Paul Williams vs. Erislandy Lara on July 9th
May 19th, 2011
By Eric Thomas: Former World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Paul Williams (39-2, 27 KO’s) has found a replacement opponent for his July 9th fight at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Williams, 29, will be fighting in the main event on the card against unbeaten but recently exposed Erislandy Lara (15-0-1, 10 KO’s). Williams was supposed to be fighting the light hitting junior middleweight contender Nobuhiro Ishida next.
Lara, a southpaw from Cuba, can punch a little, but he’s more of a boxer than a puncher. To be sure, Lara has an impressive knockout record but those wins have come largely against 2nd and 3rd tier opposition. Boxing fans perhaps got to see what Lara’s true talent is when he struggled against fringe contender Carlos Molina in his last fight in March and had to settle for a 10 round draw. Lara should consider himself very fortunate that he got a draw out of that fight because I saw him losing that fight by a couple of rounds. He’s a good fighter but can’t handle pressure very well and is mediocre on the inside.
If Williams can stay close to Lara and put a lot of pressure on him, he should be okay. Lara has a nice uppercut that he likes to throw, so Williams is going to have to be careful he doesn’t get hit with it too many times. Lara also likes to throw a chopping left hand that sometimes hits his opponents in the back of their heads. This is another weapon that Williams needs to be careful of. He can avoid getting hit with those shots by keeping his head up and not bending forward to give Lara a big target.
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Yo soy cubano y vivo en tampa y my opinion de la pelea de lara y poll wilian es k los que vieron canar a wilan isieron un mal trabajo pork desde k empeso el combate lara domino la pelea es una injustisa la desision de no darle l as pelea a lara pero bueno alla ariba hay un dios
lara va a darle ko a williansmiren bien esa pelea va a estar muy buena
lara will kill pw ,ur not a cuban olimpic champion for nothing
paul is gonna have to use a jab and fight with his hands down so he can see punches you’re a boxer not a slugger coming use your reach fight tall move your head like Mohammad Ali done it works paul never let your lead punch be a hook always make it a jab too easy to run inside of a hook and land a knock out punch like Martinez done learned your lesson now adjust find him with the jab then the hook
man, to avery bady tallking about erislandys lara, and any one know’s landy know that him is much more better fighter than ashida how’s ashida no bady know hin in usa, and olso no record on hbo, show time or any browcasting network erislandy has that plus it is a dangeus fighter and much more spiriencis on boxing it will ko poul williang on 3rd round
Williams needs new management. He should be fighting a low risk fight against a big name older fighter coming off the KO loss to Martinez, not fighting an up and coming hungry young fighter nobody has heard of. Everybody loses sometimes – PW is still 1 of the top pound 4 pound fighters in the world. He should be fighting another top rate boxer. PW wins by early KO but so what, it proves nothing and he won’t make any real $$$.
lara is going to win this fight for tko in the 1st round
Williams has been in decline for sometime now. He looked vulnerable in both Martinez bouts AND even against Cintron. Wondering how much his last fight took out of him. In picking a guy with 1/3rd of his experience, I see that Team Williams may be aware of it as well.
Lara wins by KO. Paul is a great fighter one of the best. But Lara is better.
This will be a great fight, cant wait!!!
ishida was good in last fight but mostly unkown and im a hardcore boxing fan who watches any fight so thats why lara makes more sense
Honestly Lara is a better tougher opponent than the 1 paul williams had to fight, but i still believe the paul william is going to win this fight pretty easy but if lara wins not only will that be a career boost and start putting him with top dollar fights but will also have every one wondering if sergio martinez messed paul williams up
Landy is a gud fight look him up his last fight jus wisest on point everybody has a bad nite this will b a gud close fight until Paul knocks him out
My son Paul will win by knockout in the late rounds
wtf? erislandy who? nobody wants this fight, I definitely want to see ishida
Yep Ishida deserved this chance, he exposed HBO’s boy, big time.
Lara should win this fight. Williams, imo, is done.
I love hbo but they’re kinda whack like dat…they know that they’re paying good money so they probly don’t wanna risk to see williams get his career ruined if dis guy ishida was to pull another upset. Lara I think will loose, record and past opponents speaks for itself. I would’ve loved to see the fight, I mean come on 2 tall fighters.
Ishida was coming off a big win against kirkland. I’ve never heard of this guy. I’ll watch either way I just don’t understand why HBO was against giving ishida the shot. When you pull an upset its supposed to lead to bigger things