Is or Is Not Lara a Quality Fight at 160

[bigjavi973]

How is Lara better than Murray?

[Ryn0]

He is no better or worse then the people GGG has been fighting

He'd definitely be better and the only real boxer he'd have fought.

[DoktorSleepless]

Who has Lara beat at middleweight? He was ranked at middleweight.

Who has Monroe beaten at middleweight? You seriously think Lara would have any trouble with all the bums in Monroe's record? Has Monroe faced a bigger puncher than Angulo and Canelo (regardless of weightclass) and lived? He has not.

Monroe IS a middleweight, and a good sized one at that who was 175-178 pounds in the ring

Where in the world are you getting 178 from? He was 172 against Golovkin. Lara was 170 against Smith, and is only one inch shorter than Monre. Same reach. This isn't some huge size difference.

If Lara were to fight Monroe I'd favor Monroe to win for sure. Not because I think Monroe is the better fighter or has a better resume but because he's the bigger fighter

As I established, Monroe is barely bigger than Lara. And after fights like Cotto-Geale, Chavez-Vera/Martinez, I would have though everyone has learned that size does not win fights by now. I mean, you would almost (and I emphasize almost here) have a point if Monroe was a big puncher, but he's feather fisted with a 30% KO ratio. Do you believe Monroe hits harder than Canelo?

and fights at 160

and fights nobodies** at 160. What we know from Monroe is that he can handle mediocre fighters at middleweight. Lara can handle mediocre fighters at middleweight like Ronald Hearns too.

This is some very spurious reasoning from you. Using your logic, you should favor any bigger feather fisted fighter with no notable wins over an elite fighter in the weight class below.

[bojangles1987]

I agree. More so the reasoning why if he can't get fights as his team says, why not fight Lara (again for those, lara > Rosado)? I mean... shit they picked monroe over lara because he was more known according to sanchez.

And that was straight garbage. It's the first time since Golovkin hit the US that I don't think his team put in effort to fight the best possible opponent. Yeah, he fought Stevens and Rosado and Ishida, but always once he had tried to fight better fighters. For Monroe they pretty much had him in the pipeline before the Murray fight even happened.

I won't ever defend that, and I'll be pissed if they do that again.

[bigjavi973]

But you haven't even done that. You named 4 guys who were his best wins, and those guys he beat, aren't better than the guys Golovkins opponents beat. So what exactly makes a jr middleweight a quality opponent at 160?

Lara is a better fight for Floyd than GGG is he not?

I smell a current/former pac fan who's now a GGG fan...

do CW's, fighting unranked guys, guys after beatings affect Pac legacy

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?p=15707757#post15707757

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[lefthook2daliva]

Lara would be the most skilled guy GGG has fought as a pro.

They never fought each other in the ams, did they? How did that go?

Anyhow, these guys are close enough to the same size that this fight should be viewed as legit @ 160, imo.

Make the fight.

[DoktorSleepless]

Lara would be the most skilled guy GGG has fought as a pro.

They never fought each other in the ams, did they? How did that go?

Anyhow, these guys are close enough to the same size that this fight should be viewed as legit @ 160, imo.

Make the fight.

It's not some huge physical mismatch as people are making it out to be. Whoever wins, it won't be due to to size. It'll be due to skill.

[Vasyl’s dad]

I smell a current/former pac fan who's now a GGG fan...

do CW's, fighting unranked guys, guys after beatings affect Pac legacy

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?p=15707757#post15707757

How is Lara better than Murray?

[Vasyl’s dad]

Lara would be the most skilled guy GGG has fought as a pro.

They never fought each other in the ams, did they? How did that go?

Anyhow, these guys are close enough to the same size that this fight should be viewed as legit @ 160, imo.

Make the fight.

Backing away jabbing all night is a skill now?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

It's not some huge physical mismatch as people are making it out to be. Whoever wins, it won't be due to to size. It'll be due to skill.

Well that kills another lame excuse by the GGG fantards