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Looks like Calzaghe-Lacy will take place in front of 100,000 screaming Calzaghe fans!
Joe Calzaghe is all set to fight Jeff Lacy at the Millennium Stadium on February 4 - thanks to a massive guarantee to be paid to the American if Joe pulls out
IBF super-middleweight champion Lacy had demanded that his WBO counterpart must go to the States for the showdown, after the Welshman's broken hand scuppered the pair's planned November 5 meeting in London.
And, with Calzaghe pulling rank as the senior champion and refusing point-blank to travel, it seemed deadlock had been reached.
Now Lacy has changed his mind, following agreement that half a million dollars would be put in deposit for him and forfeited if the fight was cancelled.
'That's the only reason I'm going over there,' Lacy told a Florida newspaper.
'All they have to figure out is who's walking in the ring first and where the weigh-in will be.
'It's almost buttoned down.'
Lacy turned back to Calzaghe after rejecting more than a million dollars to meet light-heavy standout Antonio Tarver, the other big-name fighter in his sights.
'We don't need Tarver,' insisted Lacy.
'He's not a draw. He rode Roy Jones' coat-tails and got booed in his home town.'
The super-fight will headline the first boxing show at the stadium, now a viable proposition since the development of a method of cordoning off a section of the arena.
But, given recent controversy over the pitch, it will be something of a gamble given that Wales face Scotland eight days later in the first home encounter of this season's Six Nations.
And, with Calzaghe yet to throw a punch in training following the damage caused in his September win over Evans Ashira, there must be a doubt over whether he will be fit in time.
There is a fall-back date of March 4 - Lacy says he has agreed to either - which would be just a week before Wales entertain Italy in the Six Nations.
Joe Calzaghe is all set to fight Jeff Lacy at the Millennium Stadium on February 4 - thanks to a massive guarantee to be paid to the American if Joe pulls out
IBF super-middleweight champion Lacy had demanded that his WBO counterpart must go to the States for the showdown, after the Welshman's broken hand scuppered the pair's planned November 5 meeting in London.
And, with Calzaghe pulling rank as the senior champion and refusing point-blank to travel, it seemed deadlock had been reached.
Now Lacy has changed his mind, following agreement that half a million dollars would be put in deposit for him and forfeited if the fight was cancelled.
'That's the only reason I'm going over there,' Lacy told a Florida newspaper.
'All they have to figure out is who's walking in the ring first and where the weigh-in will be.
'It's almost buttoned down.'
Lacy turned back to Calzaghe after rejecting more than a million dollars to meet light-heavy standout Antonio Tarver, the other big-name fighter in his sights.
'We don't need Tarver,' insisted Lacy.
'He's not a draw. He rode Roy Jones' coat-tails and got booed in his home town.'
The super-fight will headline the first boxing show at the stadium, now a viable proposition since the development of a method of cordoning off a section of the arena.
But, given recent controversy over the pitch, it will be something of a gamble given that Wales face Scotland eight days later in the first home encounter of this season's Six Nations.
And, with Calzaghe yet to throw a punch in training following the damage caused in his September win over Evans Ashira, there must be a doubt over whether he will be fit in time.
There is a fall-back date of March 4 - Lacy says he has agreed to either - which would be just a week before Wales entertain Italy in the Six Nations.
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