Narrowly? He beat the living **** out of Williams and on his way to an L against Angulo? He was ahead and boxing his ears off throughout. Angulo had very little success but the two knockdowns.
Unlike most pure boxers Lara actually gets knockouts and scores knockdowns. How can people say he is boring? The only time he was boring was against Vanes and Molina - two guys nobody has ever looked good against.
Lara is vastly overrated and has only ever dropped duds as opposed to Canelo who dropped a real murderers row of opponents in Matthew Hatton, Cotto's little brother, shot Cintron, Ryan Rhodes etc
Its weird people knock his resume - The man has about 20 fights and has already fought Vanes, Williams, Angulo, Trout, Molina and soon to be Canelo. Who else is fighting that comp in so few pro fights?
Lara is everything that is right with boxing and one of the few who have never cherrypicked or ducked anybody. Would it hurt to give the guy just a little respect?
Lara does come across as an idiot, living off the reputation of that solid performance against P Will, a fight which honestly could have gone either way.
Since then he got caught by one of the slowest fighters ever, multiple times and barely got through it. This was supposed to be a fight in which all his skills were supposed to give him a showcase victory.
Outside of that, he has provided dud after dud after dud.
But the kid has good skills and speed and is rangy enough to do well. He just needs to prove it.
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