Mundine wants Erislandy Lara fight

lara455By Allan Fox: Former WBA super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (45-5, 27 KO’s) is targeting WBA interim junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KO’s) for a fight in the near future. Mundine sees Lara as the guy that separates him from the WBA title, and he wants to beat him as soon as possible if he can get the fight against the Cuban.

Lara is coming off one of the biggest wins of his career in beating former WBA 154 lb. champion Austin Trout last December in Brooklyn, New York. Trout didn’t have the power or the fighting style to give Lara any problems in that bout, and it was one of Lara’s easier fights of his career.

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Erislandy Lara is the only one capable of beating Mayweather

lara5By Dominic Sauboorah: After analyzing many of Floyd Mayweather’s fights it’s easy to say that a basic brawler or even a combination puncher is not the one to beat him. He will easily make those kinds of fighters miss and make them pay. He’s done it countless times over his career against Miguel Cotto, Victor Ortiz, Oscar De La Hoya, Ricky Hatton and so on. He’s even be able to out box guys that have tried to box him like Juan Manuel Marquez and Saul Alvarez.

People are saying Mayweather will struggle with fast punchers like Amir Khan but Mayweather’s a counter puncher and timing always negates speed. There’s only one man I can see beating Mayweather if not at least give him problems and that’s Erislandy Lara.

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Erislandy Lara waiting for his shot at Canelo Alvarez

lara454By Dan Ambrose: Rather than take on the dangerous interim WBA light middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KO’s) next and risk getting schooled as badly as he did in his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr., Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-1-1, 30 KO’s) is taking on the guy that Lara just knocked out in Alfredo Angulo (22-3, 18 KO’s) on March 8th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In the meantime, the Cuban Lara is wondering when he’ll get a chance to face the red-headed Canelo so that he can collect his scalp in the same way that Mayweather Jr. did by giving the 23-year-old fighter a major boxing lesson that he won’t soon forget.

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Could Lara be named as Mayweather’s opponent for the May 3rd?

05 Lara vs Trout IMG_2790(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Nick Hagen: WBA junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KO’s) could well be the next boxer to get the chance to take Floyd Mayweather Jr’s ‘0’ on the 3rd of May 2014.

Many fans including myself felt Lara put in a great performance against Austin Trout (26-2, 14 KO’s) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York last Saturday. The way that Lara picked his shots, used great ring movement, feints and showed elusive abilities, was fantastic to watch.

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Austin Trout not discouraged by loss to Lara

trout8By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-2, 14 KO’s) lost a disappointing 12 round unanimous decision last Saturday night to Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KO’s) at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York, USA. For Trout, this was his second consecutive loss after having been beaten by Saul “Canelo” Alvarez earlier this year. But what makes this defeat so much tougher on Trout was how easily he was beaten by Lara.

Trout didn’t take a bad beating or anything close to that, but he was definitely out-boxed by Lara. The judges scores showed that pretty clearly with Lara getting the victory by the scores of 118-109, 117-110, 117-110.

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Erislandy Lara targeting Canelo Alvarez next

05 Lara vs Trout IMG_2790(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: Newly crowned WBA World light middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KO’s) has set former WBA/WBC light middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for his next fight after beating former WBA champion Austin Trout (26-2, 14 KO’s) last Saturday night by a 12 round unanimous decision at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Trout didn’t throw enough punches, and this enabled Lara to box his way to a decision by the scores of 118-109, 117-110, 117-110. Trout wishes he could have the fight to do over again, because he would have done things much differently if given a second chance against the Cuban Lara.

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Trout faces Lara tonight for vacant WBA 154 lb title

13 All TV fighters  IMG_0715(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) will be going after his old title tonight against Erislandy Lara (18-1-2, 12 KO’s) in their fight for the vacant WBA 154 lb. tittle at the Barclays Center in Brookly, New York. Trout lost the belt in a 12 round defeat at the hands of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last April in a fight that many people felt was a toss up.

Even Floyd Mayweather Jr. felt that the only thing that kept Trout from winning the fight was a knockdown in the 7th. Trout fought a good fight, but was an unlucky with the open scoring and the venue of the fight taking place in San Antonio, Texas, where the crowd was predominately fans of the red-haired Canelo.

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Austin Trout ready to reinvent himself against Erislandy Lara

11 Lara and Trout IMG_0738(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) is ready to bounce back from his controversial decision from last April at the hands of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and take it out on Cuban Erislandy Lara (18-1-2, 12 KO’s) in their fight this Saturday night on Showtime at the Barclays Center, in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Trout doesn’t have to worry about open scoring or a huge pro-Lara crowd like he did last April with Trout fighting in front of 40,000 Canelo fans at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. As such, Trout can box Lara and fight without having to look over his shoulder at the inflated scoring the judges gave to Canelo.

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Austin Trout battles Erislandy Lara on Saturday for vacant WBA 154 lb. title

lara5By Dan Ambrose: Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) will be fighting for his old WBA junior middleweight title this Saturday night against Erislandy Lara (18-1-2, 12 KO’s) on a fight that will be televised by Showtime from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Trout, 28, lost his WBA title earlier this year in a 12 round decision loss to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last April in San Antonio, Texas.

Trout has shown a lot of interest in facing Canelo again, but with no luck in getting him to take the rematch. If Trout can win back his WBA title, he’ll be in a good position to face Canelo at some point in the future due to him holding that belt. Canelo will eventually need to turn to him unless he’s going to focus on fighting welterweights and specific middleweights.

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Trout: I could’ve done better against Mayweather than Canelo

canelo65By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-1, 14 KO’s) wasn’t impressed at all in the way that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. last September in a 12 round decision losing effort. Trout says Canelo’s performance not only made him look bad, but it also made himself look bad because he had lost to Canelo last April, albeit by a decision that Trout didn’t agree with.

Trout said this via Golden Boy Promotions twitter “I kept thinking ‘@caneloOfficial is making us both look bad’ during his fight with Floyd Mayweather. I could’ve done better.”

There’s no question that Trout would have done better than Canelo, because he wouldn’t have made the mistake of going to the ropes for breathers the way that Canelo did on numerous occasions and letting Floyd tee off on him from that position.

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