Middleweight titleholder Erislandy Lara won a drab defense over Danny Garcia in a ninth-round technical decision that lacked both a decisive ending and a hint of action leading up to the not-so-big finish on Saturday's co-main event to the Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga fight at…
Thankfully, the fight did not go the full 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 corner retirement victory.
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Lara,…
LAS VEGAS – Erislandy Lara and Danny Garcia both claimed in the build-up to their middleweight title bout at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas that victory would assure their place in the International Boxing Hall of Fame. That was always a tough argument to…
WBA middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (31-3-3, 19 KOs) dominated Danny Garcia (37-4, 21 KOs), taking advantage of his inactivity and lack of size to stop him in the ninth round in the chief support bout on Saturday night at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.…
Erislandy Lara handed Danny Garcia his first stoppage defeat | Photo by Steve Marcus/Getty Images
Erislandy Lara handed Danny Garcia his first stoppage defeat. Erislandy Lara retained his WBA middleweight title with a pretty one-sided win over a listless…
Caleb Plant got caught, recovered, chipped away and landed a late knockout in a hard-fought win over Trevor McCumby on the Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga undercard Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
McCumby wobbled Plant at the end of the second round with a…
Rolando Romero halted a recent slide by going back to basics and minimizing his risk-taking to earn a unanimous decision win over Manuel Jaimes on the undercard of Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
There was a lot of…
Caleb Plant (23-2, 14 KOs) kept his career alive with a ninth-round technical knockout win over Trevor McCumby (28-1, 21 KOs) to claim the WBA interim super middleweight title in their undercard fight on Saturday night at theT-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
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LAS VEGAS – Caleb Plant bounced back from a knockdown to put a steady beating on Trevor McCumby, eventually stopping him at the very end of the ninth round of a hugely entertaining and skillful super middleweight contest on the Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga undercard…