Why was Calzaghe beating Lacy considered such a big win for Calzaghe?

Because every brutha thought Lacy will demolish, knockout, outmatch, outmuscle, outslick, outfight, outfox, smash, stop, axepole, disintegrate, annihilate, outpoint, outgun, outthink, conquer, subdue Calzaghe.

Hindsight is such a bliss that after the fight, everybody is now saying "I told you so".

 

Look at this dummy...so all of the oddsmakers are " bruthas " now?:rofl Gotta love how you stans always make a fool of yourself.

 

Ain't so?

Of course I am only referring to ESB population. I don't know the oddsmakers were also into Lacy! But I take your word for it.

I can not be bothered reading what the oddsmakers were saying at that time but the ESB sure have fancied Lacy over Clazaghe - and it is the same population, the one supporting Dawson, Gayweather, Hopkins, etc. Get my drift?

Want to dig some of the pre-Lacy vs. Calzaghe fight threads and prove me wrong?

I never rode Lacy's bandwagon, just like Dawson's one, simply because obviously they were so overrated.

 

Yeah right.:-(.

 

Let's be fair. Jeff Lacy was a very good fighter. He was a monster and fought with a ton of heart, and had serious power.

Calzaghe only beat him like that because Calzaghe is a great fighter, and was probably having his best night to boot. Give Joe credit... that was a great win for him.

Calzaghe didn't "ruin" Lacy either. Jeff Lacy's career was ruined in the second round of his fight immediately following the Calzaghe fight. He looked back, better than ever early in that fight... but the damage that full thickness tear did to his left shoulder is something that "left hook" never recovered from.

 

Calzaghe only fought bums and old men but Lacy was one of the best bums he ever faced.

 

What a disgraceful vCash total you have. :roflatsch

And make me my Earl Grey tea warmer next time crudfart. :fire

Team Elite do not tolerate hot drink temperature discrepancy. I have a good mind to reduce your pay to $1 an hour, any more slip-ups.:nono

 

How I wish my ''Calzaghe will annihilate Lacy'' thread was still here for us all to go back and look at...all these americans now claiming he was never anything special and how hardly anyone backed him....sure wasnt that way before the fight.

 

I joined this board specfically for that fight.

And let me tell you....the vast majority of posters on this forum thought Lacy was going to win. I recall people asserting that Calazaghe was 'shitting it' at the weigh in and common quotes were 'look at his face, he knows he's in trouble, it's too late now to pull out eh Joe' etc etc. Everyone seemed to think Jeff was a monster, and the Sheika fight was dismissed as a mere off night for a still learning fighter. Most pointed to the Pemberton and Reid fights as signs of his terrifying power and aura.

Few were picking him to win. In fairness, some of the Brit boys did and even those that didn't opined that they thought Joe was past it on the basis of his performance against that blown up MW Ashira in his previous fight but reckoned he might have won it in his prime.

In the end, I picked Joe by UD. However, I thought it was going to be a close but tight decision in which Joe would have to pick his spots, counter effectively and generally stay away from Jeffs power as much as he could.

Boy was I wrong: Joe beat him in every facet of the game and the general was a very interesting place the next day! Almost overnight, Joe developed a signficant following out with the Brits and of course, went on to prove himself a great fighter over the next few years, finally fulfilling at least some of the potential we all knew he had.

 

This is actually true, if you weren't such a wind up merchant the majority of the time I'd be giving you huge credit for that pick. As it is, your bias in favour of all things British (and especially English) makes it hard not to know whether that thread was made in jest or represented your actual pick.

 

You ****ing idiot.

It's you sooky la-la revisionist seppo ****s who claim Lacy was a hype-job, but y'all only started claiming that after Calzaghe demolished him.

Go get an education you dopey **** :deal

 

:yep

 

Go on then, run away you dumb ****.

 

If you`re trying to claim that most Brits before the fight were calling Lacy a hype job the you`re talking total sh*t.