WBA middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (31-3-3, 19 KOs) dominated Danny Garcia (37-4, 21 KOs), profiting from his inactivity and lack of measurement to cease him within the ninth spherical within the chief help bout on Saturday evening on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas.
Within the final seconds of the ninth, the 41-year-old Cuban Lara reached out and tapped Garcia with a left to the jaw, sending him to the canvas as if he’d been shot. Garcia received again up straight away because the spherical ended.
In between rounds, Garcia’s father let the referee, Thomas Taylor, know that they needed the battle to be stopped. the time of the stoppage was at 3:00 of spherical 9.
Garcia regarded like he didn’t need to be there tonight, as a result of he was staying on the surface the complete contest, not throwing punches. He was letting Lara peck away with single punched, largely jabs, and making an attempt to not get hit.
Each fighters landed within the single digits in each spherical, and it was apparent that this was a poor job of matchmaking by the promoters for this occasion. Nearly the complete undercard was like this, with the A-side fighters dominating overmatched opposition that didn’t belong inside the identical ring as them.
For essentially the most half, the group was affected person and selecting to not boo till the ninth spherical. The 36-year-old former two-division world champion Garcia hadn’t fought in two years, and he’d by no means fought at middleweight earlier than.
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