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JEFF LACY: "I FEEL LIKE I WON THE JERMAIN TAYLOR FIGHT"
By G. Leon
GL: Can you give us some thoughts on your performance against Jermain Taylor and tell us what went wrong? "I think I did everything right. If you turn the volume off the television set, you'll see a totally different fight. I feel I pushed the action of the fight. Jermain Taylor held me every time I got close to him. He got shots in and so did I. But from the telecast, they're not talking about nothing I did and nothing I was throwing that was penetrating and that's what made it seem like a one-sided fight. If you turn the volume off your television and view the fight again, you'll see a totally different fight. I was the aggressor in the fight."
GL: Does that mean you feel you won the fight?
Jeff Lacy: "Yes. I feel like I won the fight."
GL: What were you doing that the judges weren't seeing?
Jeff Lacy: "I felt the judges were overlooking the aggressiveness that I was showing and the fact that he was holding the whole time."
GL: Do you feel you should have been credited with a knockdown?
JL: "Yes. Most definitely. I never touched his foot, I never stepped on his foot. We didn't step on each others feet the whole fight."
GL: So there was nothing about him that surprised you, you feel like you did what you had to do to get the victory and just didn't get it?
JL: "Exactly. I pressed the action of the fight from round one to twelve."
GL: How do you rate your performance?
JL: "In watching the fight I think there's some things I would have done differently, but I give myself at least a B+ for the performance I put on."
GL: You certainly don't sound discouraged at all, you sound lively. When might we expect to see you back in the ring?
JL: "The thing about it is Greg, I understand what they were doing. Jermain Taylor is a good fighter and I'm not taking anything away from what he did. I felt like Jermain fought a fight like that before. He has never come out and fought like that before and the fact of the matter is, I shut Jermain down. He's not going to tell you, but I shut Jermain down. You look at his performance against me and he was unable to do a lot of things that he normally does. I thought I lead the fight and I stopped Jermain from doing a lot of things he thought he was going to be able to do with me."
GL: Were you hurt at any point of the fight?
JL: "I was hurt a couple of times, but this is boxing, He caught me with a couple of shots that wobbled me, but I never took a backwards step."
GL: Does a rematch interest you or do you feel the powers that be won't ever let you take a decision over him?
JL: "I would love a rematch with Jermain Taylor. Would I get it due to the way I shut him down and prevented him from fighting his fight? I don't think I'll get a rematch. Should we fight again, I would go into it totally different. I wouldn't leave it in the judges hands next time. I had a lot of things going through my mind for the first couple of rounds, how do you hit a friend? I shouldn't have gotten that involved and just went off. He hit me and I hit him, but I didn't feel like any of us were in there to kill each other. What I came in there to do showed up, I just didn't get credit for it."
GL: What's the soonest we could expect you back?
JL: "As soon as Golden Boy can get me back in the ring."
GL: Who are some of the guys that interest you?
JL: "It doesn't matter. I'll let you be my promoter for this interview. You tell me."
GL: You know who people would love to see you fight, but it would be inapproriate for me to answer that since I represent Allan Green.
JL: "You know what though, Allan Green needs to prove himself at the same time. Allan Green isn't at the same level as a fighter like myself. Allan Green has to prove himself, I'm not going to just give somebody an opportunity. I would fight Allan Green and I have no problem fighting him, but at the same time he's going to have to prove himself to get it."
GL: Closing thoughts?
JL: "I won that fight, turn the volume off and you'll see a different outcome than what you saw on television."
By G. Leon
GL: Can you give us some thoughts on your performance against Jermain Taylor and tell us what went wrong? "I think I did everything right. If you turn the volume off the television set, you'll see a totally different fight. I feel I pushed the action of the fight. Jermain Taylor held me every time I got close to him. He got shots in and so did I. But from the telecast, they're not talking about nothing I did and nothing I was throwing that was penetrating and that's what made it seem like a one-sided fight. If you turn the volume off your television and view the fight again, you'll see a totally different fight. I was the aggressor in the fight."
GL: Does that mean you feel you won the fight?
Jeff Lacy: "Yes. I feel like I won the fight."
GL: What were you doing that the judges weren't seeing?
Jeff Lacy: "I felt the judges were overlooking the aggressiveness that I was showing and the fact that he was holding the whole time."
GL: Do you feel you should have been credited with a knockdown?
JL: "Yes. Most definitely. I never touched his foot, I never stepped on his foot. We didn't step on each others feet the whole fight."
GL: So there was nothing about him that surprised you, you feel like you did what you had to do to get the victory and just didn't get it?
JL: "Exactly. I pressed the action of the fight from round one to twelve."
GL: How do you rate your performance?
JL: "In watching the fight I think there's some things I would have done differently, but I give myself at least a B+ for the performance I put on."
GL: You certainly don't sound discouraged at all, you sound lively. When might we expect to see you back in the ring?
JL: "The thing about it is Greg, I understand what they were doing. Jermain Taylor is a good fighter and I'm not taking anything away from what he did. I felt like Jermain fought a fight like that before. He has never come out and fought like that before and the fact of the matter is, I shut Jermain down. He's not going to tell you, but I shut Jermain down. You look at his performance against me and he was unable to do a lot of things that he normally does. I thought I lead the fight and I stopped Jermain from doing a lot of things he thought he was going to be able to do with me."
GL: Were you hurt at any point of the fight?
JL: "I was hurt a couple of times, but this is boxing, He caught me with a couple of shots that wobbled me, but I never took a backwards step."
GL: Does a rematch interest you or do you feel the powers that be won't ever let you take a decision over him?
JL: "I would love a rematch with Jermain Taylor. Would I get it due to the way I shut him down and prevented him from fighting his fight? I don't think I'll get a rematch. Should we fight again, I would go into it totally different. I wouldn't leave it in the judges hands next time. I had a lot of things going through my mind for the first couple of rounds, how do you hit a friend? I shouldn't have gotten that involved and just went off. He hit me and I hit him, but I didn't feel like any of us were in there to kill each other. What I came in there to do showed up, I just didn't get credit for it."
GL: What's the soonest we could expect you back?
JL: "As soon as Golden Boy can get me back in the ring."
GL: Who are some of the guys that interest you?
JL: "It doesn't matter. I'll let you be my promoter for this interview. You tell me."
GL: You know who people would love to see you fight, but it would be inapproriate for me to answer that since I represent Allan Green.
JL: "You know what though, Allan Green needs to prove himself at the same time. Allan Green isn't at the same level as a fighter like myself. Allan Green has to prove himself, I'm not going to just give somebody an opportunity. I would fight Allan Green and I have no problem fighting him, but at the same time he's going to have to prove himself to get it."
GL: Closing thoughts?
JL: "I won that fight, turn the volume off and you'll see a different outcome than what you saw on television."
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