Comments Thread For: Ronnie Shields: Lara should be undefeated, ranked in P4P top 10!

[Ganondorf]

Well Ronnie, when you keep telling your fighters not to change their styles then your gonna always get the short end of the stick.
When you have no personality, no good looks, you don't speak English, and your a boring ass fighter who can't sell any tixs and isnt a huge draw then your never gonna get to the next level in Boxing.
A part of boxing is being able to sell tixs and draw huge ratings for TV networks and when your not able to do that and you have none of the above attributes I just mentioned then your always gonna be an average fighter who isn't gonna make it big in boxing or earn the big money.
Sometimes you just gotta take risks and go for broke but when a trainer tells his fighter to not change his style of fighting then he's gotta take some of the blame too.

Lara is not a bad looking man.
(No ****)

[aboutfkntime]

"Once you have a style that you've perfected, keep your style," Shields added. "Don't worry about what anybody says or whatever. Don't change your style for anybody. This is the game of boxing. Just like any other sport, once you find something that works for you, that's what you have to continue to do to keep being very successful at it."

agree with that.....

Lara could be undefeated, not should be. He clearly beat P. Will. No question about it. Canelo? I thought Lara edged it out, but it's not worth arguing about. Landy should've worked harder. He didn't. A lot of people continue to bring up Molina. I thought it was a very close fight, and that a draw was a fair decision. Carlos didn't get robbed, as many claim. May as well say Lara got robbed versus Canelo. It's boxing. Close fights can easily go either way. Hell, judges don't get clear decisions right half the time.

and that.....

He beat Williams, when Williams was the southpaw "boogeyman." I had him (at a minimum) even with Canelo. He's definitely a Top #10 talent, but he hasn't had Top #10 fights...CONSISTENTLY! Part of that is his own doing! He needs a KO tonight. Lara is 34. Father time is undefeated!

and that.....

Lara is a helluva talent, but not capitalizing on momentum is killing some of these guys with their on-off careers

I kinda feel that Rigo got forced into accepting unreasonable terms with Lomachenko..... I am not making excuses for him, because like Lara, part of that is his own doing!..... but had he been a bigger name/draw he would have got that fight at 126, or maybe 127 so the belts could still be up for grabs

the same could happen to Lara, forced to take fights under unfavorable conditions, partly because he failed to capitalize on any momentum with his career

[HI-TECH Boxing]

The problem with Lara has always been that he is content to do the minimum to win his fights, most of the time.
He never tries to separate himself more.

[CubanGuyNYC]

The problem with Lara has always been that he is content to do the minimum to win his fights, most of the time.
He never tries to separate himself more.

I have to agree. It cost him versus Canelo, in my opinion. I thought Lara won on points. Evidently, so did he and his corner. But I knew it was close. As the B-side, you have to believe you're not going to get the nod in a close fight. Landy fought the late rounds without enough urgency. The guy fights too low volume to believe he's gonna get a close decision in a fight like that. Fans, and even judges, often score rounds for the more aggressive fighter.

[Bronx2245]

agree with that.....





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and that.....

Lara is a helluva talent, but not capitalizing on momentum is killing some of these guys with their on-off careers

I kinda feel that Rigo got forced into accepting unreasonable terms with Lomachenko..... I am not making excuses for him, because like Lara, part of that is his own doing!..... but had he been a bigger name/draw he would have got that fight at 126, or maybe 127 so the belts could still be up for grabs

the same could happen to Lara, forced to take fights under unfavorable conditions, partly because he failed to capitalize on any momentum with his career

I think Lara should've called out Danny Jacobs! I know that 160 is not favorable for Lara, but if he wants big fights like a Canelo rematch, or a fight with Golovkin, that's the risk he has to take! As much as I LOVE the 154, there is no big fight for Lara in the near future! Lara is "on the clock!" Not too long before it's time to "punch out!"

[BigStomps]

Lara is not a bad looking man.
(No ****)

But he's boring as ****, he has no personality, and he don't speak English.
How the **** are you supposed to attract and connect with fans with all that going against you??

[Madison Boxing]

no he shouldnt and no he shouldnt.