Erislandy Lara

Weights: Lara 153.6, Zaveck 153.2

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lara2(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Tim Fletcher: WBA World junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (21-2-2, 12 KOs) successfully made weight on Tuesday for his title defense against 39-year-old #8 WBA Jan Zaveck (35-3, 19 KOs) on Wednesday night on Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN from the Hialeah Park Race Track, in Hialeah, Florida.

The 32-year-old Lara weighed in at 153.6 pounds for his third and possible final defense of his WBA title. Lara has made noise recently about wanting to move up to the middleweight division to campaign as a 160lb fighter and go after the top names in the division like Gennady Golovkin, Peter Quillin, Daniel Jacobs, Billy Joe Saunders and Andy Lara.

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Erislandy Lara moving to 160, targeting Golovkin

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lara665By Chris Williams: With 32-year-old WBA World junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (21-2-2, 12 KOs) having exhausted all the possibilities of big money fights in the 154lb division after his controversial 12 round split decision loss to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last year in July 2014, Lara is reportedly going to be moving up to the middleweight division [160] after his title defense this month against 39-year-old #8 WBA Jan Zaveck (35-3, 19 KOs) on Wednesday, November 25th on Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN at the Hialeah Park Race Track, in Hialeah, Florida.

Lara wants to target IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, as well as the other top fighters in the 160lb division like Peter Quillin, Miguel Cotto, Canelo, Andy Lee, Daniel Jacobs and Billy Joe Saunders.

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Erislandy Lara defends against Jan Zaveck on PBC on ESPN on 11/25

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lara444By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (21-2-2, 12 KOs) will be defending his WBA 154lb title next month against 39-year-old #8 WBA, #10 WBO contender Jan Zaveck (35-3, 19 KOs) in a fight on November 25th on Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN from the Hialeah Park Racing and Casino in Miami, Florida.

The fight will be televised on a Wednesday. In terms of a match-up, it’s not a very good one. For boxing fans who remember Keith Thurman’s fight against Zaveck in 2013, they’ll remember how it was a very easy one for the 5’7” Thurman.

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Erislandy Lara to fight on 11/14 on ESPN

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lara56666By Dan Ambrose: IBO/WBA World super welterweight champion Erislandy Lara (21-2-2, 12 KOs) will be defending his WBA 154lb title against an opponent still to be determined on Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN on November 14tth at a still to be determined venue in Miami, Florida.

Since the 32-year-old Lara has had back to back voluntary defenses against Delvin Rodriguez and Ishe Smith since losing a non-title fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in July of 2014, you would think that it’s time for Lara to get around to defending against his WBA mandatory challenger.

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Erislandy Lara has the shot at beating Golovkin, says DeCubas

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1-EW5G1460By Allan Fox: Boxing manager Luis DeCubas believes that of all the fighters in the 154 and 160lb divisions, Erislandy Lara is the guy that would have a very good chance of beating WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin if he could get the Kazakhstan fighter to face him.

DeCubas thinks that Lara could do the same thing to Golovkin that Lara did to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in their fight last year in July. Canelo won that fight by a disputed 12 round split decision, but DeCubas felt that Lara had done enough to get the victory due to Canelo landing only eight head shots in the entire fight.

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Lara vs. Rodriguez: Where was the killer instinct from Erislandy?

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1-EW5G1040By Gerardo Granados: Last Friday night, WBA light middleweight belt holder Erislandy Lara defeated a limited Delvin Rodriguez by a 12 round unanimous decision by the scores of 120-107 (3). I scored it 120–106 in favor of Lara.

It was no surprise to see that Rodriguez was tailor made for Lara to look impressive, but what really surprised me was the lack of killer instinct showed by Erislandy. In one corner you have a boxer with great ring IQ, exquisite boxing technique, fast hands, good power and experience but also one with a high tendency to fail to please the audience. On the other corner a brave fighter who tried his best but was simply fighting against a superior boxer.

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Should Golovkin fight Erislandy Lara next?

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EW5G0966(Photo credit: Lucas Noonan/Premier Boxing Champions) By Allan Fox: With WBA junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (21-2-2, 12 KOs) calling out WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0, 30 KOs) for a fight, this could give Golovkin an interesting fight for August or possibly September if Lara’s adviser Al Haymon will allow the 32-year-old Lara to take the fight. Ever since Lara’s loss to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last year, Lara has been very vocal about wanting a big fight.

Recently, Lara has started calling out Golovkin for a big fight. It might not be the huge fight that Golovkin is looking for, but it would still give him the chance to show the difference between himself and Canelo, who struggled badly to beat Lara last year in July.

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Lara wants Mayweather, Cotto and Golovkin

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1-EW5G1040-2By Dan Ambrose: After his one-sided 12 round unanimous decision over a totally outclassed #12 WBA contender Delvin Rodriguez (28-8-4, 16 KOs) last Friday night at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois, WBA World junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (21-2-2, 12 KOs) says he wants to fights with Floyd Mayweather Jr., Gennady Golovkin or Miguel Cotto.

Whether the 32-year-old Lara will get any fights of those kind would seem to very unlikely. Lara’s loss to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last year took a lot of steam out of the Cuban fighter’s career, even though he barely lost the fight. I don’t like Lara’s chances of beating Mayweather, Golovkin or Cotto. Lara throws mainly left-hand pot shots, and he doesn’t have amazing hand speed or power. Mayweather would easily out-box him, and Golovkin and Cotto would very likely knock Lara out in one-sided fights.

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Lara decisions Rodriguez; Beterbiev stops Johnson

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By Jim Dower: In a dull mismatch, WBA World junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (21-2-2, 12 KOs) easly beat fringe contender Delvin Rodriguez (28-8-4, 16 KOs) by a one-sided 12 round unanimous decision on Friday night on Spike TV on Premier Boxing Champions from the UCI Pavilion in Chicago. The final judges’ scores were 120-107, 120-107 and 120-107.

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Lara vs. Rodriguez and Beterbiev vs. Johnson tonight on PBC

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1-5H6A1201By Allan Fox: WBA junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (20-2-2, 12 KOs) will be looking to put on a virtuoso performance tonight on Spike TV against Delvin Rodriguez (28-7-4, 16 KOs) at the UIC Pavilion, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Rodriguez, who is not young at 35, is going to need to roll back the years to have a chance of winning this fight.

Lara, 32, isn’t invincible, as we saw in his fights against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Vanes Martirosyan, but it takes a better fighter than Rodriguez to make him look mortal.

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