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Total Fights | 36 |
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Wins | 30 |
Losses | 3 |
Draws | 3 |
No-Contests | 0 |
Title Wins | 2 |
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Title Defenses | 9 |
Title-Fight KOs | 6 |
KO Wins | 18 |
KO Losses | 0 |
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15 years and eight months into his professional boxing career, Erislandy Lara has fought 36 times with 30 wins, 3 losses, and 3 draws.
Lara's boxing record is currently 30-3-3, which includes one world-championship elevation, two world-title wins, and nine successful title defense fights at two weight classes — super-welterweight and middleweight. He has a 50% knockouts-to-fights ratio with 18 of his total 36 fights being knockout wins, six of which were in title fights. Lara has never lost via knockout.
His latest fight was a 2nd round KO victory over Michael Zerafa on March 30, 2024. Lara successfully defended the middleweight WBA (Regular) title in this fight.
Some of Lara's best fights and notable victories include wins over Jan Zaveck, Michael Zerafa, Yuri Foreman, Terrell Gausha, Vanes Martirosyan, Alfredo Angulo, and Gary O'Sullivan.
# | Date | Age | Opponent | Res | Via |
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36 | Mar 30, 2024 | 40 | Michael Zerafa | Win * | KO2 |
35 | May 28, 2022 | 39 | Gary O'Sullivan | Win * | TKO8 |
34 | May 1, 2021 | 38 | Thomas LaManna | Win * | KO1 |
33 | Aug 29, 2020 | 37 | Greg Vendetti | Win * | UD |
32 | Aug 31, 2019 | 36 | Ramón Álvarez | Win * | TKO2 |
31 | Mar 2, 2019 | 35 | Brian Castaño | Draw * | SD |
30 | Apr 7, 2018 | 34 | Jarrett Hurd | Loss * | SD |
29 | Oct 14, 2017 | 34 | Terrell Gausha | Win * | UD |
28 | Jan 13, 2017 | 33 | Yuri Foreman | Win * | KO4 |
27 | May 21, 2016 | 33 | Vanes Martirosyan | Win * | UD |
26 | Nov 25, 2015 | 32 | Jan Zaveck | Win * | TKO3 |
25 | Jun 12, 2015 | 32 | Delvin Rodríguez | Win * | UD |
24 | Dec 12, 2014 | 31 | Ishe Smith | Win * | UD |
23 | Jul 12, 2014 | 31 | Canelo Álvarez | Loss | SD |
22 | Dec 7, 2013 | 30 | Austin Trout | Win | UD |
21 | Jun 8, 2013 | 30 | Alfredo Angulo | Win | TKO10 |
20 | Nov 10, 2012 | 29 | Vanes Martirosyan | Draw | TD |
19 | Jun 30, 2012 | 29 | Freddy Hernández | Win | UD |
18 | Apr 20, 2012 | 29 | Ronald Hearns | Win | TKO1 |
17 | Jul 9, 2011 | 28 | Paul Williams | Loss | MD |
16 | Mar 25, 2011 | 27 | Carlos Molina | Draw | MD |
15 | Jan 14, 2011 | 27 | Delray Raines | Win | KO1 |
14 | Nov 27, 2010 | 27 | Tim Connors | Win | TKO1 |
13 | Aug 18, 2010 | 27 | Willie Lee | Win | TKO1 |
12 | Jul 9, 2010 | 27 | William Correa | Win | TKO1 |
11 | Apr 2, 2010 | 26 | Danny Perez | Win | UD |
10 | Jan 29, 2010 | 26 | Grady Brewer | Win | TKO10 |
9 | Dec 12, 2009 | 26 | Luciano Perez | Win | UD |
8 | Sep 19, 2009 | 26 | Jose Varela | Win | KO1 |
7 | Jul 17, 2009 | 26 | Darnell Boone | Win | UD |
6 | May 22, 2009 | 26 | Edwin Vazquez | Win | TKO4 |
5 | May 2, 2009 | 26 | Chris Gray | Win | UD |
4 | Feb 20, 2009 | 25 | Keith Gross | Win | KO1 |
3 | Jan 9, 2009 | 25 | Rodrigo Aguiar | Win | TKO1 |
2 | Sep 12, 2008 | 25 | Deniss Aleksejevs | Win | TKO1 |
1 | Jul 4, 2008 | 25 | Ivan Maslov | Win | PTS |
* World-title fight
Erislandy Lara (The American Dream) is a 41-year old American professional boxer. He was born in Guantanamo, Cuba on April 11, 1983. He is a two-weight-class world champion and the current WBA middleweight world champion.
