By Jim Dower: WBC junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo (30-0, 15 KOs) was at ringside last Saturday night to watch the unification fight between IBF World 154 lb. champion Jarrett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) and WBA Super World champion Erislandy Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs) at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Scott Gilfoid: Jarrett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) after beating Erislandy Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs) last night by a 12 round unanimous decision to become the IBF/WBA unified 154 lb. champion, he called out Saul Canelo Alvarez, Gennady Golovkin and Kell Brook as three guys that he would like to very much fight.
By Tim Royner: Jarett Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) sent long-time WBA Super World junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs) down to a 12 round unanimous decision defeat in a fight of the year candidate on Saturday night at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jarrett Hurd unified the 154-pound division with a 12-round split-decision victory over Erislandy Lara in an all-action fight Saturday on SHOWTIME before a sold-out crowd of 2,579 at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
By Jeff Aranow: IBF junior middleweight champion Jarrett ‘Swift’ Hurd (22-0, 15 KOs) won an exciting 12 round split decision win over WBA Super World junior middleweight champion Erislandy ‘The American Dream’ Lara (25-3-2, 14 KOs) on Saturday night in their unification fight at the Hard Rock Hotel & Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Allan Fox: Erislandy Lara and Jarrett Hurd will meet up tonight in the main event in their unification fight at 154 on ShowTime Championship Boxing at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lara (25-2-2, 14 KOs) will have his WBA Super World junior middleweight title up for grabs against the younger, taller, bigger, stronger high-volume puncher IBF World 154 lb. champion Hurd (21-0, 15 KOs), who is fighting at a very high level at this point in his career.
By Jim Dower: Erislandy Lara (25-2-2, 14 KOs) will be getting a large purse of $1 million in his unification fight this Saturday night on April 7 against IBF World junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd (21-0, 15 KOs) in their fight on Showtime Boxing at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
By Donavan Leonard: Often great moments can be overshadowed by happenings out of their control. The Houston Rockets were on their way to an NBA championship when O.J. Simpson hit the streets in a white Bronco. Harriet Quimby was the first female to fly across the English Channel as news of the Titanic sinking was circulating around the globe. And Erislandy Lara, holder of the WBA junior middleweight belt for nearly five years, will be facing the formidable IBF champion Jarett Hurd this weekend…while the boxing media is laser-focused on either the fallout from Clenelo-Gate or the future of the heavyweight division.
By Jim Dower: IBF World junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd (21-0, 15 KOs) has studied his opponent WBA Super World 154 lb. champion Erislandy Lara (25-2-2, 14 KOs) well, and he believes that he doesn’t handle pressure well, and he can be worn down, which is what his game plan is for this Saturday at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
SHOWTIME Sports will provide live streams of official fight week events in advance of this Saturday’s 154-pound World Championship Unification between WBA Super Welterweight Champion Erislandy Lara (25-2-2, 14 KOs) and IBF 154-pound World Champion Jarrett Hurd (21-0, 15 KOs). The fight will be televised Saturday, April 7, LIVE on SHOWTIME at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT from The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.