The end of Jeff Lacy

[Hulk]

Many would say the end happened the night he fought Calzaghe, or drew with Manfredo or finally got stopped and embarrassed against old Roy Jones.


But, the literal end seems to have come last night against possibly the biggest light heavy I've ever seen. He's tied with David Telesco for sheer size.


That guy would be a handful for anyone outside of the top 5 or 6 light heavies I'd imagine.


He was more than a handful for 37 year old Lacy. Poor bastard. That's it.

[armin]

Lacy is 37 already, holy crap? remember him being the young guy comin up, shit flies by, but yeah the end came a long time ago

[Spicoli]

That was hard to watch last night. Brutalized.

[Hulk]

That was hard to watch last night. Brutalized.

It was sad. But, Jeff had no problem doing it to others on his way up. Circle of life.

[ykdadamaja]

Lacy never really was. LOLOL.... sure, he was a guy with better than average power. But after that, what else did he really have?

Lacy is/was the kind of fighter that, while he looked intimidating, all you had to do was punch at him... he wasn't a good counter puncher, and he was slow to work inside. Once you kept him at bay for half of the round with a good jab- doesn't have to be a Larry Holmes kinda jab, just a "good" jab- and the other half mix up moving around the ring, circling him and throwing combinations when he moves in, he had no answer.

Calzaghe and Jones did that to him with ease. Lacy was good when he got off on you, but never could beat a decent fighter that came to fight, let alone a top-tier fighter, because of those same deficiencies.

[Hulk]

Lacy never really was. LOLOL.... sure, he was a guy with better than average power. But after that, what else did he really have?

Lacy is/was the kind of fighter that, while he looked intimidating, all you had to do was punch at him... he wasn't a good counter puncher, and he was slow to work inside. Once you kept him at bay for half of the round with a good jab- doesn't have to be a Larry Holmes kinda jab, just a "good" jab- and the other half mix up moving around the ring, circling him and throwing combinations when he moves in, he had no answer.

Calzaghe and Jones did that to him with ease. Lacy was good when he got off on you, but never could beat a decent fighter that came to fight, let alone a top-tier fighter, because of those same deficiencies.

He beat some decent fighters who came to fight. Pemberton, Reid, Sheika, Rubin Williams. Winning his title against Vanderpool also comes to mind.

[Vendettos]

Haha... Good!

Jeff Lacy was a joke. Calzaghe exposed him and he fell apart.

[Gandalf]

Lacy was overrated on the other side of the Atlantic, but it was injuries that made him a one armed fighter. He looked completely shot in the footage above. I don't think he really landed a punch.

[AdamGB]

He was short for a super middle, what is he doing up at light heavy?!

[Vendettos]

He was short for a super middle, what is he doing up at light heavy?!

I'd guess age caught up to him.

He hasn't been the most active.

[cyclone]

Lacy was overrated on the other side of the Atlantic, but it was injuries that made him a one armed fighter. He looked completely shot in the footage above. I don't think he really landed a punch.

Nobody here cared enough about Lacy to overrate him.

[Beanflicker]

He was never the same after the shoulder problems and the Calzaghe loss.

This should be the end of him, because this wasn't a case of him just getting caught by a big puncher, he was never in the fight. He shows every sign of a washed up fighter. He's gun shy, timid and his reflexes are gone. He was getting hit with slow, sweeping right hands at will.

[Ron Swanson]

Lacy's physique fooled some into believing untrooths. He wasn't the monstrous puncher he looked to be.

He narrowly got by a few average(at the time Lacy fought them) fighters. His whole career was intended to be a trick. If you remember Calzaghe had been having tons of hand problems, Lacy's handlers were counting on those problems to decide the fight. They didn't think for a second he could out fight Joe C, they couldn't be that dumb.

[ykdadamaja]

Lacy's physique fooled some into believing untrooths. He wasn't the monstrous puncher he looked to be.

He narrowly got by a few average(at the time Lacy fought them) fighters. His whole career was intended to be a trick. If you remember Calzaghe had been having tons of hand problems, Lacy's handlers were counting on those problems to decide the fight. They didn't think for a second he could out fight Joe C, they couldn't be that dumb.

This. When I think of Lacy, my mind runs on the notion that he is a successful B-Class fighter who snuck in, got a title and/or notoriety. Sorta like what they were trying to do with Seth Mitchell in the heavies, or what they did do with Arturo Gatti.

Gatti followers just fail to realize that while Gatti had heart, he really was an average fighter... he punched hard, but most of his ko's came against either MUCH smaller guys or guys that were never that good.

Put Gatti in there with a good or even decent guy... and we saw the results.

[beenKOed]

Lacy's physique fooled some into believing untrooths. He wasn't the monstrous puncher he looked to be.

He narrowly got by a few average(at the time Lacy fought them) fighters. His whole career was intended to be a trick. If you remember Calzaghe had been having tons of hand problems, Lacy's handlers were counting on those problems to decide the fight. They didn't think for a second he could out fight Joe C, they couldn't be that dumb.

I think they were that stupid, at that time Lacy was being handled/supported by a consortium of local businessmen, who may have had more say in the matter than they should have. I don't have any proof--I was never interested enough to find out.
If anyone ever fit the definition of a lamb being led to slaughter or being exposed, it was Lacy in the Calzaghe fight.
Everybody knows he was never the same after that fight, it's happened to plenty of fighters.
He must really need the money.