2004 Jeff Lacy was as good as it gets ...

You should stop making threads. Please.

Lacy couldn't box at an elite level, he was always going to be a pressure fighter. Was limited as a combination puncher overall, due to his handspeed. Was open defensively. Had trouble vs Sheika and Vanderpool. He was never even close to being as good as it gets.

In hindsight, he was over rated, due to his exciting style and KO power.

 

Also he ****ed up his shoulder against Tsypko, permanantly receeding him to journeyman status

 

He belived his own press "Left Hook" deployed Lacy.
He will defo grab another strap before he decides to call it quit's.
I'll not put him in "journeyman" status just yet, not with that type of explosion.

 

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Lacy had 18 or 19 fights before fighting Calzaghe, and the only top guys were Syd Vanderpool and Omar Sheika, both of whom were considerably past their best. Both, however, were outboxing Lacy before his superior strength and power took over. He does now how to box a little, but not enough to compensate for his lack of foot speed or head movement. I'm sure the Calzaghe fight caused some of the problems too. Fernando Vargas & Davey Moore both had more potential than Lacy, but took on too much too soon in the forms of Felix trinidad and Roberto Duran. Both took more punishment in those respective fights than Lacy did against Calzaghe, and they were both ruined by those beatings. The same may be true for Lacy.

 

Lacey is a slugger, that was the problem. He had no target to hit.

 

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its a prediction i'm making

 

honestly i didnt think much of lacy even before he fought calzaghe. lacy can box yes, i just didnt see anythin great out of him and his power wasnt unbelievable or spectacular either.

 

Calzaghe probably caused a lot of problems. Your not going to be the same after going through that for 12 rounds. David Diaz could have at least been competitive against the top guys at 135lbs, but now, I might not pick him over even just a fringe contender. However, Calzaghe didn't "ruin" him. He showed a good amount of flaws and weaknesses prior to the Calzaghe fight. Calzaghe was just something he had never seen before, and unlike his previous opponents, could expose these flaws and weaknesses quite easily.

 

He was never a boxer, he was a puncher who pressured his opponents.

That is how he won his world title. Being a pressure fighter takes a tonne of skill, i wasn't saying it doesn't. Just saying that your initial post regarding him being able to outbox people is just plain wrong.

I came at you personally because it is a silly thread, to say he was as good as it gets. That is just ridiculous, and you are setting yourself up to look stupid saying things like that.

He isn't a BAd fighter, just not an elite level one. He could realistically still regain a title, although it won't be against Kessler that is for certain.