Josh Warrington vs Mauricio Lara

[Spicoli]

I love upsets but Lara almost looked apologetic in corner. 2021 upset of early on

[ryanman]

Geezer should have been stopped in 3/4. He was let go whereas lara wouldn't have been.

[Denilson3.0]

The Covid upsets continue

Does Hearn now exist to provide Mexican and Mexican American fighters with British cannon ?

Time and time again everyone get's gassed on a boxer's "0"

I've always said there's too much hype around british fighters. You literally hear about them before they go pro. Warrington got a serious wakeup.. oops.. I mean a goodnight call.

Perfect example of a bird in the hand is better than one in this bush. Never give up your title for nothing, especially if the plan is to move up in weight when you can't crack an egg at your own weight and that's the weird thing about Warrington his style is a 100% a pressure fighter but he’s no heavy handed Triple G. It clearly worked at a high level for him though, just not elite.

Actually scratch that I don't think Lara's elite. He just beat someone who wasn’t as good as the hearniacs tried to make him out to be. No power at all and I have not even started on Howard Foster.

But well done Lara. This is the reason why a lot of these Mexican fighters aren’t babied early in there careers so what they may take an L or two but they’ll learn from it and be ready for the big ones

[erics44]

👆Cummon man, Warrington wasn't a hype job he had beaten some very good fighters who had beaten some very good non British fighters

I think maybe you have confused him with someone else?

[Dark Lord Al]

Warrington as a light punching come forward fighter was always going to have limited shelf life at the top.
He has some good wins, however I thought he lost to Abdul Awad .
Pressure fighters often have limited time at the top , light punching ones more so.

[erics44]

He lost most of the rounds to kid galahad and was fortunate against kiko martinez

He did deserve to win against Selby and Frampton tho which can't be sniffed at

[TonnnnUK]

Don't think Warrington has ever been overhyped. He clearly works and worked very hard to get to where he did. Not a big puncher, that didn't stop him reaching the top of a maybe somewhat limited division.

As a sign of the lack of hype for Josh, I think he was underdog against Lee Selby and certainly was against Frampton, and I personally didn't pick him to win either of fights. Credit to him on those victories and I think it is quite rare that a fighter with such a small ko% becomes a world champion.

He may have come through a few close/lucky decisions also, against decent level fighters no less, it happens especially when he was the A side, with a pretty big following making him more marketable and profitable to the promoter!