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Pros and disadvantages of Terenca Crawford vs. Erislandy Lara Grab

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1 year ago

September 17, 2025

Image: The Pros and Cons of a Terence Crawford vs. Erislandy Lara Title Grab

Sergio Mora says that Terence Crawford should go to 160 and fight Erislanda Lara, so that his WBA Middle Wweight title will become a six -time world champion. He believes that victory for Crawford over Lara (31-3-3, 19 KO) would put him in the same class as Roberto Duran, Hank Armstrong and Sugar Ray Robinson.

Lara has not fought for a year since winning in the ninth round of Danny Garcia on September 14, 2024. In addition, Lara is 42 years and will be April 43 on April 11. Given his age, it would be hard to attract fans who subscribe to Netflix in huge numbers to watch the clash between him and Crawford.

Even worse, the fight against Erislanda Lara is even worse if Crawford decides to take a longer circle of victory for a year or longer, instead of coming back at the end of 2025, if Crawford waited until September 2026, before he fought again, Lara will be a year older and it will be 43. It will be 43.

Striving for six divisions

“Crawford can pick up the Lar Erislande belt to become a six-time world champion,” said boxing analyst Sergio Mora to Chris Mannix channel About who is who can fight next. “Crawford, $ 50 million he created, will never do it again.”

Financial problem

It would probably be a dramatic reduction in remuneration that Bud would deal with if he were to fight Lara, not a rematch with Canelo or a risky fight with David Benavidez. This reduction of salary can make Crawford reluctant to fight Erisland. Mora thinks it’s a great idea, not Crawford.

“Terenka Crawford would put a kind of beating on Erislanda Lara like the one she will never forget. He is not Erislanda Lara, who fought Canelo in 2014. I don’t know who puts cash on this fight,” said Mannix.

Lara, the decreasing form

Lara looked tardy, stiff and aged in her last fight with Danny Garcia in September 2024. She did not look like a warrior he was when he lost to Canelo in the controversial 12-rounded divided decision on July 12, 2014.

Crawford does not do any favor, rejecting the fight with David Benavidez, because it may be the only option except for the Canelo rematch, in which he can get a huge payment. Turki Alalahikh would not mention Benavidez after the fight, if he did not see him as the most inverable fight for Crawford.

Options outside Lara

David Benavidez
Dmitriry Bivol
Jaron Ennis
Canelo Alvarez

Last updated 17.09.2025

Boxing

Robert Garcia Analyzes Tim Tszyus Odds Against Erislandy Lara | Boxing News

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2 hours ago

November 7, 2026

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"Robert Garcia Analyzes Tim Tszyu's Odds Against Erislandy Lara | Boxing News"

Tim Tszyu seeks to become Australia’s third multi-divisional boxing world champion when he competes for Erislandy Lara’s WBA middleweight title next month, and ahead of the action, trainer Robert Garcia has offered his thoughts on the fight.

Tszyu lost his WBO super-welterweight title in a defeat to Sebastian Fundora back in 2024 and twice failed to reclaim 154lb honours, both against Bakhram Murtazaliev and in a rematch with Fundora.

Since then, the Aussie has stepped up to middleweight and scored a career-best win over Errol Spence Jr earlier this yearand now, the 32-year-old could join lead trainer Jeff Fenech and Liam Paro as his nation’s third two-weight world champion, if he can trump 43-year-old.

Speaking with ProBox TVRobert Garcia, who trains a potential future Tszyu opponent in Vergil Ortiz, admitted that he is leaning towards the home fighter, but noted that Lara will not be phased by competing in the challenger’s backyard.

“We can probably lean towards Tim Tsyzu because he is fighting at home, in front of his hometown, but Lara is not the fighter that brings in a lot of fans following him.

“He doesn’t have a following, he is not one that is going to sell out arenas, so even if it is in the United States, it is likely that most of the people are going to be [there] for Tim Tszyu because Australians do travel and Tim Tszyu has a lot of fans.

“For Lara, going to Australia is like going to Las Vegas or going to New York because he never has that following anyways. Anywhere he goes, he is going to be against the crowd. So, I think for him it is going to be one of those performances where it doesn’t make a difference if he is going to Tim Tsyzu’s hometown.”

Tszyu-Lara takes place at the Cbus Super Stadium in Queensland, Australia on Sunday 13 December.

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Malik Scott Predicts Knockout Victory for Jai Opetaia in Upcoming Fight

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3 hours ago

November 7, 2026

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"Malik Scott Predicts Knockout Victory for Jai Opetaia in Upcoming Fight"

Deontay Wilder’s former head coach Malik Scott has delivered a knockout prediction for the American’s upcoming showdown with Jai Opetaia.

The pair will square off at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on December 11, with Opetaia making his heavyweight debut on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua.

Despite him being the naturally smaller man, many are favouring the Australian – a former two-time world cruiserweight champion – to defeat his 10-years-older opponent.

It is, after all, generally accepted that Wilder has declined significantly since his trilogy bout with Furywho survived two knockdowns and scored an 11th-round knockout in their 2021 encounter.

Back then, Wilder had just joined forces with Scott, his former opponent, and the pair maintained their fighter-trainer relationship through subsequent defeats against Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang.

With Wilder now operating under different coaches, though, Scott has shared a balanced view of the Opetaia fight with Seconds Out.

“The fight’s got dynamite written all over it. Jai Opetaia is very dangerous, but he’s a smaller man that’s been hurt by smaller men than Deontay, slower men than Deontay.

“I’ve never seen Opetaia get hit by nobody like Deontay; I’ve seen Deontay get hit by bigger punchers than Opetaia. [But] one thing we can expect in this fight is a knockout.

“The name of the fight is ‘bad intentions’ – at least that’s what I’m calling it, because that’s what they share in common. What they share in common is mentality – they both are trying to hurt you.”

While he stopped short of predicting a winner, it is perhaps telling that Scott, despite his relationship with Wilder, has not explicitly favoured him to win by knockout.