Photo: Lacy and Calzaghe Staredown

ok time to inject a bit of realism in the thread, its well known i dislike calzaghe and like lacy however this fight is not far from a pick em i honestly only lean towards lacy by 60 65 %, yes he is strong aggresive, punches well but he does get caught and he has been rocked (imo by someone not particuarly good - Sheika), he breaks fighters down and wears them out, i know he clubbed scott to the canvas but its not like he had a concrete chin. Calzaghe has basically looked shit the last year or so but this is the fight where everything is on the line and when hes fought better oppponants he usually puts in a better performance. I do think that lacy will hurt cal early and stop him late but inbetween getting in the shots to keep joe honest he will get the nuts boxed off him and may get dropped himself (if sheika can hurt him imo so can cal) Ive seen alot of lacy and alot of cal and i nut hug no one ideally id love to see jeff come out and fuck cal right up for 5 or 6 rounds total domination or as near as but id be so shocked to see that this is going to be close hard fight whoever wins I think most of the crowd will be behind Jeff Lacy, other than the 50 or so Welsh fans making the long trip up to Manchester.

calzaghe all the way

ur grasping at straws here with this amatures thing. get the fuck over it, faggot. funny how ur the only one praising calfaggy's power and everyone else is saying how lacy fights like mike tyson (the 1988 mike tyson). Lacy fights NOTHING like Tyson, that's about as big an insult as you could throw at Mike. Tyson had speed, skill, defence and power that Lacy can only dream about. Name me one decent fighter that Lacy's blasted out as evidence of his "awesome" power. Every big fight I've seen him in he's only stopped his opponent due to pressure/volume.

ok time to inject a bit of realism in the thread, its well known i dislike calzaghe and like lacy however this fight is not far from a pick em i honestly only lean towards lacy by 60 65 %, yes he is strong aggresive, punches well but he does get caught and he has been rocked (imo by someone not particuarly good - Sheika), he breaks fighters down and wears them out, i know he clubbed scott to the canvas but its not like he had a concrete chin. Calzaghe has basically looked shit the last year or so but this is the fight where everything is on the line and when hes fought better oppponants he usually puts in a better performance. I do think that lacy will hurt cal early and stop him late but inbetween getting in the shots to keep joe honest he will get the nuts boxed off him and may get dropped himself (if sheika can hurt him imo so can cal) Ive seen alot of lacy and alot of cal and i nut hug no one ideally id love to see jeff come out and fuck cal right up for 5 or 6 rounds total domination or as near as but id be so shocked to see that this is going to be close hard fight whoever wins

More like the other way round, the fight is being held in England so Calzaghe may get robbed on the cards. Do me a favor and go back and read all your posts in this thread. Could you be any more of an indecisive flip flop? You're not just on the fence, you're dancing on it.

if it goes the distance..lacy will get cheated on score cards anyway...so he better win by KO More like the other way round, the fight is being held in England so Calzaghe may get robbed on the cards.

if it goes the distance..lacy will get cheated on score cards anyway...so he better win by KO

Calzaghe displayed more punching power in his first 20 fights than Lacy did, if you don't believe me then watch them for yourself. As for Ashira, he wasn't very good, but he was good enough to stop Lacy in the amateurs! although thers no evidence to this statement, more importantly, it doesnt matter at all this has no bearing on anything and had absolutly no relevance if your going to keep sticking up for joe, then put up a bet on him

This will b a great fight- Lacy will win if he pressure the fight and dont let his opponent box..

Or maybe the rest of the forum had never even heard of boxing back then. oh, i see how you think it is. you think ur the only one whos right and everyone else is wrong. oh boy, ive heard this shit before...

There's no way that Lacy lasts 12 rounds with Calzaghe, how open he is, if Calzaghe wins this he's winning it by knockout or stoppage. I'm guessing that this fight doesn't last two rounds. You have been ridiculed for this statement but I believe there is a bit of truth to it...just a bit. First off you should not say "no way Lacy lasts 12 rounds" this makes you sound just like the LAcy homers who have never seen Calzaghe scrap before...dont do that! As for the fight lasting 2 runds... I could see either guy getting whacked out of there that early based upon both men and how they like to fight. Both men are brawlers when it comes down to it...Lacy throws wild shots and just wants to war and Joe talks a good game before fights but he never uses his speed and boxing ability, the second he tastes Laccy Leather is the second he throws out the gameplan and starts attacking. This fight IS GOING TO BE FIGHT OF THE YEAR! Both men are going to come out throwing bomb after bomb...could someone get caught early...yup and that will be the only thing that could prevent this fight from being THE FIGHT OF THE YEAR!

maybe because ur the only person stupid enough to even want to watch calfaggy's early career. Or maybe the rest of the forum had never even heard of boxing back then.

Well maybe I'm the only one who's seen Calzaghe's early career. maybe because ur the only person stupid enough to even want to watch calfaggy's early career.

ur grasping at straws here with this amatures thing. get the fuck over it, faggot. funny how ur the only one praising calfaggy's power and everyone else is saying how lacy fights like mike tyson (the 1988 mike tyson). Well maybe I'm the only one who's seen Calzaghe's early career.

What kind of idiot would take a fight on those conditions? Eubank explained why.. he was about to travel to the US for 10 fights with Bob Arum at 175 to climb the rankings into the number one contender spot so that he could test his skills against Roy Jones (because Jones wouldn't give Eubank a shot, so Eubank was going to try to build his way back up again and get into the mandatory spot). But, then Eubank was offered a lot of money by Frank Warren to fill in for Steve Collins and an instant world title shot, he decided to take this offer because he knew that if he won a world title again then it would give Jones something to come to England and fight for. Eubank was going to go ahead with his 10 fights for Arum in the US after the Calzaghe beating, but again Frank Warren offered him a lot of money to fight Carl Thompson in a much-publicised jump to cruiserweight, so again Eubank thought he'd take the opportunity of an instant world title shot because if he won a world title again he'd be giving Jones something to come to England and fight for. He saw it as an easier way, but obviously it didn't work out and his eye injuries in the Thompson fights forced him to call it a day.

Calzaghe displayed more punching power in his first 20 fights than Lacy did, if you don't believe me then watch them for yourself. As for Ashira, he wasn't very good, but he was good enough to stop Lacy in the amateurs! ur grasping at straws here with this amatures thing. get the fuck over it, faggot. funny how ur the only one praising calfaggy's power and everyone else is saying how lacy fights like mike tyson (the 1988 mike tyson).

this post goes down in history as one of ur dumbest of dumb posts ever, juyjuy. calfaggy couldnt even KO evans ashira, a no name bum (dont give me this one handed bullshit, ever hear of danny williams?) and there is no way he'll be able to stop a true champion like jeff lacy. Calzaghe displayed more punching power in his first 20 fights than Lacy did, if you don't believe me then watch them for yourself. As for Ashira, he wasn't very good, but he was good enough to stop Lacy in the amateurs!

I think that Lacy would get a late tko that's a pimpin hat btw :p

There's no way that Lacy lasts 12 rounds with Calzaghe, how open he is, if Calzaghe wins this he's winning it by knockout or stoppage. I'm guessing that this fight doesn't last two rounds. this post goes down in history as one of ur dumbest of dumb posts ever, juyjuy. calfaggy couldnt even KO evans ashira, a no name bum (dont give me this one handed bullshit, ever hear of danny williams?) and there is no way he'll be able to stop a true champion like jeff lacy.

He took the Calzaghe fight at seven days notice, he had under a week to lose 25lbs bodyweight. ok, so hes just an absolute moron then