Erislandy Lara

Erislandy Lara is one of those fighters who never quite got the mainstream spotlight he deserved, and honestly that bothers me a little. Growing up in Guantánamo, Cuba — a place most Americans only know from one grim association — he came up through Cuba's legendary amateur system, defected, and then quietly built one of the most technically sophisticated careers in boxing. The guy held world titles at super welterweight and middleweight, spanning nearly a decade at the top level, and his slick southpaw style frustrated opponents and casual fans alike because it looks almost too controlled to be exciting. But that's the art of it. Winning the 2018 Ali-Frazier Award from the Boxing Writers Association tells you everything: his peers and the press knew exactly how good he was, even when the pay-per-view crowd didn't fully catch on.

Name (English)

Erislandy Lara

Name (Japanese)

エリスランディ・ララ

Reading

えりすらんでぃ・らら

Born

April 11, 1983 (age 43)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

Origin

Guantánamo, Guantánamo Province, Cuba

Height

175 cm

Occupation

boxer

Awards & achievements

• WBA World Middleweight Champion
• WBA World Super Welterweight Champion
• WBA World Middleweight Champion (secondary)
• WBA World Super Welterweight Champion (secondary)
• IBO World Super Welterweight Champion
• 2018 Ali–Frazier Award

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/erislandylaraofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/Laraboxing
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erislandy%20Lara
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q725502

Tags

• Guantánamo Province
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.