Daniel Jacobs and Erislandy Lara middleweight sensations and "THE FUTURE OF BOXING" dual signed (silver sharpie) Lonsdale glove.

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Native of the same Brownsville, Brooklyn neighborhood that produced former heavyweight champions Mike Tyson, Riddick Bowe and Shannon Briggs, Daniel Jacobs is a middleweight with a heavyweight punch, as well as the speed of a lightweight and the smarts of a veteran way beyond his 21 years. It's why boxing insiders have raved about him for years, and now fans around the USA are starting to see why "The Golden Child" is one of the sports brightest hopes.





Erislandi Lara Santoya (born April 11, 1983). The Cuban southpaw is the 2005 amateur world champion at welterweight.

In 2003 and 2004 he lost four times against double world champ Lorenzo Aragon.

In 2005 after Aragon stepped down Lara bested his countryman Yudel Jhonson Cedeno repeatedly and was sent to the world championships. There he avenged an earlier loss to Russian Andrey Balanov, beat American Melson Boyd, upset top favourite and Olympic champion Bakhtiyar Artayev (31-22) and won Gold against Magomed Nurutdinov (BLR).

The only fighter who has beaten him twice in the last years is another Kazakh: Bakhyt Sarsekbayev. In their only meeting he beat American world champ Demetrius Andrade 9:4.

He defected in 2007 together with superstar Guillermo Rigondeaux. Some weeks later he was caught in Brazil and he was returned to Cuba.

He then successfully defected in 2008 on a speed boat and is now in Hamburg, Germany where he will join former Olympic champions Odlanier Solis, Yan Barthelemy and Yuriorkis Gamboa in the Arena Box-Promotion stable. Lara made news headlines last year when he and two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux disappeared before the PanAm games but were later returned to Cuba by Brazilian authorities. Lara, banned from boxing in Cuba, then escaped the country again on a speedboat to Mexico from where he received entry to Germany. He made his pro debut on Arena's July 4 card in Istanbul. Rigondeaux remains in Cuba, where he has not boxed since.