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Well, think again!
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Lara was just as slick as Floyd in this fight. It had nothing to do with slickness. The biggest difference between Lara in this fight with Bayless as the ref and Floyd in all his fights with Bayless as the ref is that Bayless protected Floyd, but not Lara. In every Floyd fight, Floyd would use his superior reach and speed to dominate on the outside, then whenever the opponent got on the inside where he had the advantage, Floyd would hold, and Bayless would immediately come in, stop the opponent from getting out of the clinch and beating up Mayweather inside, and then take a second to fully reset the fighters, giving Floyd time to breath, rest his legs, and reset back to long range where he could dominate again. Floyd was able to keep this up all 12 rounds without getting tired because he would have about 10 mini rests every round while Bayless broke the fighters. This preserved Floyd's legs for the 12 rounds, even as he got older.
But since Bayless was seemed to know his job was to help Hurd win this time, not Lara, Bayless barely broke and reset Lara and Hurd the whole fight. That meant that unlike Floyd, Lara actually had to constantly move and defend himself for 3 minutes of all 12 rounds. This is exhausting, and it caught up to him late in the fight.
That was the biggest difference. Before the fatigue set in, Lara blocked or slipped almost every punch except a few jabs and the left hook to the body occasionally.
The same thing happened in Mayweather-Mcgregor. This was the one fight where Floyd was actually at a reach disadvantage. Mcgregor had the advantage on the outside, Floyd on the inside. A reversal of the norm with Floyd. So how did the ref handle it? The ref had to reverse what is usually done in Floyd fights as well in order to keep giving Floyd the advantage. This time, instead of breaking the fighters constantly back to range and giving Mcgregor, the guy moving back this time trying to preserve his legs, time to rest, the ref barely broke the boxers, and did not force Mayweather to take steps back to go back to range. He broke Floyd and Mcgregor very quickly and close to each other so that Floyd could go right back to the inside.
It's just like how when Kovalev hurt Ward with a jab in round 1 of their 1st fight, then Ward held, the ref took about 10 seconds to break Kovalev and Ward in order to give Ward time to recover, and then he kept pushing Kovalev back multiple times to ensure that Ward had plenty of distance to defend himself. But when Ward hurt Kovalev in the 8th round of their rematch, and Kovalev held, the ref jumped in as quickly as possible, pulled Kovalev's arms off of Ward, and then pretended like he was going to break them to distance but instead only pushed Ward back 6 inches and then jumped out of there as quickly as possible before Kovalev was ready so that Ward could ambush him with 2 or 3 low blows and then he called off the fight.
It actually blows my mind that more fans have not picked up on this. Start paying attention to how refs handle the holding, and the BREAKING, of certain boxers in certain fights, and you will notice an obvious trend. Tonight was just the latest example. They wanted the younger, undefeated, more entertaining, more suited for Charlo to beat fighter to win tonight, and the ref did his part, and so did the judges in a very close fight, but Moretti sided with the house guy like he does pretty much every single time.Comment
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The tears are tasty.
On the bright side he didn't quit like Rigo.Comment
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When Lara lost to Williams and Canelo fans claimed Lara had been robbed and they do have a case and i believe too Lara won those fights. But in this fight it was close and could have gone either way. The decision was acceptable.. i had Hurd winning 114-113Comment
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How could he think he was winning easy he would throw 3/4 class shots each round volume by hurd and agressive aproach was impressive was a good close fight but hurd was the winner i had him up by threeComment
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Lara stayed in the pocket too much fighting at a distance he would have got itComment
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Lara is a ****ing warrior...but i had him losing the fightComment
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Hurd are Charlo are HUGE!!! Its amazing that both can make 153??? After seeing Lara/Canelo and Canelo/GGG??? Both are bigger than GGG. They look more like S. MW's than anything. Heck DeGale looks scrawny compared to Hurd...Comment
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Anyone now still saying GGG would of easily KO'd Lara needs to put the pipe down...Comment
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