Lacy performances

I was never on the hype train but admittedly had only seen him fight twice once against Sheika and once against Vanderpool, the uppercut he nailed Vanderpool with was amazing but he always seemed rather sluggish to me.

 

there are no honest answers to this guys career his fans vanished as soon as the final bell rung for the calzaghe fight

 

dude Wiggins did not beat Green in the pros... only Beyer and Mundine have done that

 

Lacy was only stopped by RJJ many years after the Calzaghe loss

 

didn't think lacy was that great to begin with..

he just had a cool nickname that he didn't even live up to.

 

Yeah he beat a Danny Green. Not the famous one tho

 

He wasn't starched. He may have well have been though. He pretty much lost almost every second of every round and the ref stopped it in the 10th I believe.

 

Yeah I was lucky enough to be in Biloxi for that one live. I'm so glad I saw that Roy performance instead of all the garbage that came before and after.

 

His problem is he cant "pull the trigger", before the calzaghe fight he was knocking guys out left and right but he was landing clean flush power shots to do so and had pretty good power in his right and left. It was really more his overhand right than his left hook that he was knocking the guys out with despite his name.


Everyone seems to think its all mental but I suspect its more physical because no matter what opponent he cant seem to land cleanly like he used to and when he does there is no power or pop left, his punches are slow, easy to slip and dont bother anyone when they do land.

I think the shoulder / rotator cuff injury he had in the fight with Typsko immediately after the calzaghe fight is what really ruined him, especially considering they were questioning if he would ever fight again:
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=9130&more=1
and considering he performed well in that fight against a good opponent.

People want to suggest its mental but does anyone really think he was having calzaghe flashbacks fighting with Peter ****ing manfredo? The lacy that stopped Reid and pemberton would have annihilated manfredo in the early rounds but he couldnt land with authority like he used to.

 

Agree , the injury is the main thing after Calzaghe beatdown. He couldn't throw punches like he used to with power behind them. Totally washed up at a young age.

Thrown to the wolves, he must feel terrible really about how his career played out. "What Hook" Lacy goes down as a top hype job all time.

 

I think the rotator cuff was an issue but the mental side was as well. Thinking about it from a practical point of veiw, I can't imagine how I'd ever motivate myself to train hard for a fight again after getting hammered like that infront of everybody I knew against somebody I was supposed to beat. I think it should have been stopped in the seventh when Calzaghe got him in that corner, it would have been called premature, but certainly it shouldn't have gone 12. Lacy was never as good as Kessler but in all fairness he was considered as 1 or 2 by everybody going into that fight. I honestly think Lacy was better than Beyer at that stage.

 

He was having serious problems with that shoulder pre-Calzaghe as well, and just didn't get it taken care of in time. He lost a LOT of power after the surgery, and I think that's the main reason for his sudden decline.

 

A thread about Lacy's performances yet Calzaghe is mentioned 20 times in that post. You're a straight up dumbass. "Calzaghe at 36 still throwing 1000 punches a fight is more past prime than a 44 year old Hopkins", isn't that a thread you started?, idiot.

 

The only other downfall I've seen almost as bad in recent years as Lacy was Jameel DeCline.