Quote Originally Posted by Lionheart Lacy
i have read a few articles where they basically take piss out of the fact lacy was supposed to be a 168 mike tyson. They say even at that weight he isnt as fast as a young or old tyson. They say he has crap technique. One writer went as far as to say that lacy shouldnt be mentioned in the same breath as tyson.

I have watched 21 of Lacy's fights, and he is pretty good. He could fight and box alittle. i liked his short fight with tsypko. it was like a chess match, everytime tsypko made a mistake, he paid heavy!
I gotta say, I definitely agree with those articles. Maybe not with the comparison to the old Tyson, but Lacy has definitely not shown himself to be in remotely the same class as the young Tyson. The young Tyson WAS faster than Lacy (despite outweiging him by 60 pounds), threw much better flurries, was completely viscious to the body, and had MUCH better head movement.

I admit that I've seen far fewer Lacy fights than you have, but he looked very flawed in every fight I saw. Poor defense, very wide shots, and too much following without throwing. He obviously won very convincingly in terms of knocking people out, but he never looked like he totally outclassed them while the fight lasted.

And a young Tyson would never have just stood there getting hit for twelve rounds like Lacy did against Calzaghe. (Though an old Tyson did just that against Lewis.)