Is Jeff Lacy that bad?

100% agree about Lacy-Mundine, alot of Mundine fans seem to think Mundine would stop Lacy easily:huh And yes, if you look how hard Joe hit earlier in his career its quite obvious the hand troubles have diminished his power down the years.

 

I never saw it that way. More like the easy-money fight, but I guess yuo can see it as an attempt to make Joe more of a household name in the eyes of the american viewers.

 

Lacy was very aggressive and quick in his fight against Joe, it may have been Lacy's best performance techniqcally, we just don't realise it because of what Joe did to him -fullstop-

 

It was as they say, a publicity stunt that backfired. Any sane person would have realized that was the outcome, when the celebrity was exposed as a clown with no abilities.

 

First off, Mundine is only timid, when he doesn't know how to counter. Secondly, unless Mundine is stationary and starts to trade boxes that way, its fair to say he would lose. However, using his speed to get in or out - will still likely confuse the limited Lacy. Of course, it requires that he utilizes the same gameplan as JC.

 

"the division has been **** since the days of Benn,Eubank,Collins,and RJJ"
"but Lacy was one of the better ones"

Had a good laugh when reading your post,mate!
No offence is intended,but I totally disagree with you.
Supermiddle is a very hot division with lots of promising fighters.
Kessler and Calzaghe are the undisputed nr.2 and 1 at present.No doubt about that!
However,there are very capable fighters like Inkin,Bute,Froch,Oganov,Braehmer,or Balzsay.
Lacy would probably lose against all aforementioned names.He has been totally overrated in my opinion.He is a decent American fighter,but no top fighter.Thats for sure!
Gaidar Gaidarbekov gave him a lesson in boxing winning every second of every round against a totally overmatched Lacy in his last amateur fight.
Joe exposed him at the pros.
And Tsypko,too,won his encounter with Lacy but wasnt able to get a point decision on American soil against an American fighter.

 

Erm.

Jeff Lacy would absolutely twat every single fighter you mentioned in that one sentence cept Joe and Kessler of course.

Lacy has tremendous knockout power greater than that of Joe and Kessler, he has knocked out nearly everyone he's faced and has fought good opposition (Robin Reid, Sheika).

However, Lacy got shown up in the Calzaghe fight for his lack of adaptability, movement and ring experience. Lacy's come forward style was perfectly suited to Joe and he got dominated. Also in doing so proved to me that Calzaghe is virtually unbeatable fighting on the inside, something that Kessler's going to have to avoid doing against him.

Jeff's a very good fighter, Joe and Kessler are just better. Im sure we'll see Lacy win a world title again in a few fights, he got unlucky with his injury. Whether he'll recover totally remains to be seen, but he's still a very dangerous SMW and IF Kessler loses to Joe in November than we could very well see the both of them fight next year.

Its true Lacy might have been over-rated before the fight, but I think people now are just under-rating him. I think lets give him a few more fights before we make our final evaluations on him.