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    Default Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Looking at Jeff pre Calzaghe yes he was crude but he let his punches flow had decent headmovement and was bullish inside.

    Post Calzaghe he pushes his shots they dont flow anymore he also does not move his head.

    At 29yo Lacy imo was ruined mentally and physically.

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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Absolutley, when that fight finished so did Lacy.
    He lost ever bit of mental strength and fortitude that he had built.

    He was actually a gutsy fighter, he kept coming after Calzaghe, he never stopped trying, but the loss was a complete and uter domination.
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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Calzaghe schooled his ass and he has never looked the same since.

    To be beaten so comprehensively when he thought he was the man seems to have destroyed him mentally.

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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    It seemed to be a psychological domination and it would be hard to recover from.
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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    One thing I will give him is he can take a beating. But yes it finished him

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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Yes it did but he always did have major flaws which could be taken advantage of it has to be said the he was lucky that his 3 best wins were past there prime Syd Vanderpool Robin Reid Omar Sheika none of these fighters even at that best would i consider world class. Most of the time come forward fighters like Lacy have no defence and are 1 dimensional normally they do get found out unless the punchers are special like George Foreman Joe Louis amongst many other greats.

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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny View Post
    Absolutley, when that fight finished so did Lacy.
    He lost ever bit of mental strength and fortitude that he had built.

    He was actually a gutsy fighter, he kept coming after Calzaghe, he never stopped trying, but the loss was a complete and uter domination.
    I disagree completely about Lacy losing all his mental strenght and fortidude.


    Apart from his physical strength pretty much all Lacy has is his heart and will to win.

    I have to say, I'm a big Jeff Lacy fan, in my mind no boxer gives his all more than Jeff Lacy.

    To get beat for every minute of every round like he did against Joe Calzaghe but to keep fighting to the very end, to fight with a torn rotator cuff from the second round against Tyspko and pull out a win and to come back from being rocked several times against Mendoza to dig deep and make sure he won the final round and therefore the fight shows the heart and mental strength of a true champion imo.

    Lacy is limited technically, and his power was overratted but for heart, determination, dedication to the sport and sheer iron will Lacy is possibly America's best fighter imo.

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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny View Post
    Absolutley, when that fight finished so did Lacy.
    He lost ever bit of mental strength and fortitude that he had built.

    He was actually a gutsy fighter, he kept coming after Calzaghe, he never stopped trying, but the loss was a complete and uter domination.
    I disagree completely about Lacy losing all his mental strenght and fortidude.


    Apart from his physical strength pretty much all Lacy has is his heart and will to win.

    I have to say, I'm a big Jeff Lacy fan, in my mind no boxer gives his all more than Jeff Lacy.

    To get beat for every minute of every round like he did against Joe Calzaghe but to keep fighting to the very end, to fight with a torn rotator cuff from the second round against Tyspko and pull out a win and to come back from being rocked several times against Mendoza to dig deep and make sure he won the final round and therefore the fight shows the heart and mental strength of a true champion imo.

    Lacy is limited technically, and his power was overratted but for heart, determination, dedication to the sport and sheer iron will Lacy is possibly America's best fighter imo.
    This is a good post in all seriousness, totally agree. If anything last night I was impressed by the guts of Lacy. Mendoza can complain all he wants but when it counted Lacy wanted it more. He won the fight on pure guts.

    With Lacy its just another case of fans falling in love with a puncher but like you say his power has always been overrated too. He's more of a clubbing type puncher, he never got guys out early or with one big punch.

    And the technical flaws defensively are really the problem. Outside he's obviously not comfortable and inside (you can see this big time as far back as even the Rubin Williams fight) he doesn't keep his hands up well enough, he keeps the left too low which is ok I guess on the outside but not the inside when you're not really moving your head.

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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Wow this must be the first time you've agreed with one of my posts Ouma.

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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny View Post
    Absolutley, when that fight finished so did Lacy.
    He lost ever bit of mental strength and fortitude that he had built.

    He was actually a gutsy fighter, he kept coming after Calzaghe, he never stopped trying, but the loss was a complete and uter domination.
    I disagree completely about Lacy losing all his mental strenght and fortidude.


    Apart from his physical strength pretty much all Lacy has is his heart and will to win.

    I have to say, I'm a big Jeff Lacy fan, in my mind no boxer gives his all more than Jeff Lacy.

    To get beat for every minute of every round like he did against Joe Calzaghe but to keep fighting to the very end, to fight with a torn rotator cuff from the second round against Tyspko and pull out a win and to come back from being rocked several times against Mendoza to dig deep and make sure he won the final round and therefore the fight shows the heart and mental strength of a true champion imo.

    Lacy is limited technically, and his power was overratted but for heart, determination, dedication to the sport and sheer iron will Lacy is possibly America's best fighter imo.
    This is a good post in all seriousness, totally agree. If anything last night I was impressed by the guts of Lacy. Mendoza can complain all he wants but when it counted Lacy wanted it more. He won the fight on pure guts.

