Comments Thread For: Erislandy Lara Keeps Winning, Keeps Calling For Canelo, Golovkin

[Progrssive_Jedi]

I agree. When are the Cuban guys ever reasonable when it comes to the business side though?

But if they can come up with 500k for Dominic Wade then they can surely find 750k to 1M for Lara.

Lara's manager has made it clear he won't fight Golovkin for 1m, and then pointed to Brook getting 5m.

[sterilizer]

By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Fifty-five of 89 media members polled in the aftermath suggested Lara’s effort warranted no worse than a draw, - See more at: http://www.boxingscene.com/erislandy-lara-keeps-winning-keeps-calling-canelo-golovkin--112725#sthash.w9eWpS7e.dpuf..
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I have a simple question here:

Of all those "89 media members" please remove all those SUPER-BIASED against Canelo ones (either due to his being Mexican or for plain jealousy, as in, unbelievably so, Mexican commentators themselves). That is, please remove all commentators from the following nationalities:

1) Americans (Mexican-haters in all regards, boxing included of course)
2) Mexicans (Most if not all Mexican commentators and ex-fighters or current fighters are jealous of Canelo's popularity and success).
3) Puerto Ricans (the boxing rivalry between Puerto Rico and Mexico, more than rivalry, is actually outright hatred).
4) Cubans (simply because Erislandy is Cuban, duh)

It would be very interesting to see what the remaining, presumably non-biased "media members" thought about the fight.

I saw the whole fight. I saw a TOTAL AND COMPLETE COWARD (Lara) running away from Canelo, the minute he realized Canelo can Punch and could easily KO Lara, if he engaged Canelo like a real man would have, even for just a minute).

I also saw that yes, Lara connected a bit more total punches, mostly jabs to the face of Canelo, some of them very clear, which actually snapped Canelo's head back a few times. Yes, that looks kind of impressive. But is not as meaningful as a shocking body punch, clearly connected.

But I also saw that THE MEANINGFUL punches, the power punches to the body, were connected by Canelo, almost exclusively. That's the very reason why that super-coward loud-mouth Lara was on his bicycle the whole night, receiving huge punches to the body sporadically--but enough for Canelo to win rounds--, and throwing lots of cowardly jabs at a far distance. That IS NOT ring generalship, that's, putting it plain and simple, SHEER COWARDICE and self-preservation.

Lara didn't deserve to win that fight because he "fought" like a complete coward, running away all the time, never ever engaging. Trout did engage Canelo, same did Mosley and to a much lesser degree, even Floyd. They took a chance against a guy with tremendous KOing power. Cotto BTW did similar to Lara: once he felt Canelo's power, he mounted on his bicycle the whole fight, and then he had the nerve of saying he was robbed. But in his defense, he was easily two divisions smaller than Canelo on fight night, so running away was his only choice. On the contrary, Lara was about the same weight as Canelo on fight night.

Canelo gave Lara a chance to be a man and actually fight him, for only peanuts for Canelo because almost any other high-level fight would have brought in more money for Canelo, but he faced this CUBAN SUPER-COWARD, to please boxing fans.

There's no real justifiable reason to watch another running contest of Canelo awkwardly chasing cowardly Lara, unable to KO him simply because for some strange reason, nobody has taught Canelo how to cut off the ring, like many others do or did in their time (the likes of GGG, JCC Senior, etc.).

If a survey is made of whom do people wish to see Canelo fight, I'm sure Lara wouldn't even be included in such a list. Most people like watching a FIGHT, not a coward jabbing his way to a possible decision in Olympic style, boring the heck out of everybody. Talk about the likes of Lara himself and Rigondeaux.

Why doesn't cowardly Lara chase a fight against a similar cowardly-style fighter such as Floyd? That would be the snooze-fest of the century, but very interesting to see which of those two would "man up" at least for one round or so, after being booed and thrown objects onto them from the audience.

