A show of hands - who knew Lacy was an overrated overhyped rookie before the JC fight

[Fenster]

ICB did.

I remember people were badly ridiculed for thinking Calzaghe could win.

I remember this because, even though i believed Calzaghe could win, the show of support for Lacy was so great that it made me think the likely outcome will be a Lacy victory

[Memphis]

That about sums it up for me too. Thought Joe could win, he'd just have to fight a virtually flawless fight. Who would have known he could do just that?

Thought Lacy would overpower him.

I wish we could dig up the posts from the time. Would show a few people up.

[ono]

I did. Never ever saw what the fuss was about. Saw him beat Scott Pemberton who was basically a guy who didn't wanna fight no more - and he beat him by cuffing him to death. Sky were making out he was awesome, but i just wasn't that impressed. Same with the Robin Reid fight where him and the ref double teamed Reid.

Thought Joe would beat him, not as easily as he did but i still thought he would. Lacy showed a lot of heart and i have been a bit of a fan ever since but always saw him as a fairly limited fighter with over-rated power.

[ICB]

ICB did.

I remember people were badly ridiculed for thinking Calzaghe could win.

I remember this because, even though i believed Calzaghe could win, the show of support for Lacy was so great that it made me think the likely outcome will be a Lacy victory

Your damn right i knew it was obvious in his fights against Omar Sheika, Syd Vanderpool, he wasn't nowhere near as good as the hype. He only got overrated because of his win over a shot undertrained Robin Reid, and Robin Reid gave Joe Calzaghe his toughest fight, which made armchair fans think Jeff Lacy would destroy Joe Calzahghe because he destroyed Robin Reid.

Also his Amateur record got him overrated aswell, but funnily enough he didn't do so well in the Olympics. He was stopped in the 3rd round at the Olympics, another reason he got overrated was because of his power. Power punchers do tend to get very overrated.

[OumaFan]

I bought in to a point, I actually picked Robin Reid to beat him but by the time the Calzaghe fight had come around I decided to go with Lacy. Remember watching the Mitchell fight and thinking Joe was just too wild.

I remember a Lacy-Hopkins thread where you would have thought it would have just been better to shoot Hopkins rather than let him in the ring with Lacy.

All this being said, about half of the people on here picked Gatti. Over Floyd.

Anyway I'm looking forward to the point when this becomes more than a two fighter board again.

[p4pking]

I bought in to a point, I actually picked Robin Reid to beat him but by the time the Calzaghe fight had come around I decided to go with Lacy. Remember watching the Mitchell fight and thinking Joe was just too wild.

I remember a Lacy-Hopkins thread where you would have thought it would have just been better to shoot Hopkins rather than let him in the ring with Lacy.

All this being said, about half of the people on here picked Gatti. Over Floyd.

Anyway I'm looking forward to the point when this becomes more than a two fighter board again.

Hah no kidding huh. I remember that Hopkins Lacy thread as well, funny to think about now. Hopkins would've beat him like a red headed step child at any point.

[Pugilistic]

I thought he would beat Joe.

[kingfrnk]

i didnt know JC at all before i watched lacy. but it didnt like lacy neither i just thought he was well conditioned and in good shape. but to be honest i was going for Lacy. but i knew he was nothing special he just had a good punch on him

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

I bought in to a point, I actually picked Robin Reid to beat him but by the time the Calzaghe fight had come around I decided to go with Lacy. Remember watching the Mitchell fight and thinking Joe was just too wild.

I remember a Lacy-Hopkins thread where you would have thought it would have just been better to shoot Hopkins rather than let him in the ring with Lacy.

All this being said, about half of the people on here picked Gatti. Over Floyd.

Anyway I'm looking forward to the point when this becomes more than a two fighter board again.

I also picked Arturo aver Floyd...

[Fenster]

I bought in to a point, I actually picked Robin Reid to beat him but by the time the Calzaghe fight had come around I decided to go with Lacy. Remember watching the Mitchell fight and thinking Joe was just too wild.

I remember a Lacy-Hopkins thread where you would have thought it would have just been better to shoot Hopkins rather than let him in the ring with Lacy.

All this being said, about half of the people on here picked Gatti. Over Floyd.

Anyway I'm looking forward to the point when this becomes more than a two fighter board again.

I also picked Arturo aver Floyd...

Just give up mate

Oumafan made a fair point, Calzaghe was coming off breaking his hand against Ashira, the rematch with Veit (which wasn't even shown on TV in Britain) and arguably his worse showing ever against Salem.

No wonder people were picking Lacy.

[amat]

ICB you joined in June? The fight was in March of 2006, March 4 to be exact it was my brother's birthday.

Calzaghe didn't exactly look spectacular against Byron Mithcell and it almost cost him.

[ICB]

ICB you joined in June? The fight was in March of 2006, March 4 to be exact it was my brother's birthday.

Calzaghe didn't exactly look spectacular against Byron Mithcell and it almost cost him.

Yea i joined June 6th i think.

[amat]

That's 2 months after the fight

[ICB]

That's 2 months after the fight

Yes but i'll admit if im wrong like i already did with Juan Diaz, Kelly Pavlik, i wasn't wrong about Jeff Lacy. I never see anything about him that stood out other than his power, im not trying to hate on your boy Amat. I got nothing against Jeff Lacy he seems like a nice guy outside the ring and he is good for the sport, but i honestly never thought he was anywhere near as good as the hype.

[Taeth]

I didn't, but I started questioning why he was having so many difficulties with average fighters like Vanderpool, while Calzaghe was dominating the same caliber of opponents, I didn't know as much about boxing then, nowadays I would have seen it immediately.