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

[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.

[Taeth]

Like I have with Miranda, that being said Lacy had a lot of potential because he was pretty fast and he was so strong, but he haymakers really limited his speed, and his power because his arc is so big on most of his punches, I still feel if he would have focused on being a better technical fighter that he would have been a special fighter, but he started getting Tyson comparisons and he was done.

[Spicoli]

Not dogging Lacy but when Wiggins,Vanderpoole were boxing him a bit & some what slippery/awkward Grant made it 12 ,I began to see it coming.Was before my day's here but I thought Calzaghe would outwork him....but never like that.