Hypothetical match-up: Jeff Lacy vs Bernard Hopkins

[big train express]

the one youve all been waiting for. who takes it? prime vs prime.

classic bout between speed, power, and accuracy vs crafty, intelligent boxing ability.

[dempseyfire]

Is this your idea of a bad joke?

[big train express]

call it what you want, but you and i both agree that jeff lacy struggles with fighters quick on their feet and good hand speed. hopkins has neither. weve never seen lacy with a technician like hopkins, but at the same time we havent seen hopkins with a young, heavy handed smw.

imo this would have been a potential upset.

[big train express]

styles make fights my friend.

[crusader]

call it what you want, but you and i both agree that jeff lacy struggles with fighters quick on their feet and good hand speed. hopkins has neither. weve never seen lacy with a technician like hopkins, but at the same time we havent seen hopkins with a young, heavy handed smw.

imo this would have been a potential upset.

Hopkins has more speed than Lacy and has very good footwork. BHOP is in a completely different league and would easily outclass Lacy en route to winning every minute of the fight.

[Jpreisser]

Hopkins would have dominated Lacy. I don`t think Lacy`s strengths would have made an impact on Hopkins. Seeing as Hopkins is an excellent defensive fighter. He would have won the same way he always wins.

[dempseyfire]

Hopkins' handspeed is in another league to Lacy. And Bernard can box . . Lacy can't. End of story.

[J]

one sided beatdown.

nothign further.

[Idisagree]

This is not even a contest. Hopkins something like 120-108. Lacy's power tends to be over-rated, not that it would have made any difference anyway.

[Diamond WEAPON]

Hopkins' handspeed is in another league to Lacy. And Bernard can box . . Lacy can't. End of story.

Not to mention that if one was comparing the MW Hopkins to the SMW Lacy, it's a somewhat skewed argument, because had Hopkins moved up to 168 to fight Lacy, he would've been less drained and likely would've done even worse to him than he did to a drained Tarver, because Lacy was no more fluid than Tarver was that night.