[Mammoth]

golovtits

This place is dumb

[Dr Rumack]

Lara's manager has made it clear he won't fight Golovkin for 1m, and then pointed to Brook getting 5m.

Brook got that money because of Sky. How is Lara going to generate it? He doesn't have a Sky audience to turn to.

[deuce_drop]

big risk, little reward, next to no money....

sadly, these are the things that plague Lara.

why take the risk. what Lara is going to have to do is troll, make noise, and call out fighters. turning heel isn't a bad move, be the bad guy, talk lots of shidt, and create the demand, force the fights to happen, otherwise, they're just going to keep avoiding him.

[al-Xander]

Lara's manager has made it clear he won't fight Golovkin for 1m, and then pointed to Brook getting 5m.

That's why Decubas and Lara are getting exposed for this deceptive practice of theirs using Golovkin's name to promote their Zaveck-level opponents. What's so special about calling out anybody for $5 million? Even a Zaveck-level fighter can call out any KO artist for such amount. Don't even know why they keep taking these clowns seriously. They don't even do anything other than talk and tweet. Loeffler needs to call them. Beggars are choosers and dictate terms nowadays. It's sooo styooopid.

[Burt Saxby]

Tom L is so full of it. . . Yeah , Lara kept calling Canelo out and Canelo did what you are supposed to do and he shut him up in the ring. .
When is Golovkin going to do the same. Ignoring him over and over again is starting to look very bad for them. Especially when they fought a welter weight no problem and golovkin isn't exactly spoilt for choice when it comes to opponents.
People have to start believing that team GGG want no part of this fight .

[Boxing lives]

Lara will school charlo brothers, easy

Lara doesn't want the fight with Jermall Charlo since they share a trainer. To bad Golovkin is scared of getting schooled and won't risk fighting him. He knows Lara will teach him a boxing lesson and win by unanimous decision 118-110

[Snoop Frog]

I know it's fashionable to crap on Golovkin at the moment but the good thing about someone unifying the division is that he has to fight mandatories to stay unified.

If Lara (or anyone) wants to fight GGG all they have to do is get ranked #1 in any of 3 sanctioning bodies at MW. That should not be that hard to do.

Make Lara vs N'Dam for the interim belt, grab it and lobby for a mando to be ordered. Then he would get his shot.

Yeah, yeah I know Brook didn't but if Lara really wants the fight he's got to go after it.

It's nice to see some logic on the forums and not just whining and complaining. That being said, let's start the countdown: 3, 2, 1...

[hitking]

His manager said he won't fight for what Lemiuex got, and wants what Brook got. Hearns got GGG/Brook paid. Lara isn't anywhere near the money maker Brook is for Hearns.

Until Lara knows his current place, he won't land GGG for sure.

Same can be said for GGG when it comes to landing Canelo. Let me start this statement by saying Canelo is ducking GGG. That said, as the lesser draw, doesn't GGG need to "know his current place", and bend go Canelo's demands in order to make the fight happen? Canelo is lame for the lil weight games he's constantly playing. Buy from where I'm sitting, 164.5, or whatever bull**** weight Canelo has come up with. Is gonna be a helluva lot tougher for Chavez Jr to make than 155 would have been for GGG. As easily as GGG supposedly makes 160. 155 may have been easier for GGG than it was for Canelo. So why not make the fight?

That's the problem when fighters start playing the A-side/B-side game. Unless you're Floyd Mayweather, somebody out there is always a bigger fish. As big a star as Manny was, he had to bend over in negotiations with Floyd. Boxing would be so much better, and probably more popular. If fighters like GGG simply went out and said, who's the best available guy that wants to fight me? Then made it happen. Because as a fight fan, if you wanna see Canelo-GGG. There's no logical reason not to wanna see Lara-GGG. Both Lara And Canelo have made their living at jr middleweight. And they're no worse than equals in terms of level of fighter. So there's basically no difference in GGG fighting one or the other. The only difference is what each fight will do for his bank account. And you, me, nor anyone should care how much money these guys make.