Canelo vs. Lara Just Became The Most Important Fight of the Year

[R_Walken]

It's important for Oscar. I saw Lara say that awhile ago but you cant be surprised they'd been setting him for failure since they've signed him and haven't supported him.

I said this as soon as the fight was announced that Haymon/ Richard pulled a fast one on Oscar. If Lara wins Decisivly ( Which I predict) that's knocks Canelo stock way down leaving Oscar with what assets exactly a diminished Canelo and Mares who coming off a KO. Oscar is getting played like a fiddle in this situation.

[Canelo Phresh]

Canelo is knocking Lara out!

[JaguaresMx]

well, this is a big deal now.

Part of me believes that De La hoya's approach is not always business savy, but it reflects who he was as a fighter: he took on ALL of them. This is risky, but in the long-term gave him the Golden Boy persona.

Floyd is nothing like that. He wants to maximize profit by minimizing risk, which seems to be Haymon approach. This is good for boxers under Haymon, but not he rest.

Boxing is a business, but its also a sport. People want to see great fights and great fighters fight each other. The health of the sport, the ability to be a business, depends on it being a sport first.

So I am going to say that in the long term De la Hoya's approach wins out. We don't remember the "0"s as well as we remember the legends who lost.

[Weebler I]

Pull Canelo from the fight. Match him vs sergio vs cotto winner smartest move for Oscar at this point

Yep, this right here.

Oscar doesn't need Canelo in that bout.

[The Gambler1981]

I always thought it was the most important fight, because Canelo is really the future and the only thing that can change that is if he isn't the goods and if he isn't the goods he isn't beating Lara.


Now it takes on added importance for those reasons also.

[Foreign Soil]

It's not important. The Jnr Middleweight division is irrelevant. The winner of this fight still isn't that good.

[Dinamita 03]

It's not important. The Jnr Middleweight division is irrelevant. The winner of this fight still isn't that good.

Really, care to elaborate on that?

[Foreign Soil]

Really, care to elaborate on that?

Lara getting hammered by Angulo/had some trouble with Vanes/lots of trouble with Molina. Canelo looked like garbage against Floyd and Trout. Neither are great fighters and shouldn't be "champ" in a division that's worth a piss. Good fighters? Yes, but wouldn't even label them as "very good". Neither of them have that x factor to push em over the edge.

It's irrelevant because you have Floyd, who is a part time 154 lber as the champ. The division doesn't really make much sense at all. Canelo can barely even make weight - he's a damn MW. Wtf? Division reeks.

[Mr.Fantastic]

"I'm not with Golden Boy. I'm with Haymon". Lara can put a HUGE dent into the new GBP. We already have the first Haymon vs. GBP fight of the Post-Schaefer era.

I wonder if Oscar would have taken this fight knowing that this would happen.

This is going to be bump worthy in time. I'm a Lara fan but he better not bitch later on that he can't get fights.

[Dinamita 03]

Lara getting hammered by Angulo/had some trouble with Vanes/lots of trouble with Molina. Canelo looked like garbage against Floyd and Trout. Neither are great fighters and shouldn't be "champ" in a division that's worth a piss. Good fighters? Yes, but wouldn't even label them as "very good". Neither of them have that x factor to push em over the edge.

It's irrelevant because you have Floyd, who is a part time 154 lber as the champ. The division doesn't really make much sense at all. Canelo can barely even make weight - he's a damn MW. Wtf? Division reeks.

I see what your getting at, but honestly how many great fighters are there in the sport? All those guys you mentioned are top fighters and for the most part very difficult to look good against. Now your probably right that neither guys is going to be great but they're still very good fighters and at the very least one guy has the opportunity to come out on top and show he's head and shoulders above the other. There's only a few fighters today who you can honestly say are clearly superior to any of these guys talent wise. IMO your just being too demanding at least in these current conditions where we rarely see two top guys squaring off.

It also seems unfair to nitpick a division when basically the whole state of boxing is in the same position where most divisions have multiple belts but no real champ.