Originally posted by SilverMiles
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On this Day: Calzaghe dominates Lacy
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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.
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too bad he was scared to travel.... oh how quickly he overcame that fear once bhop & rjj got older.
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Originally posted by SilverMiles View PostI 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.
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.
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Originally posted by about.thousands View PostGlass 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.
I'm no advocate for Lacy but to completely ignore the circumstances are wrong. Lacy by no means was a push over.
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Originally posted by SilverMiles View PostI 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.
Jeff Lacy was never the same after he was exposed and sc****d a victory over Omar Sheika.
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Originally posted by -Antonio- View PostHe 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.
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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.
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Originally posted by IronDanHamza View PostSuffered the same faith
Jeff Lacy was never the same after he was exposed and sc****d a victory over Omar Sheika.
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