best not some hand picked tournament! 💯— Erislandy Lara (@Laraboxing) May 25, 2016
GGG gonna take him up on his offer....I hope he doesn't try to back out once an offer is on the table.
Considering that Lara is ranked as the #1 super welterweight in the world by The Ring, ESPN, TBRB, BoxRec and virtually every other credible sources....yeah, he has a pretty good claim to be the best in his division.
He's no.1 by default. Andrade derailed his career and has been inactive. Canelo left the division. He's no.1 because of what? Because he beat Vanes and Trout? Andrade beat Vanes way easier than Lara did. Trout has about 3 L's on his record now and seems to be living off that Cotto victory.
Lara's worth will be examined when he faces other top fighters in his weight class. Like Andrade, Charlo's, J-Rock etc.
Let's put the Williams fight into perspective. Sergio Martinez softened him up with a devastating KO in the 2nd round. Lara fought him 8 months later and went 12 rounds with a guy Sergio destroyed, and I'll give you that he probably should have been awarded the decision. But that wasn't the best Paul Williams...
He also went to a draw with a journeyman in Carlos Molina. A fight many thought he should have lost.
So we have him basically 'beating' shot fighters, journeymen(Austin Trout) and getting draws with journeymen(Carlos Molina).
Doesn't that make Lara a journeyman also?
Excuses excuses . Try watching the sport son. Its a great sport to watch.
And while you are at it now list these great elites that GGG beat in preserving his 0
Wow 2 losses, and very VERY controversial ones at that, is the end for fighters these days. And then some of you cry about the importance of the "0"
anyway the "best" at 154 is daring to be great and wants to fight the "best" at 160 so yeah "best fighting the best" IMO
Let's put the Williams fight into perspective. Sergio Martinez softened him up with a devastating KO in the 2nd round. Lara fought him 8 months later and went 12 rounds with a guy Sergio destroyed, and I'll give you that he probably should have been awarded the decision. But that wasn't the best Paul Williams...
He also went to a draw with a journeyman in Carlos Molina. A fight many thought he should have lost.
So we have him basically 'beating' shot fighters, journeymen(Austin Trout) and getting draws with journeymen(Carlos Molina).
Doesn't that make Lara a journeyman also?