Lara made his professional boxing debut against Ivan Maslov at the age of 25 on July 4, 2008, defeating Maslov via 4 round PTS. He went on to win 14 more consecutive fights after the debut, which included 10 wins via stoppage.
He got elevated as the super-welterweight world WBA (Regular) champion at the age of 31 after 23 professional fights, and had his first title defense fight against Ishe Smith on December 12, 2014, and won via 12 round unanimous decision.
Lara has won two world titles at two weight classes. He was elevated as world champion once. For all the details about Lara's world title wins and defenses refer to the "Championships" section below.
Lara has had a total of three losses in his professional boxing career so far.
His most recent fight was a middleweight title defense bout against Australian boxer Michael Zerafa on March 30, 2024. Lara won the fight via 2nd round KO and defended his WBA (Regular) title. It's been 20 days since this fight.
Lara has had a total of 13 world-title fights till today, which includes winning two world titles and nine successful title defenses. He won 11 of these fights, lost one, and drew in one.
Erislandy Lara has fought for world titles in four fights and won two of these fights, both of them via stoppage. Till today, he has won two belts across two weight classes. He was elevated as world champion once, by WBA.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Won | Method |
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May 1, 2021 | Thomas LaManna | Middleweight | WBA (Regular)* | KO |
Aug 31, 2019 | Ramón Álvarez | Super-welterweight | WBA (Regular)* | TKO |
Erislandy Lara has had 10 world-title defense fights across two weight classes — super-welterweight (x8) and middleweight (x2). He won nine of them and lost only once.
Following is the table of his successful title defense fights, the next section has the fights where he lost his titles.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Defended | Method |
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Mar 30, 2024 | Michael Zerafa | Middleweight | WBA (Regular) | KO |
May 28, 2022 | Gary O'Sullivan | Middleweight | WBA (Regular) | TKO |
Aug 29, 2020 | Greg Vendetti | Super-welterweight | WBA (Regular) | UD |
Oct 14, 2017 | Terrell Gausha | Super-welterweight | WBA (Super) | UD |
Jan 13, 2017 | Yuri Foreman | Super-welterweight | WBA (Super) | KO |
May 21, 2016 | Vanes Martirosyan | Super-welterweight | WBA | UD |
Nov 25, 2015 | Jan Zaveck | Super-welterweight | WBA (Regular) | TKO |
Jun 12, 2015 | Delvin Rodríguez | Super-welterweight | WBA (Regular) | UD |
Dec 12, 2014 | Ishe Smith | Super-welterweight | WBA (Regular) | UD |
Erislandy Lara has lost one world-title defense fight, and lost one title in the fight.
Date | Opponent | Division | Titles Lost | Method |
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Apr 7, 2018 | Jarrett Hurd | Super-welterweight | WBA (Super) | SD |
Lara has fought a total of 36 times till today, which includes 13 world-title fights at two weight divisions. He has put on some great performances in these fights. These seven fights are the highlight of his career.
June 8, 2013: Erislandy Lara puts on the first remarkable performance of his career, defeating Alfredo Angulo via 10th round TKO.
December 12, 2014: Lara gets elevated as the WBA (Regular) super-welterweight champion and has his first world-title fight, and successfully defends the title against Ishe Smith winning the fight via 12 round unanimous decision.
November 25, 2015: Lara successfully defends the WBA (Regular) super-welterweight title against Jan Zaveck, winning the fight via 3rd round TKO.
May 21, 2016: Lara successfully defends the WBA super-welterweight title against Vanes Martirosyan, winning the fight via 12 round unanimous decision.
January 13, 2017: Lara successfully defends the WBA (Super) super-welterweight title against Yuri Foreman, winning the fight via 4th round KO.
May 28, 2022: Lara successfully defends the WBA (Regular) middleweight title against Gary O'Sullivan, winning the fight via 8th round TKO.
March 30, 2024: Lara successfully defends the WBA (Regular) middleweight title against Michael Zerafa, winning the fight via 2nd round KO.
Lara has knocked out 18 of his 36 opponents so far. His KO ratio currently stands at 50%. Of his total 30 wins, 18 of them have been via KO (60%).
Lara's first world-title win was the WBA (Regular) (vacant) belt at super-welterweight. He defeated Ramón Álvarez via 2 round TKO to win the title.
As of April 2024, Lara has won two world titles at two weight classes.
Lara has had a total of 10 title defense fights so far. He was successful nine times and lost one time.