Who will Erislandy Lara 🇺🇸 fight next?
Short answer
Most likely next opponent: Tim Tszyu🇦🇺 (70%, reported).
Confidence: Medium · Updated (UAE time)
Forecast: likely next opponents NextSmash estimate
Each percentage is the estimated chance of being Erislandy Lara's next opponent. These are not chances of winning.
- 70%chance next opponentErislandy Lara beat Johan Gonzalez on 6 Dec 2025 (UD). Reported as nearly finalised for Lara's WBA middleweight title.December 2026, Australia (reported)
Field / other: 30%. This covers everyone not listed above.
- Last fight
- Win vs Johan Gonzalez · UD · 6 Dec 2025
- Confidence
- Medium (High = officially booked · Medium = credible report, sanctioning-body order, talks or a boxer's own claim · Low = model only)
- Boxing factors
- Mandatory challengers, vacated belts, rematch clauses, Riyadh Season / The Ring events, promoter and network ties, and crossover fights
- Last updated
- (UAE time)
Rankings note: belts are labelled by the body that awards them (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO or The Ring). The order of boxers on these pages is a NextSmash list, not an official ranking.
Erislandy Lara: frequently asked questions
When is Erislandy Lara's next fight?
No fight is officially booked as of 2 Oct 2026. The leading option is Tim Tszyu (December 2026, Australia (reported)).
Who did Erislandy Lara fight last?
Erislandy Lara beat Johan Gonzalez on 6 Dec 2025 (UD). Source: Wikipedia.
Who is Erislandy Lara likely to fight next?
NextSmash estimate of the next opponent: Tim Tszyu (70%), field / other 30%. These are chances of being the next opponent, not chances of winning. Updated 2 Oct 2026.
What is Erislandy Lara's record?
32–3–3 (wins–losses–draws, no-contests in brackets) after the fight on 6 Dec 2025, as listed on Wikipedia.
What titles does Erislandy Lara hold?
WBA middleweight. Each belt is named with the body that awards it.
Other middleweight boxers
- Aaron McKenna🇮🇪 · IBF middleweight · next: Denzel Bentley 70%
- Denzel Bentley🇬🇧 · WBO middleweight · next: Aaron McKenna 70%
- Carlos Adames🇩🇴 · WBC middleweight · next: Meiirim Nursultanov 55%
- Meiirim Nursultanov🇰🇿 · No world title listed · next: Carlos Adames 55%
- Chris Eubank Jr🇬🇧 · No world title listed · next: Edgar Berlanga 30%
More: Middleweight belts and next fights · All boxing
Sources
- Wikipedia: Erislandy Lara · record and last fight (revision 1362922440)
- The Ring: Report: Lara-Tszyu nearly finalized for December in Australia
- Fox Sports AU: Tim Tszyu to fight Erislandy Lara for WBA middleweight title in December
- Wikipedia: List of current world boxing champions (revision of 1 Oct 2026) · 1 Oct 2026
Percentages are NextSmash estimates from the reports and factors above, not facts and not betting advice. Records and last fights come from Wikipedia. We do not use BoxRec data. Anything we could not verify is left out.