How would a Prime Lacy do again these two? My opinion.. Froch gets KTFO bad from a huge left hook. Froch is too basis with little defense. Even with his above average chin, a huge hook would savagely Ko him. Ward is tricky. He might out point Lacy or he might get hit with a Boone-like shot and get KFTO too. I'll take Lacy late round rally Ko. Lacy was criminally underrated. Who wins these prime fight
Maybe Kovalev's right hand. But his jab? No. That's also a good fight. If Lacy lands that hook on Kovalev's chin..it could be lights out. Thou Kovalev is a better boxer than Froch.
you could even argue that lacys left hook, at one time, was prob the most feared punch in the sport...It was so good they let it be his nickname!! I mean if that doesn't say it all?!
this is not the lacy who was stopped easily by 40something jones? jones has been repeatedly stopped by skillless clubbers in his 40s, and outpointed by calzaghe.
Prime Lacy was a very good SMW, but was ruined when Calzaghe beat him and then he had the shoulder problem and that was that really. People forget that prime Lacy was faster than Froch or Ward, arguably punched harder than both and had a higher workrate. I think prime Froch that was fighting Pascal against prime Lacy would have been a war with both getting hurt and neither getting stopped. I wouldnt be shocked if Lacy won a close tough fight in that one With Ward, its a styles make fight thing and I think if Ward was able to get away with alot of holding he would have outpointed Lacy, but I think it would have been a dull encounter with Ward landing a punch, holding and pushing forward in clinches to win a UD of something like 116-112, but think Ward would have problems with Lacys speed and power in patches and if Lacy were to land clean it would probably be over I dont think Ward and Lacy would have fought. Ward didnt face Bute when he was an undefeated SMW champ Lacy close decision over Froch Ward closish UD over Lacy