Lara/Alvarez scorecards thread

[ruthless rocco]

The only wavering round for me was the 8th, but I gave it to Lara because he was doing what he wanted in terms of controlling the action (or lack of action). Canelo was following and winging a bit sloppily. The 12th I thought Canelo forced and won, but I think some of that came from questionable corner input for Lara. He was up and the corner pretty much told him so and so his caution along with Canelo's aggression having been told it was too close cost him the round. It was a better fight than I thought and there really should be a rematch. It was never going to be a barnburner, but a decent person should always give a rematch after a close fight.

Boxing is a business. The way this fight played out in terms of excitement, I doubt many would want to pay to watch it again

True, but that's not how fans should be looking at things. We approach it as people who appreciate boxing and shouldn't allow ourselves to see things through Oscar eyes (and they were twitchy, lizard person eyes last weekend. Shudder. Eww). Canelo can generate more excitement and thrills by fighting someone who will stand in front of him, but it doesn't avoid a non result such as this. When limitations are shown a determined proud fighter rematches to show that the limitations were not real. Mayweather for instance (I'm a long term critic, but credit where credit is due) is doing that for the second time. I just find it ironic that a fighter can say 'He runs and should learn to fight' and then in actuality then run away from a fight himself having shown limitations as a boxer. It's just asking for the decent thing to be done. Fight him again, improve your footwork, break his body, knock him out....then fight someone who will stand in front of you like set of pins for bowling alley kicks. But do the right thing. It is a business though, granted.

Lara said he was gonna take Canelo to school. Landing 10 lousy jabs more and running away for 2.5 minutes of each round isn't a boxing lesson.

The person who got schooled was Lara. He learned that you have to actually try to fight to win a fight.