Comments Thread For: Lara-Zerafa: WBA Re-Orders Long Overdue Mandatory Middleweight Title Fight

[richardt]

If all these boxers and managers and promoters were literally living paycheck to paycheck, we would not have these part time fighters. You just never heard of these things to the extent we have been hearing lately.......10-15 years or more ago.

[Boxing2695]

If all these boxers and managers and promoters were literally living paycheck to paycheck, we would not have these part time fighters. You just never heard of these things to the extent we have been hearing lately.......10-15 years or more ago.

Definitely. I'm all for fighters getting paid this is a hard gruelling sport so get you're money why you can but the fact these guys are being paid so much for gimmie fights and then sidelined for well over a year longer in some cases. It just slows the divisions down and they dont move because the middleweight historically has been a great division but atm it's in the wilderness with no real good fights out there to be made. But back in the day champions where fighting 10 round non title fights in-between title defenses because they had to keep fighting regularly to get paid.

[Bronx23]

It been a rough time to be a PBC fighter, so many guys sat on the shelf in 2023 & here we are in 2024 and no upcoming dates announced for the year. All we got was the announcement that they partnered with Amazon Prime. Starting to wonder if the deal fell thru. How do you announce a partnership with no dates

[garfios]

Ha..thanks for reminding me that 155 catchweight requested by Garcia, but still it was scheduled as one of Showtime's exit fights in December. Meaning, they all agreed to terms. Don't have idea why it got canceled.

Only thing I remember about Zerafa is his fight with Quillin, which was many years ago. (I'm not going to search on Google at this point just to make it more personal.) It was a total mismatch, Zerafa, if I remember correctly was taken on a stretcher, I might be wrong... So it wasn't a pleasant first impression of him...Then saw glimpses of his relatively recent 2 fights with Jeff Horn, which were competitive...

Thank you. They agreed on the weight and it was scheduled. What happened next, your guess is good as mine. But something needs to be done.

[DJrabit]

The key quote is below. Just strip for inactivity. It's bad enough having second rate/hasbeen fighters holding belts without them also being inactive with them.

He should not have signed to PBC

[DJrabit]

I don't think Lara was a 2nd rate fighter. I do agreed belts shouldn't be held hostage.

He won a championship by beating Canelo brother & Cornflakes that is definition of second rate fighter

[MulaKO]

Not fond of Zerafa but he’s been waiting way to long and it’s his turn
i’d tell them to fughoff with step aside money at this point if he wants his shot
Which Lara will show up is more my concern ?

[tomhawq]

Thank you. They agreed on the weight and it was scheduled. What happened next, your guess is good as mine. But something needs to be done.

What needs to be done is scrap the Garcia/Lara catchweight fight and make what is way past due, which is Lara vs Zerafa.

[Shadoww702]

They might as well be.

It feels like 2016 was the last time I heard about those 2.

[Roadblock]

The key quote is below. Just strip for inactivity. It's bad enough having second rate/hasbeen fighters holding belts without them also being inactive with them.

But he is a class above Zerafa I think he will stop Micheal.

My bad I answered the wrong post.