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[Spacey1991]

Glenn Johnson is past his prime too so it kinda cancels each other out.

To be fair though, when Roy went out of his prime it affected him more than some other fighters.

[El Chicano]

I think this... if Jones was 22 years old and someone never saw him before, he was a new up and comer who fought Lacy last night in a step up fight... and fought exactly as he did last night with the blistering hooks, the confidence, the ability to relax under fire, the BODY SHOTS, the ring intelligence, etc etc etc...they would say "by the time that kids career is over, he will be the greatest fighter ever." Now it is what it is. Jeff is obviously past his prime but he is still Jeff Lacy....no one has ever done that to him before, not even Calzaghe...I dont care if a guy is "shot" he can still punch hard if thats what he does...Jeff's POWER didnt leave him...and Roy is much older anyway than Jeff is...has had a TON more fights and was stopped twice, one of them a VICIOUS KO...so he has a ton more miles on him than Jeff does...to look as good as he did last night, even if u hate him, that's impressive, man...

Very well said, props on the post!

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Very well said, props on the post!

Thanks a lot, my man

[Walter Kovacs]

I think this... if Jones was 22 years old and someone never saw him before, he was a new up and comer who fought Lacy last night in a step up fight... and fought exactly as he did last night with the blistering hooks, the confidence, the ability to relax under fire, the BODY SHOTS, the ring intelligence, etc etc etc...they would say "by the time that kids career is over, he will be the greatest fighter ever." Now it is what it is. Jeff is obviously past his prime but he is still Jeff Lacy....no one has ever done that to him before, not even Calzaghe...I dont care if a guy is "shot" he can still punch hard if thats what he does...Jeff's POWER didnt leave him...and Roy is much older anyway than Jeff is...has had a TON more fights and was stopped twice, one of them a VICIOUS KO...so he has a ton more miles on him than Jeff does...to look as good as he did last night, even if u hate him, that's impressive, man...

do u think Jerry Springer is behind it?

[THE REED]

one of the best weekends i ever had

[Don Johnson]

I agree, impressive, but understand that Jeff was not elite quality after the beating he got from Joe Calzaghe. And while Roy look superb in every aspect if both were in their respective primes I’d still see the same outcome because of Lacy’s difficulty to adapting to other fighters styles. No knock against Roy mind you, he did his thing, just another angle of observation on my part.

Peace.

He was never elite, he gets exposed by people with mediocre boxing ability. I don't think much has changed about him, he's always been slow with his hands and feet. The only thing done changed is his left hook. In the later rounds he is more open for the right hand because he seems unable to hold his left hand up to block.

[ßringer]

Agreed.

But let's also take note that Jeff Lacy was never really deserving of the hype that surrounded him even pre-alzaghe. Because he was struggling to win certain fights even before Joe got his hands on him.

It took a true elite like Calzaghe to embaras and expose him, and I think it's unfair for people to say "he's never looked the same since" because honestly ; he never looked that special to begin with.

[street bully]

Agreed.

But let's also take note that Jeff Lacy was never really deserving of the hype that surrounded him even pre-alzaghe. Because he was struggling to win certain fights even before Joe got his hands on him.

It took a true elite like Calzaghe to embaras and expose him, and I think it's unfair for people to say "he's never looked the same since" because honestly ; he never looked that special to begin with.

I agree. Roy looked great, but he was supposed to.

[Don Johnson]

Agreed.

But let's also take note that Jeff Lacy was never really deserving of the hype that surrounded him even pre-alzaghe. Because he was struggling to win certain fights even before Joe got his hands on him.

It took a true elite like Calzaghe to embaras and expose him, and I think it's unfair for people to say "he's never looked the same since" because honestly ; he never looked that special to begin with.

this is exactly what I'm talking about. I believe he had loads of trouble with Omar Sheika, Who was never anything more than a clubfighter. Anybody with mediocre boxing skill and decent hand and footspeed would make Jeff Lacy look terrible. Epifanio Mendoza, Vitali Tsypko, Peter Manfredo Jr. , and Otis Griffin(the reality TV "star") all gave Lacy all he could handle and all these guys barely crack the top 10 in supermiddle.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

Roy was supposed to look good, sure. but two things for me...1 is that NO ONE could have dreamed he would look THAT good...and if u told someone the night he got KO'd by Johnson and the night he lost so widely in the third Tarver fought OR the night he fought Joe, if you said RJ will come back and look really really something in a stoppage of Jeff Lacy, who would have believed u?