Overrated?

In his last fight of the year, Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy ended 2005 with a phenomenal splash! Some would have thought that the matchup against the game and durable Scott “Sandman” Pemberton would have given Lacy some problems. There was the height and reach advantage for Pemberton, his jab…etc, but it was all to little or no effect. Lacy seemed to walk through the few jabs that Pemberton landed only to home in with his own signature left hooks and a couple of his neck snapping jabs. But the punch of the night came from Lacy’s enormous overhand right, which sent Pemberton crashing to the canvas with six seconds left in the second round.

The fight was mercifully waved off after that against Pemberton’s protest. Lacy punctuated the night when he asked “Overrated?” Before the fight, Pemberton’s trainer John Scully mentioned that Lacy and his power were overrated. But this past weekend in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, “Left Hook” proved him and all his critics wrong. Again.

With all the hype surrounding this fight, it seems that Jeff Lacy is breezing through the super middleweight division, and maybe this is Joe Calzaghe and anyone else with sense is thinking twice about facing the only true champion of the weight class. Now some might have a problem with thinking that Jeff Lacy is the only true champion of the division, but when you look at the situation, he is the only one willing to defend his title against anyone, anywhere, anytime.

Lacy is the busiest and most active world champion and has faced everyone that was brought before him. So in saying all that, yes he is the man to beat in the super middleweight division. Despite what has been said by his critics, Jeff Lacy has proven himself time and time again.