Is or Is Not Lara a Quality Fight at 160

[Juof]

There will be no drama show in this one. Lara will probably get robbed like he did canelo but will probably taste the canvas. Lose lose situation for mexican fighting style

[Chrismart]

Lara is a quality fighter. If he moved up to 160 i think he would be very competitive in the division. However, if he faced GGG..i don't think it would be a very competitive fight. I think GGG wins comfortably.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

So if Klitschko beat Mayweather it would be by far the most skilled person on his resume. Same logic.

Lara could suck at 160. He could lose to Rubio, Geale and Billy Joe Saunders for all we know. Or maybe Lara is awesome at 160. Hard to say since we don't know being he's never fought there.

Regardless, if the fight is available they should make it. Knocking out Lara would probably look good at least short term.

GGG could suck at 168. That doesn't stop him wanting an immediate shot at the cash cow of the division. Unwilling to "prove himself at the weight" first.

He could lose to Robert Steiglitz or Paul Smith. We just don't know!

[Eastcoast]

I'd like to see how Lara handles a Haymon MW like Khytrov or Derevyanchenko.

[joesaiditstrue]

hes certainly not worse than Gabe Rosado who was at the time a 154.

and before people **** on rosado remember he was competitive with quillin

with all that said...Lara gets hurt if not loses almost every round vs GGG

[joesaiditstrue]

Lara is the most over-rated, over-hyped boxer at Bscene right now.

I'll say this for him though - if boxing was a non-contact sport and points were awarded for dancing, posing, and flicking 6/7 light jabs per round at your opponents gloves, then Erislandy Lara would be P4P No 1.

lara looks good vs guys who come forward as part of their natural style

he also looked pretty good vs PW

he didn't look good vs canelo because canelo was too cautious coming forward (he's more of a counter puncher anyways)

[-PBP-]

Who has Lara beat at middleweight? Monroe IS a middleweight, and a good sized one at that who was 175-178 pounds in the ring. He was ranked at middleweight. 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 and fights at 160.

Its weird how you suddenly don't believe in weight classes when it comes to Golovkin and think weight and size doesn't matter. But I'm sure if Froch would fight Kovalev you'd pretty concerned for the guy who has never fought at 175 pounds in his career and would say the size and power was too much of a difference. I mean yeah we get, Lara is a good fighter, he has a good resume at 154, but we've seen him get out muscled against guys like Carlos Molina, Angulo and even Vanes at times. If he's getting out muscled and hurt against guys like that at 154, what do you think is going to happen to him at 160 against a guy who is even bigger, stronger and a better fighter than those guys? It's a bad match up for Lara stylistically in itself, add the size difference and it spells disaster for Lara.

Monroe's best wins are Brandon Adams and Brian Vera. You saw what happened to Brandon Adams at 154 in this years Boxcino finals. He got KO'd in 2 rounds. Monroe also lost to Darnell Boone who Lara beat.

It's OK to favor GGG over Lara but to degrade Lara's career by comparing him to Monroe is nonsense. And it's funny because a lot of your teammates are demanding Floyd and Canelo to move up to 160 to fight GGG even though they've never fought at the weight before.

And if you want to degrade Lara because of the Angulo fight (where he won by TKO and was winning on points) why not use the same logic for Monroe/Boone, Lemiuex Rubio, Lee/Chavez Jr & Vera, etc. ? They all got checked but those are fights that you are defending/demanding.

[Vasyl’s dad]

I see many people saying Lara is better than anyone GGG has fought. What makes Lara better than Murray? These same people will say, "Monroe has only 6 KOs". Lara has 12. If Lara wants to make the fight so bad, why did he just fight another jr middleweight instead of proving his point that he can beat the best middleweight in the world? Lara can't even decisively beat Canelo, but somehow hes going to be the guy with 20 straight KOs and 14 title defenses? Based on what exactly? Is it the fact that he has 0 middleweight wins?

[bigjavi973]

If Gabe Rosado got a shot. Why not Lara?

"HBO DOE!!!"

[Vasyl’s dad]

If Gabe Rosado got a shot. Why not Lara?

"HBO DOE!!!"

after the Rosado fight, "Gabe was too small, he never should have been given a chance, he should have fought a middleweight first".

So what does fighting another jr middleweight prove?