Comments Thread For: Lara on Canelo: He Needs To Put on His Balls, Fight Me!

[Fetta]

One minute the business side of boxing makes sense to NSB (GGG V Chavez and not Ward) and the next it doesnt (Lara brings nothing) but hey thats NSB.

I hope it happens next so after he wins they can say Canelo is afraid of fighter _______

[Bardock]

Im not even a "Lara fan" I just want to see it because it makes too much sense not to happen LOL. Why are you so mad? You do know Canelo fights NOTHING like Angulo and wont put any of the pressure that perro put on Lara right? Its uncanny how Canelo ALWAYS gasses out after 4 rounds.. Perro was coming forward but hes going to be winded chasing Lara around. Your KO prediction totally doesnt come off as being bias though... *peeps your avatar* loooool.

Makes sense to who? Lara's 8 fans on NSB? lmao Kirkland would be a great fight he will actually come to FIGHT not run. This is what I don't understand. Lara will be running the whole time while canelo eventually catches that glass jaw and put his ass down. its realistic. not because of my avatar but because LARA cant take a ***in punch, u buffoon.

[Bardock]

THE PALE, chiseled jawline of Mexico’s favourite sporting son allowed itself the broadest of grins. Guadalajara’s flame-haired fighting machine Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez had just put six months of torment and self-doubt aside and delivered an emphatic reposte to his one-sided reverse against the blurring hand speed and balletic feet of Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather Jnr last September.

Canelo’s returning foe Alfredo Angulo carries the moniker ‘El Perro‘ (the dog) for good reason; certainly more for his sadistic love of a tear-up rather than bearing a cuddly resemblance to the Andrex puppy. The Mexicali native was no sane observer’s perception of a soft touch; a comfortable route back into big-time boxing. Alvarez’s fiesty compatriot was coming off a career-best showing against highly-touted Cuban stylist Erislandy Lara, having become the first person to drop the 2005 world amateur champion (doing so twice) when the pair swapped leather last June.

Following the acute embarrassment of playing the game, but ultimately helpless adversary in Money’s latest MGM Grand tutorial (earning him a guaranteed $41.5 million), the 23-year-old’s own dog-like tendencies were showcased in the same Nevada casino a fortnight ago. His malicious mauling of Angulo just six short months after that ghoulish Sin City nightmare was brutually vindictive in its stone-cold efficiency. In truth, the merciful 10th round stoppage could and perhaps should have been called earlier by either referee Tony Weeks or the Mexican’s seemingly unsympathetic trainer Virgil Hunter with Angulo’s sporadic defiance non-existent after the eighth round.

As a first stand at headlining a pay-per-view show in his own right, Alvarez was mighty impressive. With respect to El Perro, it is the younger man who has long intrigued the Mexican masses like no man has since Julio Cesar Chavez thrilled audiences with his audacious machismo amidst his scarcely believable 89-fight unbeaten streak in the late 80s and early 90s.

The results were encouraging for the money men at Golden Boy and Showtime, drawing in excess of 350,000 pay-per-view buys according to Stephen Espinozo, the latter’s Executive Vice President. (Mayweather-Alvarez drew 2.2 million buys to make it the richest-grossing bout in boxing history.)

Having again proven his box-office credentials, what’s next for Alvarez?

When he held the WBC light-middleweight crown Canelo was denied a blockbuster unification duel with Miguel Cotto when the Puerto Rican failed to keep his side of the bargain against WBA ruler Austin Trout in December 2012. However, with Cotto committed to fighting WBC middleweight king Sergio ‘Maravilla‘ Martinez in a Madison Square Garden blockbuster on June 7, the Mexican must look elsewhere for fistic thrills whilst waiting in the wings for the Puerto Rican warlord’s latest foray through the weights, should he upset the odds against the brilliant but ageing Argentine champion.

Lara has been doing his best to ruffle the young Mexican’s cinnamon feathers of late, both in the lead up to the Angulo massacre and in the post-fight presser. This clash would appear the most likely option for Canelo’s next encounter, earmarked for late July and perhaps the easiest to make with both fighters boxing under the Golden Boy Promotions banner who broadcast exclusively on Showtime.

Whilst it’s hard to begrudge the Cuban a career-best pay day against the potent fists of Alvarez given that Lara has seen off Angulo and former Cotto conqueror Trout in his last two bouts, the fight that holds most intrigue is that with Texas knockout artist James Kirkland.

However, the explosive loose cannon of the middleweight division has long courted controversy both in and out of the ring. In 2009 he was arrested for possessing a firearm (having already been jailed for his part in a 2003 armed robbery), which sparked a two-year hiatus from the sport.

