Erislandy Lara Boxing News

By Dan Ambrose: It’s pretty clear what unbeaten junior middleweight contender Erislandy Lara (15-0-1, 10 KO’s) will be attempting to do tonight against Paul Williams (39-2, 27 KO’s) in their scheduled 12 round non title fight at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

By Peter Wells: When first hearing about this fight I couldn’t really believe it, a big prospect like Erislandy Lara who is coming off the back of a draw is fighting Paul ‘The Punisher’ Williams. Yes, Paul was knocked out brutally last time out but he’s still one of the best Light Middleweights in the [...]

About Williams-Lara and Ramos-Shimoda Paul “The Punisher” Williams looks to make statement against unbeaten and world ranked Cuban defector Erislandy Lara (15-0-1, 10 KOs) in a battle of southpaws.

Atlantic City, NJ (July 8, 2011) – The Junior Middleweight bout between Paul “The Punisher” Williams and Cuban southpaw Erislandy Lara and World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Bantamweight Championship bout between WBA #1-ranked Rico Ramos and Akifumi Shimoda are just 24 hours away and the officials have been announced.

This weekend, the Boxing Channel will be providing extensive coverage of the WBA lightweight title match between Brandon Rios and Urbano Antillon at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California, as well as the Paul Williams-Erislandy Lara junior middleweight match at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. All the coverage can be seen at [...]

By Dan Ambrose: This Saturday night former WBO welterweight champion Paul Williams (39-2, 27 KOs) faces Cuban Erislandy Lara (15-0, 10 KO’s) in a 12 round bout at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It’s incredibly difficult to get excited about this fight because Williams was knocked cold in his last bout in [...]

KERY DAVIS (HBO): Antonio Margarito. Carlos Quintana twice. Kermit Cintron and a failed fight against Kelly Pavlik. When you think about that list of names – no one has fought that level of competition Live on HBO in the past few years other than Paul Williams. Needless to say, Paul Williams is a warrior and [...]

HBO’s hit late-night boxing franchise presents a night of hot action from the Jersey Shore, headlined by the comeback bout of one of the sport’s elite, when HBO BOXING AFTER DARK: PAUL WILLIAMS VS. ERISLANDY LARA AND AKIFUMI SHIMODA VS. RICO RAMOS is seen SATURDAY, JULY 9 at 10:15 p.m. (live ET/tape-delayed PT), from the [...]

As the Co-Feature to the Paul “The Punisher” Williams-Erislandy Lara 12-ROUND MAIN EVENT BOUT, the Ramos-Shimoda CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT WILL BE PIT THE WBA #1-ranked Rico Ramos (19-0, 10 KOs) challenging World Champion, Akifumi Shimoda (23-2-1, 10 KOs) in a 12-round bout for the Tokyo native’s World Boxing Association (WBA) Super Bantamweight Championship.

Los Angeles, CA (June 29, 2011) – World Boxing Council (WBC) Featherweight Champion, Jhonny Gonzalez, returns to the ring on a Televisa broadcast, after becoming a three-time World Champion this past April when he traveled to Japan to knockout the defending World Champion, Hozumi Haswegawa in the 4th round.

DAN GOOSSEN: Paul Williams vs. Erislandy Lara will be in association with Golden Boy Promotions also with my good friends for many years Luis DeCubas and his son Junior. We expect a very competitive fight with two-time world amateur champion Lara, undefeated and now living in Miami, FL. The fight will be at Atlantic City’s [...]

By Alexis Aviles: Boxing in the summer is usually the slow point of the year gearing you for the more anticipated fights happening later in the fall. A year ago the most we got was Juan Diaz vs Juan Manuel Marquez in their second fight, which failed to live up to their first fight. We [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former two time World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight champion Paul Williams (39-2, 27 KO’s) goes up against unbeaten Cuban Erislandy Lara (15-1, 10 KO’s) next month on July 9th at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This is good fight but a very risky one for the 29-year-old Williams, as [...]

Right now, a typical schedule of boxing’s upcoming bouts would include the following two entries with few other details: July 9: Erislandy Lara vs. Paul Williams (HBO) July 9: Carlos Molina vs. Kermit Cintron (Showtime)

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 [...]

By Jim Dower: In an all around disappointing fight, unbeaten junior middleweight contender Erislandy Lara (15-0-1, 10 KO’s) struggled to a 10 round majority draw with Mexican Carlos Molina (17-4-2, 5 KO’s) on Friday night at the Cosmopolitan Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The final judges’ scores were 97-93 for Molina, 95-95 and 95-95.

