Review: 2014-07-12, two very different style of boxing and two of the best boxers in the world do not always produce a good fight: Saul Alvarez vs Erislandy Lara gets two stars. Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez entered this fight with a professional Boxing record of 43-1-1 (31 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.1 light middleweight in the world, he is just 23 years old (8 years younger than Lara) and last year he suffered his only loss when he faced the undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr in a fight valid for the WBC and WBA light-Mw belts (=Mayweather vs Alvarez). ‘Canelo’ came back to victory in 2014 beating Alfredo Angulo (=Alvarez vs Angulo).
His opponent, Erislandy Lara, has an official record of 19-1-2 (12 knockouts) and he entered as the No.2 in the same weight class, he suffered his only defeat in 2011 when he faced Paul Williams (via majority decision Williams vs Lara), since then he has collected four victories and one draw, against Vanes Martirosyan (=Martirosyan vs Lara). Canelo vs Lara is the main event of the evening. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2014-07-12
Where: MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Division: light middleweight (154 lbs, 69.9 kg)
Alvarez’s previous fight: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez vs Alfredo Angulo
Lara’s previous fight: Erislandy Lara vs Austin Trout
Lara’s next fight: Erislandy Lara vs Ishe Smith
Alvarez’s next fight: Saul Canelo Alvarez vs James Kirkland
Official video:
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(Alternative free embeddable video hosted on Myvideo.ge)
(Highlights video)
Total garbage fight, was falling asleep for most of it. Lara was running for his life.
Can the announcers be more one sided towards Canelo? All Canelo has to do is sweat an its a miracle f boxing. smh
Lara does not diserve to claim his cuban origin as a fighter, he is not a fighter is a CLOWN , good for show-boat boxing en vegas only
4 stars from 31 votes? What on earth did people see in this ‘fight’ that I didn’t catch, even for a single second?
this fight was terrible, I gave it five stars because someone posted the original feed from Showtime. Considering this is a hard video to come by, five stars is appropriate.
You’re supposed to rate the quality of the fight, not the quality of the videos.
Lmao ikr
I had it 177-11 Lara. Canelo’s left hook to the body landed either behind the back or low 50% of the time. These shots hurt but don’t score. Know your boxing people.
You should get in the ring and compete before acting like an expert. Body shots are a lot worse than jabs.
Canelo did pretty well considering that Lara is an excellent boxer and left hand gifted fighter. However, it was all according to Canelo’s plan who never stop the attach and with Lara just doing defensive boxing and running like a chicken with the head off. Anyhow the fight was not great but at least it deserves 3 stars in my opinion.
I saw the full fight trough the AMATEUR video which was GREAT!!!!!.
It was a kind of professional work however I realized after that a third video was also available and operating well.
Thank you very much to the guy that posted it since most of the times we cannot seen PSEUDO professional videos which are removed from this site under claims that this is against the law.
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Such a bad fight Lara sold him self short he has noone to blame but himself obviously, OBVIOUSLY they were going to give the decision to Canelo if he ran all night he wasnt pumping a jab or flashing combinatinos just circles circles 1-2 more circles Lara dissapointed me Canelo just f*cking sucks