Joe Calzaghe: Stop living off of Lacy

Robin Reid in is heyday arguably beat Joe Calzaghe on points.

Forget the Reid that many of you US guys saw against Lacy, a money-focused, under-trained shadow...

Reid kept landing that overhand left all night long i seem to recall and it was absolutely 50/50 at the death.

Once Reid lost, he was shutout completely for a rematch and then he had to go travelling to Italy and Germany etc to even get a paid fight.

Reid battered Sven Ottke and the CORRUPT judges in Germany gave it to Sven... after that Reid lost interest completely and thought 'i will get paid and get out'.

The point is, any threat to Joe Calzaghe is shunned by Frank Warren as all he want s to do is feed cadiva's to Joe so he looks good on TV. That is how Frank Warren operates, he strings his fighters along, feeding them bums and in turn he makes them rich.

Thats where Hatton and Calzaghe differ - Ricky wanted to genuinely fight the best and thus broke away from a seaminly 'water-tight' contract to pursue his dreams.

Immeadiately after, Joe Calzaghe came out publicly calling Hatton and his decision to quit Frank Warren's sports network - saying Warren gets the best opponents and he was the true legend in the UK !! Basically Joe was saving face about his own career.

Thats when the public started to turn against Joe - fighting light middle weights like Ashira - when genuine threats like Carl Froch and Kessler both said they would fight joe. Combined with the criticism of the fan-favourite Ricky Hatton - his stock sank low.

He was forced into a corner when Lacy called him out, said he was a fraud and that if he was scared to travel he would come to the UK to fight him - Joe Calzaghe shat himself and thought 'I have to fight this guy now'.

Then we had the usual calzaghe fight-postponement (hand). This enabled Warren to table a substantial offer to get Lacy over into the UK (to calm Joe's nerves a little more).

The truth is, Calzaghe is not only a gifted boxer, but is also a coward who doesn't chase down opponents - this is probably a result of the FW brainwashing system over the years (easy fights, look good & earn money).

Yes Joe beat Lacy - Joe rose to the occaision and Lacy was very poor.....

.... But the fact still remains that JOE AINT FOUGHT ANYONE and should stop feasting on his 'Lacy' meal ticket.



(Whether he'd beat the top guys ...is a different thread)

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Originally Posted by jangeorg

It was not a huge win by any means. It was an impressive performance in that he dominated a guy most people figured would beat him. In retrospect, Lacy was not nearly as good as Showtime made him out to be. Wright's domination of Trinidad was twice as impressive because Trinidad has an impressive history. Lacy's biggest win was Scott Pemberton/Omar Sheika/Robin Reid. Take your pick. None of them are great wins. Calzaghe and his fans can't go a day without mentioning the Lacy shut-out as though it even ranks up there with Mayweather's domination of Gatti. Newsflash: it doesn't. Fight the winner of Kessler-Beyer, who, without a doubt, will be a more proven fighter than Lacy was.



Kessler KO Beyer in 7 round

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Who still talks about it? Has Royal stolen you account? More Kessler fan boys talk about Jeff Lacy getting beaten than Calzaghe fans do... seriously, get over him...

Calzaghe 'are' probably going to be fighting Taylor/Wright/Jones or some one next year... ;D

" I don't think he's making excuses when he says that he fought 20%...just compare his speed and everything that night to his previous 3 fights."

LOL!!! dasamm.

Lacy looked drained and slow because Calzaghe mayde him look slow! Calzaghe overhealmed him with puche's from all angels and made Lacy look slow and bad.
There is a big difference between a shot reid, williams and a half dead pemberton.

im a fan of calzaghe and i was shocked to see him destroy lacy but jangeorg is kinda right. calzaghe is living of lacy. why dont he prove he's one of the best by fighting some better fighters and stop talking about how he destroyed lacy. he should fight taylor or tarver and prove himself some more

Kessler, Andrade or someone his own size. O0

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Originally Posted by ds91

im a fan of calzaghe and i was shocked to see him destroy lacy but jangeorg is kinda right. calzaghe is living of lacy. why dont he prove he's one of the best by fighting some better fighters and stop talking about how he destroyed lacy. he should fight taylor or tarver and prove himself some more

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And what super fights has he been talking about securing in 2007 since beating Jeff Lacy?

Jesus... you people.... ::**