By FIGHT PICK EXPERTS – Rising junior middleweight star Erislandy Lara will look to continue his push towards a world title shot when he faces renowned spoiler “King” Carlos Molina at Las Vegas, NV’s The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in the main event of this week’s ESPN 2′s Friday Night Fights.

ESPN’s Friday Night Fights will originate from Las Vegas, Nev. on March 25 at 10 p.m. ET on ESPN2 where undefeated, junior middleweights Erislandy “El Oro del Guantanamo” Lara (15-0, 10 KO’s WBA #5, WBC #11) and Yudel Jhonson (9-0, 6 KO’s) are featured in 10-round co-main events. Joe Tessitore and Teddy Atlas will be [...]

To list all of Cuban southpaw Erislandy Lara’s amateur accomplishments would take several minutes. He’s been an elite fighter for many years. And although some amateur stars don’t translate well into professionals, Lara (15-0, 10 KOs) is currently on a four-fight first-round knockout streak against intermediate-level opposition.

By Jim Dower: This Friday night on March 25th, unbeaten junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (15-0, 10 KO’s0 will be taking on tough Mexican Carlos Molina (17-4-1, 5 KO’s) in a scheduled 10 round bout at the Cosmopolitan Resort, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lara, ranked #5 WBA, #6 IBF, #10 WBC in the junior middleweight [...]

MIAMI-A press conference was held to announce “Friday Night Fights at the Cosmopolitan” a night of world-class professional boxing at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, presented by The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in association with Warriors Boxing and Blue Wave Group, and televised live on ESPN2′s “Friday Night Fights”.

By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten highly ranked welterweight/junior middleweight Saul Alvarez (35-0-1, 26 KO’s) is looking to fight the terribly flawed and mediocre Matthew Hatton on March 5th in what will likely be an easy fight for Alvarez. What I what to know is why doesn’t Alvarez take on a much better fighter than Hatton like [...]

By Jim Dower: Unbeaten junior middleweight contender Erislandy Lara (15-0, 11 KO’s) destroyed Delay Raines (18-9-1) in a 1st round TKO tonight in Fantasy Springs Casino, in Indio, California. Lara flattened the badly over-matched Raines with a perfect right-left combination that not only put Raines down but made a mess of his nose.

LOS ANGELES, January 11 – Ghanaian knockout artist Bastie Samir has yet to let a professional opponent see the third round and after a stellar 2010 campaign, the 2008 Olympian will continue his march to the top of the middleweight division in undercard action at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California this Friday, January [...]

LOS ANGELES, November 10 – A former World Champion, an undefeated Cuban sensation and a trio of boxing’s most ferocious young punchers will take to the ring at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev. Saturday, Nov. 27, in separate undercard bouts leading up to the highly-anticipated Lightweight World Championship main event between [...]

By Dan Ambrose: In looking at the Boxrec earlier today, I noticed that unbeaten junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17 KO’s) is scheduled to fight unbeaten former Cuban national champion Erislandy Lara (13-0, 8 KO’s) on December 4th at the Honda Center, in Anaheim, California. I find this kind of hard to believe because [...]

By Jason Kim: Just as I expected, unbeaten junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17 KO’s) has no interested in taking on the dangerous former Cuban National champion Erislandy Lara (13-0, 9 KO’s), saying in his Twitter page “I said I’m done with amateurs. I want a fight. I don’t want to be involved in [...]

By Jason Kim: Undefeated junior middleweight and former Cuban National champion Erislandy Lara (13-0, 8 KO’s) wants to fight unbeaten junior middleweight contender Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17 KO’s), according to Philboxing.com. Apparently, Martirosyan mentioned his name on the internet and now Lara wants a piece of him in a bad way. Martirosyan has been looking [...]

Boxing results from the Monroe Civic Center in Monroe, Louisiana: Erislandy Lara TKO 1 Willie Lee Yordanis Despaigne UD 10 Frank Paines Yordenis Ugas TKO 2 Marqus Jackson

The final weights are in for tonight’s ESPN2 nationally televised “Battle on the Bayou” from the Monroe Civic Center in Monroe, Louisiana, featuring undefeated former amateur world champion Erislandy Lara (12-0, 7 KOs) and world amateur championships bronze medalist Yordanis Despaigne (6-0, 4 KOs). The event is promoted by Keeppunching Entertainment, Warriors Boxing and the [...]