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opticald wrote:

observer1 wrote:Lacy has always been over-hyped.

I mean come on dude. It's only the biggest Calzaghe fans that actually make something of it

Exactly. Its hilarious how the Calzaghe fans try to make out that it was some great win. Lacy is awful and always has been. Calzaghe was lucky enough to get there first. Lacy is just one dimensional. As I said, he struggled to a 115-113 win over Omar Shieka before the Calzaghe fight.

G0mez wrote:The final round (no 10) was unbelievable.

I'm no professional boxer, but i swear i could have put it on Jones better than Jeff did.

You may think i'm exaggerating.. but sincerely i am not.

anyone else seen it ?

Shirow wrote:

G0mez wrote:The final round (no 10) was unbelievable.

I'm no professional boxer, but i swear i could have put it on Jones better than Jeff did.

You may think i'm exaggerating.. but sincerely i am not.

anyone else seen it ?

I think the performance of Lacy in the 10th was a result of taking the previous 9 rounds of painful, demoralising beating.
If anyone still wants to watch the fight go to http://www.BruiseTube.com

I really enjoyed it. Jones can look like superman against a limited slugger. I've never seen him fight inside so well and he very active by his recent standards.

Anyone who wants to watch it can go to http://www.BruiseTube.com

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.

Emerson Poncey Name Ghent wrote: It's all so black and white here.

Terry D wrote:I went for Lacy pre-fight, which shows how much Joe had slipped in my mind during his 'title' reign. Lacy was poop, admittably, but I thought he at least loved the sport, and...I should stop there, I cannot even begin to explain that pick. Jimmy Mac laughed at me, rightly so. I'd only been posting a month, I somehow managed to recover from that poor start.

Wrists wrote:The truth of it is over 50% of people, well-respected people picked Lacy to whoop Joe's arse.

The further truth is that Calzaghe ruined him with one of the best performances ever seen in a British ring.

Any other theory is revisionism - FACT

Interesting that no-one has picked up on the fact he almost had his shoulder reconstructed after Tsypko.

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

Terry D wrote:I went for Lacy pre-fight, which shows how much Joe had slipped in my mind during his 'title' reign. Lacy was poop, admittably, but I thought he at least loved the sport, and...I should stop there, I cannot even begin to explain that pick. Jimmy Mac laughed at me, rightly so. I'd only been posting a month, I somehow managed to recover from that poor start.

funnily enough, just before the event, I changed my mind on the Lacy Calzaghe fight, after months of laughing at everyone who said Calzaghe was going to get done over, I had last minute jitters, and picked Lacy.

I think I was still writing for Maxboxing at the time, and made a massive numpty of myself by going for Lacy in a line up of pundits.

opticald wrote:

Wrists wrote:The truth of it is over 50% of people, well-respected people picked Lacy to whoop Joe's arse.

The further truth is that Calzaghe ruined him with one of the best performances ever seen in a British ring.

Any other theory is revisionism - FACT

Heres another fact, Lacy went tooth and nail with omar Shieka and only won by a round on the scorecards, before the Calzaghe fight.

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.

Autobarn wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

Terry D wrote:I went for Lacy pre-fight, which shows how much Joe had slipped in my mind during his 'title' reign. Lacy was poop, admittably, but I thought he at least loved the sport, and...I should stop there, I cannot even begin to explain that pick. Jimmy Mac laughed at me, rightly so. I'd only been posting a month, I somehow managed to recover from that poor start.

funnily enough, just before the event, I changed my mind on the Lacy Calzaghe fight, after months of laughing at everyone who said Calzaghe was going to get done over, I had last minute jitters, and picked Lacy.

I think I was still writing for Maxboxing at the time, and made a massive numpty of myself by going for Lacy in a line up of pundits.

i do recall you writing that you wanted joe to win, for maxboxing, though

observer1 wrote:Calzaghe never ruined anyone.

observer1 wrote:Calzaghe never ruined anyone.

jamesmcdonnell wrote:

opticald wrote:

Wrists wrote:The truth of it is over 50% of people, well-respected people picked Lacy to whoop Joe's arse.

The further truth is that Calzaghe ruined him with one of the best performances ever seen in a British ring.

Any other theory is revisionism - FACT

Heres another fact, Lacy went tooth and nail with omar Shieka and only won by a round on the scorecards, before the Calzaghe fight.

So one bad night means a fighter was totally crap does it? Anyone can have an off night, he still won the fight, he didn't lose did he?

Phenomenal-Nutrition wrote:Basically Lacy is 168-175lbs answer to Gatti

Phenomenal-Nutrition wrote:Basically Lacy is 168-175lbs answer to Gatti

Twinkle Toes wrote:Calzaghe wrecked Lacy - You don't recover from beat downs like that, and his form post Calzaghe proves it.