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By October of last year, Jeff Lacy had accomplished more than any of his peers on the 2000 U.S. Olympic Boxing team, as he picked up a major championship belt with an eighth round stoppage of 168-lb. contender Syd Vanderpool.
With his victory Saturday over Robin Reid, Lacy has set up a November showdown to unify his IBF title with Joe Calzaghe’s WBO, a major match-up with the consensus top super middleweight. Pending Calzaghe winning his own bout in September, Lacy will have punched and earned his way to a prompt ascent (as opposed to the past praising of Jermain Taylor as middleweight heir apparent by default, due mainly to Bernard Hopkins’s approaching retirement).
This week’s edition of Fighting Words is all about working for the future, from Jeff Lacy’s wipeout of his supposed sternest test to date, to The 10 Count’s perspective on pugilists such as James Toney, Wladimir Klitschko, Lamon Brewster, all of whom have bouts in the coming months that mean plenty for their careers. [details]
With his victory Saturday over Robin Reid, Lacy has set up a November showdown to unify his IBF title with Joe Calzaghe’s WBO, a major match-up with the consensus top super middleweight. Pending Calzaghe winning his own bout in September, Lacy will have punched and earned his way to a prompt ascent (as opposed to the past praising of Jermain Taylor as middleweight heir apparent by default, due mainly to Bernard Hopkins’s approaching retirement).
This week’s edition of Fighting Words is all about working for the future, from Jeff Lacy’s wipeout of his supposed sternest test to date, to The 10 Count’s perspective on pugilists such as James Toney, Wladimir Klitschko, Lamon Brewster, all of whom have bouts in the coming months that mean plenty for their careers. [details]