Lacy or Wilder?

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  1. Liquorice

    Liquorice Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Who is the better boxer? :)
     
  2. FastSmith7

    FastSmith7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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  3. Oddone

    Oddone Bermane Stiverne's life coach. Full Member

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    Lacy.

    Lacy completed his amateur career with a record of 209 wins, 12 losses. You can't do that without some decent skills.

    He was just another guy like Wilder, who had incredible power and a team that failed to shore up his boxing weaknesses and instead maximized his strength, which was the left hook. At five foot nine/ten he was also a little short for the supermiddle weight division in my opinion.
     
  4. timeout

    timeout Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Lacy all day long.

    Lacy got a career changing beating by Sir Joe Calzaghe .
    Wilder got one from Fury
     
  5. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member Full Member

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    :lol: Is this even a serious question? It should be so obvious, even stevie wonder can see who the better boxer is!
     
  6. First Round KO

    First Round KO Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Lacy, Wilder can't box to save his life.
     
  7. Leif Erikson

    Leif Erikson Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Neither?

    Look, both have massive flaws. Curious thing about Lacy, to me, is that he just couldn’t do anything after the Calzaghe loss. I think he stopped one opponent in his last 11 fights - he was completely destroyed in every conceivable way. I get the impression that if Wilder carries on, he won’t be unable to pull the trigger going forward.
     
  8. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Lacy wasn't quite the one-dimensional joke he became known as post-Calzaghe, but nor obviously was he the flawless well-rounded beast some thought he was pre-Calzaghe. He was at least in the average range of boxing skill (by world championship standard) - a bar that Wilder falls well short of meeting.

    That said, Wilder's power is considerably beyond Lacy's - p4p even, not just straight-up. The only exception would be maybe left hook for left hook, Lacy's was superior, but that's a weapon that Wilder barely ever uses anyway...plus Jeff's hook was no match for Wilder's right, even if the former was thrown with more textbook form and the latter is a deadly windmill.
     
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  9. mirkofilipovic

    mirkofilipovic ESB Management Full Member

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    Lacy.