Fortunately, the struggle didn’t go the total 12 rounds. Tonight on the Canelo-Berlanga card in Las Vegas, WBA middleweight titlist Erislandy Lara stopped former 140-pound king Danny Garcia with a ninth-round nook retirement victory.
Lara, the oldest present world champion within the sport at age 41, dropped Garcia with a left hand to the pinnacle within the ninth, and Angel Garcia pulled his son out, not permitting Danny out for the tenth spherical.
Lara of Cuba is now 31-3-3(19). Garcia of Philadelphia falls to 37-4(21).
In brief, tonight’s struggle was each duller than uninteresting, with barely any motion save the late knockdown scored by lefty Lara – and the struggle proved to be a tragic affair, because the as soon as formidable, fan-favorite Garcia seemed a shell of himself. It actually must be time for “Swift ” to make a fast exit from the game he as soon as lit up in fashion.
As for Lara, he had himself a straightforward evening, together with his crisp and common proper jab mainly profitable the struggle for him. Lara boxed at his tempo, Lara doing just about what he wished to do. Garcia tried, at instances, but he was unable to get any kind of a foothold within the bout.
Lara remains to be fast at age 41, and naturally, Garcia’s inactivity didn’t assist his trigger. Lara boxed fairly fantastically at instances, albeit at a watered-down tempo, and he by no means actually needed to get out of second gear. However once more, the speaking level right here is that this the top of Garcia? It’s at all times unhappy and miserable to see a as soon as nice fighter (nice? Does Garcia match the invoice? One other article for one more time, possibly) present up with nothing left within the tank, and that is what we bought with Danny tonight.
Garcia certainly heads to the exit door. Whereas Lara, a nightmare for anybody to struggle and likewise what he can name a “boring ” fighter, faces the robust process of entering into additional huge fights and paydays.
Tonight’s struggle did no one any favors – not Garcia, not Lara, and never our paying followers.
