Comments Thread For: Lara Not Happy: I Tthought I Was Winning This Fight Easily!

[Tatabanya]

It was a "quality vs quantity draw"... until the knockdown. I agree with the decision.

[Andre_parker1]

Hurd won..period!

[Shadoww702]

Hurd looked VERY strong in the late rounds! Lara better be glad they dont have 15 rounders are he would of been out. Hurd sure does make fighters work hard in the early rounds.

[Shadoww702]

Hurd won..period!

Hurd beat Lara up! I know you shouldn't judge how ****** up fighters are but when your getting your ass kicked that should count for something??? It's like when Oscar lost to Trinidad and Garcia heat Petterson???

[LOWBLOW_CHAMP]

This is why I put my money on Hurd even tho Lara is way better. Hurd is flippin huge for the weight and is a potential star. So I knew if it came to it Lara would lose on the cards. Close fight tho Hurd was all over him but Lara fought back every round pretty much. U could make a case for Lara winning clearly even with the KD

[Bronx2245]

Hurd did a much better job of applying pressure than Angulo or Canelo! I've never seen Lara stay in the pocket that much EVER! I don't know why he chose to fight that way, but it sure made it a damn good fight! Hurd vs. J-Rock, or Hurd vs. Charlo, should be good fights! Now that Lara has lost his title, he won't get many callers! Where the **** is Lubin, DeLoach, and Harrison? One of y'all MAN UP!

[STREET CLEANER]

Close fight but the right man won.

For Lara's credit he did back up that he was going to fight, he made me eat my words.

But when he was trying to fight at a distance, Hurd's reach was making him work to hared and he was getting caught at the end of the punches.

[mxtali]

Close fight score wise, but Lara took an absolute beating.

[MoneyMayFan]

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.

Wow so floyd entire career is a joke he was mediocre with ref advantages lol

[ThomasJK]

Hurd deserved the win and i didnt think it was as close a fight as the score cards indicated although the compubox numbers had Lara landing at a higher percentage. Hurd controlled the fight and made Lara fight inside which is a rarity indeed. The officiating was awful as usual. Hurd has shown more improvement with his craft, but still needs to work on his defence.