Biggest hype job in recent memory: Lacy or Broner?

[The Big Dunn]

Gary Russell Jr.

This guy was being hyped up then gets completely outboxed by a guy with 1 pro fight. LOL.

Yeah, this is a great answer. Russell is a joke yet will get another title shot with jhonny Gonzalez.

[daggum]

Jeff Lacy. Funny how HBO gave him full backing vs Calazaghe like they did with Crawford vs Burns. Went into the bout as a betting favourite as well. Broner at least was a 3 weight world champ and is young enough to right his wrongs.

calzaghe lacy was on showtime. lacy was never a huge star. that was frank warrens marketing. showtime was nowhere near the level of hbo at the time and lacy spent most of his time on undercards. a guy like berto was much more popular and hyped than lacy. lacy would be comparable to a guy like quillin.

[IMDAZED]

Add Matthysse to that list. Posters on here were just embarrassing themselves gushing over him.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

calzaghe lacy was on showtime. lacy was never a huge star. that was frank warrens marketing. showtime was nowhere near the level of hbo at the time and lacy spent most of his time on undercards

@ "Frank Warren's marketing"

The Yanks marketed Jeff Lacy to be some killer. And not just dumb fanboys, respected writers all tipped him to beat Calzaghe and become a star

Hilarious how Americans now try to blame us for hyping Lacy.

[daggum]

@ "Frank Warren's marketing"

The Yanks marketed Jeff Lacy to be some killer. And not just dumb fanboys, respected writers all tipped him to beat Calzaghe and become a star

Hilarious how Americans now try to blame us for hyping Lacy.

what kind of hyped up fighter fights on jose luis castillo undercards? and on second rate showtime no less? he was a virtual unknown why can't you admit it? the writers picked him because calzaghe was seen as a senchenko type bum. not sure why you don't understand this. obviously calzaghe was better than advertised and lacy not as good as they thought but that doesn't mean he was some boxing star over here because he wasn't.

[Scott9945]

Obviously Broner is still an open book. But if you go off their two losses, it was Lacy for sure. Even with the knockdowns Maidana-Broner was much more competitive than Calzaghe-Lacy. Broner is still young enough to improve, while you could tell that Lacy hit the class wall very hard and wouldn't recover.

[Heavyfist]

Since Ortiz first put on gloves before even being an AM he was touted as the next Oscar.

[Dirk Diggler UK]

what kind of hyped up fighter fights on jose luis castillo undercards? and on second rate showtime no less? he was a virtual unknown why can't you admit it? the writers picked him because calzaghe was seen as a senchenko type bum. not sure why you don't understand this. obviously calzaghe was better than advertised and lacy not as good as they thought but that doesn't mean he was some boxing star over here because he wasn't.

I didn't say he was a star. There's a difference between being hyped up and being a star. Lacy was hyped by American writers, broadcasters and fans to become a superstar with or without Calzaghe. Wasn't he on the cover of some major magazine out in America?

Why can't you admit that he was heavily hyped by Americans? They were the ones who labelled him as Mike Tyson and a future star of the sport, not Frank Warren lol. You don't have to downplay everything when it comes to Calzaghe.

[joseph5620]

Add Matthysse to that list. Posters on here were just embarrassing themselves gushing over him.

Definitely. They think everybody has forgotten about that.

Lacy and Broner are not even comparable and it's a ****** question.

[Larry the boss]

Matthysee...lost everytime he stepped up and people just make excuse for him