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By Cliff Rold - The promotional title for this weekend’s Light Heavyweight showdown is “Hook City” but the more apt title might be “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.” For years, Jones dreamt aloud about getting out of the game before it could do to him what it had so many others and yet as he enters middle age, here he still is, hanging on after four bad defeats in his last eight.
Lacy had bigger dreams once too. The 2000 Olympian worked his way to the moment when he could have seized control of the Super Middleweight landscape only to be thrashed by Joe Calzaghe. He’s never shown the promise he once did again, suffering a terrible shoulder injury and struggling for wins against average fare while losing in the lone major step up he’s had since. In his most recent bout, Lacy narrowly got by journeyman Eric Griffin. Griffin had lost two of three prior by knockout and has since been knocked out again. [details]
Lacy had bigger dreams once too. The 2000 Olympian worked his way to the moment when he could have seized control of the Super Middleweight landscape only to be thrashed by Joe Calzaghe. He’s never shown the promise he once did again, suffering a terrible shoulder injury and struggling for wins against average fare while losing in the lone major step up he’s had since. In his most recent bout, Lacy narrowly got by journeyman Eric Griffin. Griffin had lost two of three prior by knockout and has since been knocked out again. [details]
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