{"id":39941,"date":"2014-07-12T16:53:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T23:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=39941"},"modified":"2014-07-12T16:53:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T23:53:59","slug":"alvarez-lara-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=39941","title":{"rendered":"Alvarez-Lara: Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=39942\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39942\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39942\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CANELO-VS.-LARA.jpg\" alt=\"CANELO VS. LARA\" width=\"186\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a>By Joseph Rodriguez<\/p>\n<p>In a sport dominated by the dollar it\u2019s not often a revenue generating marquee fighter will risk a loss without a reward. Canelo Alvarez could have made the same amount of money Saturday night fighting anyone but he selected Erislandy Lara citing his desire to fight the best competition period.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It\u2019s not as if the fight just came to Lara, he constantly applied pressure via social media and even crashed Canelo\u2019s post Angulofight press conference to present his challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters are as risk averse as all people, an increase in risk must be compensated with an increase in return. Saturday night\u2019s match up between\u00a0Alvarez and\u00a0Lara stands as an objection to this rule.The top two fighters in the 154 lb. fighter will square off to establish division supremacy. Although Floyd Mayweather is a current titleholder in the division, he has since moved down to the Welterweight division and is unlikely to move back to defend his title. It will be interesting to see a how Canelo\u2019s punching power and pressure will fare against Lara\u2019s elusiveness and speed.<\/p>\n<p>Canelo has stated \u201cThere\u2019s no doubt, I\u2019ll be the one who makes the fight. He\u2019ll be backing up looking to counter punch me. There\u2019s no doubt that I\u2019m going to be the one who makes the fight, and that\u2019s what we prepared for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With two contrasting styles something will eventually have to give, I just hope the give is toward an explosive action filled fight as opposed to acounter punching chess match.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction:<\/p>\n<p>Lara will start off strong counter punching behind his straight right while Canelo will invest early in to the body. Toward the mid rounds Canelo will apply effective pressure choosing to throw in combination, forcing Lara to engage more than he would like to. This end result will be a 9<sup>th<\/sup> rd. TKO victory for Canelo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honor &amp; Glory Fight Card<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TV lineup for the Golden Boy Promotions card Saturday night (Showtime PPV, 9 ET) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Main Event: Junior middleweights: Canelo Alvarez (43-1-1, 31 KOs) vs. Erislandy Lara (19-1-2, 12 KOs), 12 rounds<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Co-Main Event: Featherweights: Abner Mares (26-1-1, 14 KOs) vs. Jonathan Oquendo (24-3, 16 KOs), 10 rounds<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Junior lightweights: Juan Manuel Lopez (34-3, 31 KOs) vs. Francisco Vargas (19-0-1, 13 KOs), 10 rounds<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Junior welterweights Johan Perez (19-1-1, 13 KOs) vs. Mauricio Herrera (20-4, 7 KOs), 12 rounds, for Perez&#8217;s interim title<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joseph Rodriguez In a sport dominated by the dollar it\u2019s not often a revenue generating marquee fighter will risk a loss without a reward. Canelo Alvarez could have made the same amount of money Saturday night fighting anyone but he selected Erislandy Lara citing his desire to fight the best competition period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9959,9960],"class_list":["post-39941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canelo-alvarez","tag-erislandy-lara"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39943,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39941\/revisions\/39943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}