Erislandy Lara
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Lara vs. Brewer, 2010
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| Real name | Erislandy Lara Santoya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rated at | Light middleweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reach | 75 in (191 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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April 11, 1983 Guantanamo, Cuba |
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| Stance | Southpaw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 28 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins | 24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Losses | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Draws | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Erislandy Lara Santoya (born April 11, 1983) is a Cuban American professional boxer. He has held the WBA light middleweight title since 2014 (promoted to Super champion in 2016) and the IBO light middleweight title since 2015. The Ring magazine ranks Lara as the best light middleweight in the world as of April 2017.
Lara is widely regarded as one of the most technically skilled fighters in boxing today. He was captain of the Cuban national amateur team, winning a gold medal in the welterweight division at the 2005 World Championships as well as three consecutive Cuban national championships from 2005 to 2007.
In 2003 and 2004, Lara lost four times against two-time world champion Lorenzo Aragon.
In 2005 after Aragon stepped down, Lara bested his countryman Yudel Jhonson Cedeno repeatedly and was sent to the world championships. There he avenged an earlier loss to Russian Andrey Balanov, beat American Boyd Melson, upset top favorite and Olympic champion Bakhtiyar Artayev (31–22), and won Gold against Magomed Nurutdinov (BLR).
Lara has lost twice to another Kazakh, Bakhyt Sarsekbayev. In their only meeting, Lara beat American world champion Demetrius Andrade 9–4.
Erislandy Lara was considered a favorite to win the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. However, in 2007, Lara and Guillermo Rigondeaux defected from Cuba during the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Some weeks later, he was caught by Brazilian authorities and returned to Cuba where he was banned from practicing boxing indefinitely.
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