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I've been a casual fan/supporter of Lara since his 2011 domination and historic robbery vs. P. Williams. I love an underdog, and slick southpaw fighters are pretty much my faves to follow & root for. But
I would tell Erislandy "my man, you're just not a great fighter. But you're pretty darn good. I wish you hadn't wasted most of your athletic prime by taking far too few bouts each year against a number of progressively decreasing talent fighters - which always left you overmatched against your top level peers." he's only 34...no excuses whatsoever. Does anyone still believe Golovokin would have had the slightest difficulty against Lara? This is an older fighter in GGG, so enough with the Lara excuses. His biggest career wins came against Paul Williams and Trout. He dropped the ball against Canelo, was retreating and avoiding exchanges so obviously as that fight wore on, and don't forget he got badly, badly cut (for 1St time in his career) by a routine Canelo uppercut to begin a round. All that crappie he talked about Canelo and what should have been his career springboard ended up being the pinnacle -- and inevitable decline (by his.own fault) into mediocrity.
If we are judging talent levels, for simplification, by either A, B, & C grading scale - it's not reasonable to say Lara was anything more or less than "B". And he did it to himself by fighting nobodies for 3-4 straight years --> one bout per year AT THAT!
I would tell Erislandy "my man, you're just not a great fighter. But you're pretty darn good. I wish you hadn't wasted most of your athletic prime by taking far too few bouts each year against a number of progressively decreasing talent fighters - which always left you overmatched against your top level peers." he's only 34...no excuses whatsoever. Does anyone still believe Golovokin would have had the slightest difficulty against Lara? This is an older fighter in GGG, so enough with the Lara excuses. His biggest career wins came against Paul Williams and Trout. He dropped the ball against Canelo, was retreating and avoiding exchanges so obviously as that fight wore on, and don't forget he got badly, badly cut (for 1St time in his career) by a routine Canelo uppercut to begin a round. All that crappie he talked about Canelo and what should have been his career springboard ended up being the pinnacle -- and inevitable decline (by his.own fault) into mediocrity.
If we are judging talent levels, for simplification, by either A, B, & C grading scale - it's not reasonable to say Lara was anything more or less than "B". And he did it to himself by fighting nobodies for 3-4 straight years --> one bout per year AT THAT!
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