On this Day: Calzaghe dominates Lacy

[about.thousands]

I wouldn't call him a hype job, he was a obviously good fighter, an Olympian matter of fact. He just never rebounded from that lost. Happens to many good fighters.

Fact is Lacy handlers didn't do sufficient research into Calzaghe and thought he was a washed up light hitter, with a glass jaw. But you got to consider Tha fact that Lacy with just 20 odd fights was put in with a HOF that he obviously wasn't ready for.

Not saying Lacy was HOF bound but he had a lot more to offer than he did. He just fought a guy too good very early in his career and that lost destroyed his confidence.

Guys like Mark Breland suffered the same faith.

Glass jaw? Calzaghe had only been down twice in 40 fights. Breeland didn't live up to the high expectations but he won a title after his first loss. Lacy did nothing before his loss or after. He was a hype job.

[-Antonio-]

It's too bad Lacy turned out to be kind of an overhyped guy. The writing was on the wall. He had problems with some pretty average fighters. That was not the case before this fight. Im pretty sure Lacy was a 2-1 favorite, which is absurd looking back on it. This version of Calzaghe would have beaten a lot of great fighters. He punched with a lot more power.

[bigjavi973]

too bad he was scared to travel.... oh how quickly he overcame that fear once bhop & rjj got older.

[-Antonio-]

I wouldn't call him a hype job, he was a obviously good fighter, an Olympian matter of fact. He just never rebounded from that lost. Happens to many good fighters.

Fact is Lacy handlers didn't do sufficient research into Calzaghe and thought he was a washed up light hitter, with a glass jaw. But you got to consider Tha fact that Lacy with just 20 odd fights was put in with a HOF that he obviously wasn't ready for.

Not saying Lacy was HOF bound but he had a lot more to offer than he did. He just fought a guy too good very early in his career and that lost destroyed his confidence.

Guys like Mark Breland suffered the same faith.

He had struggled in stretches against guys like Scott Pemberton. I was all aboard the Lacy hypetrain. I thought he was a monster. But I was blind to the hype. It turns out he was too sllw, too flat footed. He should have fought more like a Joe Fraizer. He was just too muscle bound.

Now what turned him from overhyped to just downright average/journeyman was him tearing his rotator cuff. His left hook was never the same. Hell he rarely even threw it in fights.

[-Antonio-]

too bad he was scared to travel.... oh how quickly he overcame that fear once bhop & rjj got older.

He had always wanted to fight Hopkins. Roy on the other hand, seems like he never wanted any part of him.

[SilverMiles]

Glass jaw? Calzaghe had only been down twice in 40 fights. Breeland didn't live up to the high expectations but he won a title after his first loss. Lacy did nothing before his loss or after. He was a hype job.

But you gotta look at through the eyes of Lacy's handlers. Calzaghe was dropped twice by two relatively unknown fights and Lacy was perceived as the next Mike Tyson. So if those guys could drop Calzaghe, Lacy should be able to knockout Calzaghe.

I'm no advocate for Lacy but to completely ignore the circumstances are wrong. Lacy by no means was a push over.

[IronDanHamza]

I wouldn't call him a hype job, he was a obviously good fighter, an Olympian matter of fact. He just never rebounded from that lost. Happens to many good fighters.

Fact is Lacy handlers didn't do sufficient research into Calzaghe and thought he was a washed up light hitter, with a glass jaw. But you got to consider Tha fact that Lacy with just 20 odd fights was put in with a HOF that he obviously wasn't ready for.

Not saying Lacy was HOF bound but he had a lot more to offer than he did. He just fought a guy too good very early in his career and that lost destroyed his confidence.

Guys like Mark Breland suffered the same faith.

Suffered the same faith

Jeff Lacy was never the same after he was exposed and sc****d a victory over Omar Sheika.

[SilverMiles]

He had struggled in stretches against guys like Scott Pemberton. I was all aboard the Lacy hypetrain. I thought he was a monster. But I was blind to the hype. It turns out he was too sllw, too flat footed. He should have fought more like a Joe Fraizer. He was just too muscle bound.

Now what turned him from overhyped to just downright average/journeyman was him tearing his rotator cuff. His left hook was never the same. Hell he rarely even threw it in fights.

Is the Scott Pemberton the actual fight he struggled in? I never saw the fight but boxrec has it recorded as a 2nd round KO.

[doom_specialist]

If Lacy was Calzaghe's defining fight, then he has a pretty crappy legacy. I personally thought that the win over Hopkins was exponentially better than Lacy.

[SilverMiles]

Suffered the same faith

Jeff Lacy was never the same after he was exposed and sc****d a victory over Omar Sheika.

Both guys became victim of their hype. Doesn't matter if Breland did a tiny bit more after losing. In the grand scheme of things both men became merely footnotes in the history of boxing.