On this Day: Calzaghe dominates Lacy

[IronDanHamza]

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.

Except for the fact Mark Breland was a good fighter and Jeff Lacy wasn't.

[about.thousands]

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.

I know but why is this fight so talked about instead of the Hopkins fight? He came to America and got up off the canvas and beat Hopkins. I just don't get the celebration of the Lacy fight.

[Guest]

This was an all-time high/low in NSB.

While I thought the fight might be competitive, I was never impressed with Lacy... but I'd log into NSB after shaky performances and read how he was "top ten P4P".

I wonder, can you guess who 90% of NSB said would win this fight, most by early KO?

Hilarious.

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ill always wonder what a great fighter he would have been if his hands weren't destroyed and he didn't need to use that weird slappy punching style

speed and rhythm are off the charts just hard to watch the form of those punches

[Guest]

I have never understood why this fight gets so much attention. Lacy was a hype job going into the fight and proved to be a hype job with his subsequent losses. I have my su****ions about why. But people act like this is the first and only time a heavily favored hype job was exposed and beat.

While I think Lacy WAS overhyped, I don't know why people talk about what he did after this fight as if it had any standing on him.

Such a high % of boxing is mental as well as physical... when the guy was systematically taken apart over 12 rounds he was never going to be the same.

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This was an all-time high/low in NSB.

While I thought the fight might be competitive, I was never impressed with Lacy... but I'd log into NSB after shaky performances and read how he was "top ten P4P".

I wonder, can you guess who 90% of NSB said would win this fight, most by early KO?

Hilarious.

Anyone who "fits the profile" is instantly top 10 p4p around here

Sometimes.. It backfires

[Guest]

he just never rebounded from that lost. .

loss .

[Guest]

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.

The fights he's cited as struggling in during the Lacy bout are Sheika and Thompson.

I didn't think he struggled against Pemberton, but he missed a **** load, and it was clear that Pemberton let himself be counted out, having turned up, past his best, for a pay day.

I logged onto NSB and read how Lacy was around 6th P4P.