Erislandy Lara retains the WBA middleweight title by stopping Danny Garcia in nine

About 120 seconds into the Erislandy Lara-Danny Garcia WBA middleweight title fight, a theme began to appear. Or rather was heard. A chorus of boos rained on the fighters as the bout unfolded to a throaty disapproval that did not stop for the next eight rounds.

Lara made a third successful defense of the WBA middleweight title, which was fought at a 157-pound catchweight, dropping and then stopping Garcia for the first time in his career in the ninth round on the Canelo Alvarez-Edgar Berlanga...