    With Lacy its just another case of fans falling in love with a puncher but like you say his power has always been overrated too. He's more of a clubbing type puncher, he never got guys out early or with one big punch.

    And the technical flaws defensively are really the problem. Outside he's obviously not comfortable and inside (you can see this big time as far back as even the Rubin Williams fight) he doesn't keep his hands up well enough, he keeps the left too low which is ok I guess on the outside but not the inside when you're not really moving your head.
    Agreed completely. I think at one point he was a lot better technically as far as being an offensive fighter then he is now but everything about this is right. Obviously I want to stay away from this topic as he's my favorite fighter, but you're right, in a way it was a great performance by Lacy. Obviously it's pretty safe say his days as a champion are done I would think unless he can simply outlast a better boxer.

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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Its not the first time I've agreed with you Bilbo especially the times when you aren't saying absolutely silly things. Its just that you said exactly what I was gonna say after reading Donny's post so it had to be acknowledged.

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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny View Post
    Absolutley, when that fight finished so did Lacy.
    He lost ever bit of mental strength and fortitude that he had built.

    He was actually a gutsy fighter, he kept coming after Calzaghe, he never stopped trying, but the loss was a complete and uter domination.
    I disagree completely about Lacy losing all his mental strenght and fortidude.


    Apart from his physical strength pretty much all Lacy has is his heart and will to win.

    I have to say, I'm a big Jeff Lacy fan, in my mind no boxer gives his all more than Jeff Lacy.

    To get beat for every minute of every round like he did against Joe Calzaghe but to keep fighting to the very end, to fight with a torn rotator cuff from the second round against Tyspko and pull out a win and to come back from being rocked several times against Mendoza to dig deep and make sure he won the final round and therefore the fight shows the heart and mental strength of a true champion imo.

    Lacy is limited technically, and his power was overratted but for heart, determination, dedication to the sport and sheer iron will Lacy is possibly America's best fighter imo.
    This is a good post in all seriousness, totally agree. If anything last night I was impressed by the guts of Lacy. Mendoza can complain all he wants but when it counted Lacy wanted it more. He won the fight on pure guts.

    With Lacy its just another case of fans falling in love with a puncher but like you say his power has always been overrated too. He's more of a clubbing type puncher, he never got guys out early or with one big punch.

    And the technical flaws defensively are really the problem. Outside he's obviously not comfortable and inside (you can see this big time as far back as even the Rubin Williams fight) he doesn't keep his hands up well enough, he keeps the left too low which is ok I guess on the outside but not the inside when you're not really moving your head.
    One thing I noticed in his last fight is I didn't see Birmingham in his corner. That kind of made things weird.

    But he looked pretty good when he was double jabbing to the right hand. And then he started winging shots. I don't know what happened. First few times he looked good, then after eh got stunned he started winging.

    I think the shoulder injury has messed him up though. Did he even really throw a left hook with authority last night?

    He still has guts and heart. But he really needs to learn to use his jab more and have confidence in that left hook again
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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Well its troublesome when a guy gets hit fairly regularly with a right uppercut inside when that's all Mendoza was doing on the inside.

    Power is a funny thing though, Mendoza doesn't look like he throws anything that hard, kind of sloppy sluggish looking punches but they mess people up.

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    Default Re: Did the Calzaghe fight ruin Jeff Lacy?

    Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by hitmandonny View Post
    Absolutley, when that fight finished so did Lacy.
    He lost ever bit of mental strength and fortitude that he had built.

    He was actually a gutsy fighter, he kept coming after Calzaghe, he never stopped trying, but the loss was a complete and uter domination.
    I disagree completely about Lacy losing all his mental strenght and fortidude.


    Apart from his physical strength pretty much all Lacy has is his heart and will to win.

    I have to say, I'm a big Jeff Lacy fan, in my mind no boxer gives his all more than Jeff Lacy.

    To get beat for every minute of every round like he did against Joe Calzaghe but to keep fighting to the very end, to fight with a torn rotator cuff from the second round against Tyspko and pull out a win and to come back from being rocked several times against Mendoza to dig deep and make sure he won the final round and therefore the fight shows the heart and mental strength of a true champion imo.

    Lacy is limited technically, and his power was overratted but for heart, determination, dedication to the sport and sheer iron will Lacy is possibly America's best fighter imo.
    I already Repped you, and this post hits it right on the head 10000% not to mention Lacy dosent complain AT ALL!!!!

    Mendoza karate chopped Lacy at least 20X to the back of the head

    Mendoza after being rocked and stumbling landed a 3 punch combo to Lacys crouch, Jeff didnt complain

    The only time I saw Lacy complain is when he tagged Mendoza and he flew backwards into the ropes and richoched off of Jeff and hit the floor.. The ref called it a slip when the ropes were the only thing holding up Mendoza

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