Supermiddleweight clash: Iran BARKLEY vs Jeff LACY

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Height: 6ft 1in

Reach: 74"

World titles: WBC middleweight, IBF supermiddle, WBA lightheavy

Best wins: Thomas Hearns (x2), James Kinchen, Wilfred Scypion

Key losses: Sumbu Kalambay (UD15), Michael Nunn (MD12), Roberto Duran (SD12), Nigel Benn (TKO1), James Toney (RTD9)

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Height: 5ft 10in

Reach: 74"

World titles: IBF supermiddle

Best wins: Robin Reid, Syd Vanderpool, Scott Pemberton, Omar Sheika

Key losses: Joe Calzaghe (UD12), Jermain Taylor (UD12), Roy Jones (RTD10)





Personally, I think the best version of Barkley would dish out a prolonged beating to Lacy and take a wide UD.

What about you? Who you got, and why? :bbb

 

I'm the opposite. When I started this thread, I was thinking of Barkley pounding him remorselessly til the final bell. Now I'm starting to think a TKO would be more likely. Lacy had a good chin, but he was never really in with a puncher who was beating on him. Calzaghe didn't have very good power, Taylor the same. Both were good punchers, not great ones. Barkley had very heavy hands. It is likely he would break Lacy down late on. Lacy may be too resolute to actually get stretched, but a ref or corner intervention is pretty likely IMO.

 

And Jones was shot to ****ing **** by then and had been for years. He hadn't stopped anyone in about 6 or 7 years I'm sure!

 

Omar Sheika doesn't count.

 

Yes, he did.