Joe Calzaghe Totally Ruined Jeff Lacy

Classic ESB. Talking **** about a fighter without watching all his fights.

Lacy was very good at one point and the praise was warranted. It takes a ton of mental toughness to come back from a devastating loss. Lacy doesn't have it. He is shot. But this more of a credit to Calzaghe than a knock. He ruined him.

 

I knew Calzaghe would beat Lacy. Calzaghe was way underrated and still is.

 

What power? Some way, somehow, i think Lacy has lost that power. He hit Mendoza flush countless times tonight and it did nothing. It had to be demoralizing to Lacy to see this.

 

And i completely agree that Calzaghe ruined Lacy. If you looked up, "ruined" in the dictionary, it should show this example. His mentality seems to have been affected most. And somehow, his power is gone also.

 

He looked mediocre before he ever fought calzaghe as well...see the close-as-hell Sheika fight.

Lacy was never very good, and always overhyped.

 

Bull****, no offence plymath, but typsko put lacy in a tought fight from the opening bell.
Calzaghe put such an asswhipping on lacy that he will pay for it later in his life,,,I watched that fight many times, an the fact the ref did not stop the fight nor his corner is scary, lacy had a chin from hell that fight, but it will never be the same, if his corner would of stopped that fight in the 7th, he would be a contender still, but now what his team got to start at the bottom, an fight tomato cans for a couple years before they try to move him forward, to have a close fight with manfrado, if that fight happen before the calzaghe fight, i got to say lacy stops peter before the 5th,,,,Lacy an taylor came up together, i still say today, that lacy would beat taylor (before calzaghe),,,,,,Peters the heavyweight also had a problems after having the **** kicked out him by wlad, he was droped by mcline, who didn't land near as a hard shot then handful of shots wlad landed on him, but peters brain got messed up,,,,that what is going on with lacy,, he just needs couple years of give me's to recover

 

I'm thinking it was more his rotator cuff injury and Calzaghe together rather than just the one fight.

 

G.W. Bush was keeping him in his secret cellar.

 

Instead of ruined, it's more like I see parallels between Lacy and Taylor.
Though Taylor is a superior boxer.

 

Can't disagree, you just can't get out of a beating like that without either being physically or mentally damaged, if not both.

 

HOLD UP!!! That's ****ing bull**** and you know it. Tyson was GOOD! Putting Lacy in the same sentence with Tyson is asinine. :nono :nono :nono

 

Exactly.

What Calzaghe did to Lacy was he mentally broke him. Once you are mentally shot, the physical part doesn't matter. You could be Adonis and if your mind is shot, it's over.

Calzaghe toyed with Lacy, totally humiliated him. Any foolish ideas that Lacy and his followers had that this was a mini-Tyson and he would just run roughshod over Calz and the boxing world were so utterly dismantled that night, and in such an embarrassing fashion, there was no more ability for Lacy or his nuthuggers to pretend that he could ever match up with Calzaghe or be some all-time great or whatever. At least not while Calz was around.

In one night, Lacy went from lurking, supposed "Superman" to punked-out, beat-down chump. He went from hero to zero, permanently, all in less than an hour.

That ruined him. His mind wasn't ready for that, he bought the hype, and when he met The Truth in Calz, his entire overhyped world was exposed for the fraud it was.

Just like Taylor-Pavlik, Peter-Wlad, Vargas-Trinidad (actually, Triny just pounded Vargas into the ground; this wasn't so much a mental breakdown by El Joke), Tszyu-Judah and others. People often refuse to see the truth until the action between the ropes definitively demonstrates how things are.

And if you buy the hype too strongly, like a Jeff Lacy apparently did, then when you are schooled in the fashion Lacy was, it breaks you.

Calzaghe absolutely broke Lacy.

*Snap*

 

The shoulder injury didn't help, but Calzaghe just destroyed Lacy's mentality. Jeff had this confidence and aura of invincibility that really got the most out of his game- the style, the speed, and the power. Since the JC fight, he's been a shell of himself. The spirit to really commit to his aggressive style of fighting's gone- and with his build, adapting to a new one just isn't gonna work.

Edit: man I hate it when someone types out something similar 2 minutes before I post it lol

 

Great post, Rock. I got lucky with hitting the 'post' button first, but we're both thinking the same thing.

When you feel like your best will never be enough, it ruins your will (to train, sacrifice, ...). That is what Calzaghe did to Lacy.

Peace! good:thumbsup

 

That pretty much sums it up man, take it easy! :!::thumbsup

Oddly enough, this is also why I don't have a problem with Edison Miranda coming out with cockamamie excuses when he loses- as long as he keeps thinking he's unstoppable, he'll always come to fight.