Cuban fighters taking a lot of L's lately

[wlad1111]

If Lara can literally run around for 12 rounds he can beat Hurd easily. Hurd stinks but he's huge and keeps walking through punches until the other guy tires out.

this. hurd is just a physically superior beast that never backs down.I think it's probably good to attack hurds body to take some sting out of him punches and just decision him.

[Street]

As good as Cuban boxers are, they can't escape the island with their entire team. That makes a difference. You swim straight to the States only to find yourself alone and in need of a good crew. You're not going to find it. The teachers back home are the ones who molded you into what you are and anyone else is just going to disfigure your already defined style of fighting. You need to swim back in the cover of darkness, bag your crew while they sleep, throw the bag on your back like Santa and swim back. There's no other way! Nah, I don't know

[turnedup]

Yunier Dorticos and Yunieski Gonzales also lost recently, the thing is that less Cubans are going to turn pro if they see that the ones that defect are not doing as good as they expected.

After seeing Ortiz's house in the lead up to the Wilder fight...they'll be turning pro at record speeds. Hell I was impressed by that myself and I usually am not.

[DoktorSleepless]

Cuban nerf patch finally went live.

[Sidney Powell]

None of these guys are exactly fresh young blood

Speaking of, where is all the young Cuban talent? Do they all just stick in the ams for a while?

[brettWall]

Will Lara be next? I don't know. But he looked frustrated in the Gausha fight whom he expected to come forward all night. The crowd was booing and wanted to see Lara go aggressive instead and execute the finishing touches. The Cuban couldn't do it.

[pesticid]

Ortiz, Barrera, Dorticos and Barthelemy were never the top fighters in Cuba . Ortiz won as a junior and so did Barrera but they were never la crème de la crème. The guys that were la crème de la crème in Cuba are Rigondeaux and Lara. Dugas was a world champ in the worlds surprisingly but I don't see him as a top talent. So while we can get upset over Rigo quitting against Loma because Rigo was a once in a while talent, the rest of the Cubans really performed up to their abilities and lost to the better man. Let's see if Lara can turn the tide.

[pesticid]

As good as Cuban boxers are, they can't escape the island with their entire team. That makes a difference. You swim straight to the States only to find yourself alone and in need of a good crew. You're not going to find it. The teachers back home are the ones who molded you into what you are and anyone else is just going to disfigure your already defined style of fighting. You need to swim back in the cover of darkness, bag your crew while they sleep, throw the bag on your back like Santa and swim back. There's no other way! Nah, I don't know

Great post! They perform great in Cuba because they don't have the business side of things, the temptations an all of that. They just worry about the sport and they have a great teaching system. In the U.S. it's just different. Not to make excuses but that's how it is, also the fact that the ones competing here were never the best in Cuba except for Rigo and Lara and Sullivan was 36, Rigo was 36, Ortiz was 38. You get a bad batch at a bad time losing to the best fighters in the world, what are you gonna do?

[FinitoxDinamita]

They are losers.

They were better in the 50. 60 and 70.

They are only good on the amatuer level.

Once they make that trip on a banana to US and get their first taste of Mcdonalds, they lose the hunger ala solis, Gamboa etc.

[Eff Pandas]

Oh sh^t yea thats surely been noticed by Erislandy. He needs to be on top of his game cuz Hurd is a step or two the last few guys he's fought I feel like. If thats enough or if Erislandy has fallen down a step or two himself is to be answered soon enough.