Calzaghe's victory over Lacy looking HIGHLY OVERRATED right about now.

[Manny_P]

....Yeah, you may very well be right. Anyway, who is that tasty little piece in your avy?

thanks, im glad you see it my way.

that's Camilla Belle. She's ****in hot. Watch her movie "When a Stranger Calls".

[DiegoFuego]

I told everybody a long time ago that victory was as overrated as it gets. I love being right.

[Shanus]

I told everybody a long time ago that victory was as overrated as it gets. I love being right.

You always look back and say "Yes, I predicted this, I'm right.. again".

Care to prove it?

[Easy-E]

I do agree that Joe's victory over Lacy doesnt look nearly as good as it once did.

[DiegoFuego]

You always look back and say "Yes, I predicted this, I'm right.. again".

Care to prove it?

Ask Raesaad how many times I've said Lacy was done after the Calzaghe fight. He got mad pissed everytime I said it, which had to be at least 20 times.

[macman]

I'd put it among Calzaghe's best performances - he dominated basically every minute of every round against a dangerous, undefeated puncher, & did it easily.

Probably the best fight he was in was against Charles Brewer, the former IBF champ.
Calzaghe won by a pretty wide margin, but Brewer was always in the fight
- a dangerous puncher with a much better defence & a wider array of punches than Lacy.
Brewer had lost his title in a contraversial decision to Ottke & really prepared well for this fight in order to get back a title.

Other top performances were against Byron Mitchell, another former champ who was a bit like Lacy in some ways
- one punch KO artist who was a little limited, although still had a better range of skills.
Mitchell knocked Calzaghe down for the first time in his career, & Calzaghe got up & put him away in the same round - exciting stuff.

The hammering of Sheika was pretty impressive too.

PS. everyone seems to writing Tsypko off as as a nobody, & as far as I'm aware he's a pretty serious up & coming contender who's faced some pretty good opposition.
Didn't see the Lacy fight, but thought it was a dangerous choice when I heard about it
- for a first fight back after a bad beating & a longish lay-off I'd thought they'd get a really easy journeyman for Lacy in order to build his confidence back up.
Sounds like they should of - most of the decent Russian/Eastern European fighters have very good fundamentals, & tend to be very tough.

[jangeorg]

the only thing that is over rated is lacy

And Calzaghe

[jangeorg]

clazage victory is overated now, but joe is still a beast 19 defences, bring on taylor

Yes beats 19 over the hill and bum fighter

[SHB]

Yes beats 19 over the hill and bum fighter

I see the counselling for your addiction isn't going so well.

I logged on this morning knowing what would be written about Lacy after hearing about how he bombed on his return. As anyone who has ever been in the ring knows, boxing is more mental than physical - if you're mentally shot then you haven't got a chance. There was a chance that Lacy could have used his beating by Calzaghe as a motivational thing ... sadly the opposite (as is often the case) happened. Saturday's fight only serves to show Lacy's state of mind now ... it has absolutely no bearing on 9 months ago.

I've seen it so many times, and it's still sad - especially as Lacy seems a very genuine bloke.

[Hydro]

Man you're a b****. That's like telling Buster Douglas his win over Tyson meant nothing.

Cause Tyson basically ****** after that.

Typical, I've already pegged you a PBF, PAC nuthugger.

Why can't people learn to be objective.

Tyson at least beat some beltholders 6 years after Tokyo, and twice beat a top contender in Ruddock a year after Tokyo. When did Lacy ever beat a contender as highly regarded at super middleweight as Ruddock was at heavy in the early 90s?