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by David P. Greisman - Jeff Lacy stood in a dimly lit room in Connecticut the day before his most recent fight, a long time separated from the years that made his name, a name that had long since diminished in value.
“I’m still here,” Lacy told an interviewer from the EsNews video channel, railing against the doubters and critics who he said had no idea what fighters like him go through.
“I’m not going back to where I was,” he said at another point. “I’m going to make it better than ever.”
He was asked about the next evening, about his bout with undefeated light heavyweight Sullivan Barrera.
“You’re going to see the best of me that I can give you tomorrow night,” he said.
Lacy was knocked down in the first round and battered for much of the 11 minutes it took until the fight came to an end in the fourth.
The saddest part is that Lacy was right. That is pretty much the best he can give anymore.
He is now fodder for prospects, a former titleholder whose past accomplishments, however distant, somehow add value to the records of the men who beat him. It is why he was on the undercard of a Fox Sports 1 broadcast last year, lasting barely five minutes with Umberto Savigne. And it is why he was on the undercard of ESPN2’s “Friday Night Fights” last week against Barrera, a prospect promoted by Main Events.
A press release Main Events put out prior to the broadcast included the kind of language that tends to be used to describe opponents who are expected to lose.
“Undefeated Cuban Sensation Sullivan Barrera Takes on Veteran Jeff Lacy,” read the headline within.
“Lacy, 37, made his professional debut in 2001 and remained undefeated for over five years,” read part of the press release, glossing over the precipitous decline that had taken place in the eight and a half years since he suffered his first loss. The only one of Lacy’s fights since then to merit mention was a decision last December over Timothy Hall Jr. There was no context given, nothing saying that Hall was just 9-18. Context is not the job of a promoter. [Click Here To Read More]
“I’m still here,” Lacy told an interviewer from the EsNews video channel, railing against the doubters and critics who he said had no idea what fighters like him go through.
“I’m not going back to where I was,” he said at another point. “I’m going to make it better than ever.”
He was asked about the next evening, about his bout with undefeated light heavyweight Sullivan Barrera.
“You’re going to see the best of me that I can give you tomorrow night,” he said.
Lacy was knocked down in the first round and battered for much of the 11 minutes it took until the fight came to an end in the fourth.
The saddest part is that Lacy was right. That is pretty much the best he can give anymore.
He is now fodder for prospects, a former titleholder whose past accomplishments, however distant, somehow add value to the records of the men who beat him. It is why he was on the undercard of a Fox Sports 1 broadcast last year, lasting barely five minutes with Umberto Savigne. And it is why he was on the undercard of ESPN2’s “Friday Night Fights” last week against Barrera, a prospect promoted by Main Events.
A press release Main Events put out prior to the broadcast included the kind of language that tends to be used to describe opponents who are expected to lose.
“Undefeated Cuban Sensation Sullivan Barrera Takes on Veteran Jeff Lacy,” read the headline within.
“Lacy, 37, made his professional debut in 2001 and remained undefeated for over five years,” read part of the press release, glossing over the precipitous decline that had taken place in the eight and a half years since he suffered his first loss. The only one of Lacy’s fights since then to merit mention was a decision last December over Timothy Hall Jr. There was no context given, nothing saying that Hall was just 9-18. Context is not the job of a promoter. [Click Here To Read More]
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