exittored wrote:Hilarious...
Let's see, you've only been posting here a week.
If you had of been here at the time of lacy/Clazaghe you'd have seen a lot of respected posters who couldn't call the fight one way or the other, in fact a lot went against Calzgahe.
Although they have since revised their view
I maintain Calzaghe ruined Lacy.
This is so funny...Fighting over whether Lacy was ever any good or not :)
Who are these so called RESPECTED members who couldn't call the fight one way or another....well they sure as poop aint respected by me.
Lacy made his name knocking out and in some cases struggling with C Level old Fighters like Syd Vanderpool, Omar Sheika, Rubin Williams, Robin Reid and Scott Pemberton.....Even the Lacy of today would pretty much beat those level of Fighters now so its not that he's moved backwards, he just isn't good enough to compete at Elite Level with the Likes of Calzaghe, Taylor and RJJ.
Having watched 3 of Lacy's Fights(Richard Grant, Omar Sheika and Robin Reid) before he went in against Calzaghe, i never thought he had a Chance but i'd admit even i didnt think it'd be a 12 rd beatdown.
Basically that was the night Calzaghe proved he was a A list Fighter and Lacy proved he was always going to be nothing more than a B list fighter who can beat C list Fighters but nothing more.
Hindsight is 20-20 my friend, love to hear what you were saying before the fight.
Lacy absolutely annihilated Reid, who had one of the best chins in the division, and had never been down as a pro, and I believe not as an amateur either.
Reid was past his best, but nobody expected Lacy to just trundle right over him, he knocked Reid down four times, and Reid was so upset about being stopped, he was literally crying. Whatever way you look at it, that was an impressively destructive performance, and that swayed a lot of people.
Remember, that Reid had been shafted not so long before in a title tilt at Sven Ottke, he was pissing all over Ottke for 6 rounds, and but for a blatantly crooked referee, who was on a backhander if ever I saw one, he would have prevailed.
