ok heard lacy wants to take on jones after he fights some guy named griffin.....well personally i pick Jones by Wide UD but in boxing you can never say never
it is so terribly hard for me to even watch roy jones fight at this point. i found myself averting my eyes from his fight with sheika even though i paid good money for that sour fiasco of pay-per-view crappiness. i never liked roy's attitude or style and his eventual painful demise once he lost even half a step was inevitable since his early career. however, despite all that, he was--before his unorthodox style crashed and burned with his career when he started slowing down==the finest athlete in the sport and one of the very best fighters, pound-for-pound, of his generation. he brought excitement and attention to weight classes that had been cold and boring for years and he did things that only a handful of guys in the modern era could do in a ring. that said, with very little sound technique and straightforward, fundamental boxing in his tool box, roy went from pound-for-pound elite to plodding, clueless heavy bag because his highly unorthodox style that required elite, prime athleticism and reflexes to even enact could not run on even mildly diminished capabilities. in the absence of that dominant athleticism the glass jaw that had been hiding been such extreme gifts for so long was painfully, instantly revealed and is now permanently vulnerable. it's sad to see. i wish roy would have retired after the knockout losses to johnson and tarver. roy is doing nothing to enhance his legacy now and everything to put a tragic, pathetic endcap on a massively impressive career. the guy who beat hopkins and toney so soundly at 160 is surely not the guy who got a boring, premature stoppage against the slurry and nearly un-sanctionable omar sheika recently. all that said, i still voted for jones to get over on lacy...talk about a fighter being old and haggard before his time. lacy is, in my opinion, a natural junior middleweight who has a bodybuilder complex that diminished his skills, put an unneccessary burden on his body and stopped him from ever discovering his actual potential and place in the ring. even in his sadly diminished state, the fumes from the corpse of roy jones would still likely run circles around a jeff lacy who was so ruined and taken apart emotionally and psychologically by the slap and shuffle clinic joe calzaghe put on him that he has never been the same after. in addition, despite not taking any really serious beatings from big punchers in his career, lacy seems to me to be shockingly worn, blank and wobbly from the accumulation of a really small amount of punishment. i suppose you just never know whose body will hold up and whose will fold...lacy and jermain taylor sound a little confused and woozy, staring off like mannequins in interviews, while arturo gatti and mickey ward seem as articulate as they were in the early days of their careers, respectively--neither of them seemed a genius at any point, but at least they seem the same anti-intellectuals they did before taking what should have been brain-mashing career's worth of punishment in almost every fight. in any case, jones pulls a bad impression of his former self on lacy, never gets out of second gear and still catches jeff with all kinds of leaping, slow motion hooks and geriatric-speed flurries on his way to a unanimous decision victory by big margins. jeff, in this fight, would just stand at mid ring, get hit with bunches of punches, hold, hang on, complain about rabbit punches and low blows to get breathers and swing wildly and off-balance once every minute without coming close to hitting old man jones.
roy is a boxing legend for what he acclompliced back in the day but over the last fews years he has showed signs of a not so good chin. i think lacy hits hard and coulsd do to roy what johnson and tarver did
