Erislandy Lara is one of the most popular and richest Boxer who was born on April 11, 1983 in Guantánamo, Cuba. Professional boxer from Cuba who has been recognized as having held the World Boxing Federation’s middleweight light title. In 2017 He was the top middleweight athlete in the world according to The Ring magazine.
He was given the opportunity to face In 2016, he had the opportunity to fight Yuri Foreman..
Erislandy Lara Santoya (born 11 April 1983) is a Cuban-American professional boxer. He has held the WBA (Regular) super welterweight title since 2019. Previously, he held the WBA super welterweight title from 2014 to 2018 (promoted to Super champion in 2016), and the IBO super welterweight title from 2015 to 2018. As of September 2019, he is ranked as the world’s second best active light middleweight by BoxRec, third by The Ring magazine and fifth by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board.
In 2003 and 2004, Lara lost four times against two-time world champion Lorenzo Aragon.
He married Yudi Lara.