His fractious relationship with boxing mentor Ann Wolfe, the seven-time world light-heavyweight women’s champion, has mirrored his turbulent life outside of the squared circle. His only loss came following the pair’s initial separation in early 2011; an unfathomable first round stoppage to the seemingly innocuous fists of Japanese journeyman Nobuhiro Ishida in what Golden Boy had thought was simply ‘a marking time fight’ whilst eyeing up a world title tilt at 160lbs.

Having reconciled with his fellow Texan, Kirkland proved the Ishida loss a mere aberration when he became the first man to stop Angulo, in a vociferous Cancun cauldron to close out 2011, before obtaining a highly dubious disqualification win against Carlos Molina (not to be confused with his namesake who was stopped by Amir Khan in late 2012) in his only outing the following year.

After another troubled 18-month fistic sabbatical, during which time he split from Wolfe and swapped Golden Boy for 50 Cent as his promoter, Kirkland again failed to read the script when drafted in to test the undefeated New Jersey prospect Glen Tapia in December on Atlantic City’s boardwalk resort. Eight rounds later and Kirkland’s 18 months of frustration had snapped Tapia’s perfect 20-0 ledger with such intense savagery that’s it’s hard to know whether the 24-year-old’s battered psyche will ever sufficiently recover.

Kirkland’s inactivity is clearly a concern; two fights in three years makes Mayweather look positively busy in comparison, as is his acrimonious split from Golden Boy. Regrettably, as is too frequently the case in boxing, wide-eyed optimism usually plays the poor relation to petty pragmatism between its numerous warring factions.

However, with both men sending Angulo metaphorically barking back to his kennels and given their shared lust for knockouts, having racked up 59 stoppages between them in 78 combined contests, the judges’ scorecards would likely be as useful as a pair of glasses to Vincent Van Gogh in his later years. The winner would then fight the victor of Cotto-Martinez. If only boxing had such complex simplicity. A fistic fantasy that’s sadly likely to stay just that


people want to see real fights, not some chicken running around the ring with his head cut off.

[hitking]

Lara is getting on my nerves. If canelo doesn't have anything better to do, hopefully he beats the **** outta him in the new future so he can shut what they call the f.uck up.

[MrP4P]

Makes sense to who? Lara's 8 fans on NSB? lmao Kirkland would be a great fight he will actually come to FIGHT not run. This is what I don't understand. Lara will be running the whole time while canelo eventually catches that glass jaw and put his ass down. its realistic. not because of my avatar but because LARA cant take a ***in punch, u buffoon.

Ofcourse you would want to see another come forward brawler that Canelo would KO.. ofcourse you want to see that. I want to see a championship fight between the top two fighters in the division. Not someone whos basically off the Boxing map and hasnt fought in so long and is irrelevant.

[Snake4380]

So what other fight makes sense for Canelo? You dont want to see him win another title?

I can't decide what fight should be next for Canelo until I know at what weight he'll be fighting. If he stays at '54-'55, Lara isn't a terrible choice, but this idea that Canelo is ducking him is a joke.

[onechance87]

The thought of a canelo-lara fight dont really dont excite me.
I guess cause it will most likely a chess match that will go to
a dec.Even with laras trash talking really dont hype me,You know
hes really not that type of dude.Nobody at 154 really does nothing
for canelo.Wish canelo would get fights with kirkland,ggg,cotto,martinez
those are fights that will make canelo.

[Bardock]

Ofcourse you would want to see another come forward brawler that Canelo would KO.. ofcourse you want to see that. I want to see a championship fight between the top two fighters in the division. Not someone whos basically off the Boxing map and hasnt fought in so long and is irrelevant.

Oh so now canelo can only fight lara or hes a duck? he cant beat other champions with different styles because what? lets hear it? genius? STFU already I want to see the fight so we can shut up you 7 fans who come on every thread with canelo's name in it and cry for lara.

[ElCaneloAlvarez]

Ofcourse you would want to see another come forward brawler that Canelo would KO.. ofcourse you want to see that. I want to see a championship fight between the top two fighters in the division. Not someone whos basically off the Boxing map and hasnt fought in so long and is irrelevant.

I hope it happens because I don't doubt for a second that Canelo will maul Lara. And then the Cuban spammers will say Lara was paid to take a beating.

[onechance87]

Ofcourse you would want to see another come forward brawler that Canelo would KO.. ofcourse you want to see that. I want to see a championship fight between the top two fighters in the division. Not someone whos basically off the Boxing map and hasnt fought in so long and is irrelevant.

Really dont wanna see a canelo-trout lara-trout fights.Like to see sum
action fights.So far in 2014 has really ****** in getting sum action
fights.Canelo-angulo didnt really do it for me