If u can't win by running

[Ray*]

For all the talk from Lara he cannot complain about losing this fight to Canelo. Because having watch the fight I scored it to Canelo.

[Kagami Taiga]

LARA lost more than Canelo won !!

I agree with this.

[Facade]

Lara stopped to punch to be honest, he didn't throw them as he was moving. He mostly punched and then ran.

As for effective agressiveness: He was snapping Canelo's head back pretty good in the fist part of the fight. Also in the middle of the fight Canelo looked like he was taking over the fight after the cut, but when Lara started to punch back more in round 8, you could see Canelo felt it and slowed down only to start back up again in round 12. If Lara's punches were really so ineffective as is being argued, then that would not have happened. I can see how the running was not helping the fight, but Lara still landed more regardless of that fact and seeing the way it impacted Canelo it was effective.

You could even argue the other way around: Body punching is mostly done in order to slow the other guy down. That didn't really seem to happen. The only thing that slowed Lara down was the cut. Lara had clearly lost his bearings a bit after that, but came back to his original gameplan after that with the same ammount of excessive running. The body punches of Canelo didn't seem to effect that fact. So how effective was the body work of Canelo really? The effective punches were the headshots, but Canelo hardly connected those.

[leathernvouges]

So I guess I have to stand and trade to win, I don't believe that's boxing running isn't either but elusiveness and excellent footwork is ask yourself an honest question who would u have rather been, and I haven't seen a fight yet where halfway decent body blows outweighs eating 1-2s to the head while trying to hit home runs missing wildly wins u the fight

[pesticid]

I was addressing the TS's general hypothetical, which wasn't fight specific.

But as for your question, it's irrelevant. I wasn't micro counting who landed more on what. I watched the fight and saw one guy trying to throw punches with a guy who wouldn't stand still for 2 seconds, and the other guy running and throwing punches while on the move, which looked like one punch per minute to the general layman who isn't paid to judge a fight but instead paid to watch the fight on PPV.

At the end of the day, the right guy won in a quote "close", "competitive" fight. If you're gonna fight like Lara, you better be executing in a way where everyone undisputedly thinks that you won instead of the fans being split on it (I.E. Wlad Klitschko. For all the hugging, boring talk --- unless he is getting knocked out, there is no dispute who won the fight.)

You've become my favourite poster here, preach!