so why exactly were people picking lacy to beat calzaghe???

Undefeated and a Huge puncher, Let me add that i think that Power is still hugely overrated in boxing.
Calzaghe vs Lacy is a perfect example of this.
Sure power is a great attribute to have, but i will take agility, speed, and technical ability over power any day.

 

I didnt know much about Calzaghe, all I knew was he practically fought nobodys in his nearly 10 reign as a WBO champ leading up to the fight, and Lacy was overhyped by Showtime and other boxing sites. It was an easy pic for Americans to pick Lacy to win.

 

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for me it was the opposite...i had only seen calzaghe a few times against limited opposition. i wasn't exactly high on lacy....i thought he was overrated as well. i thought lacy had enough to beat joe. joe showed me otherwise. i think the lacy win and kessler win are his best....i've come to realize joe has a lot of tools and is a very intelligent fighter...but i am still not impressed with his opposition. the bhop win will be nice on his resume...but it really won't be significant. i'd like to see him fight someone like dawson, pavlik or even taylor. i think he'll beat pavlik and taylor...dawson might be trouble.

 

he fought on showtime numbnuts :good

 

Because Lacy was over-rated, as hell, just like Miranda before Pavlik beat his ass, people are ignorant, they believe just because a guy has Muscles and has kicked over a bunch of Tomato cans, that he's invincible:huh
I;ll take the slick boxer and technician any day of the week..

 

TV fights made Lacy look invincible, he was supposed to scare his opponents to death and punch harder than anyone in that divsion.

 

Because he is American.

 

no one knew anything about Calzaghe, and Reid was a factor;Calzaghe mildly beat him whereas Lacy destroyed him, plus Lacy was overhyped he was on the cover on ESPN magazine for crying out loud.

 

I think it was more about Calzaghe doing nothing worth mentionning for years. People saw Lacy as the savior of the division. He was a young exciting undefeated american power puncher.

 

I created the thread ''Lacy will get annihilated'' most of you laughed....

 

I remember, Arran's memory IS correct.. *holy crap, I agree with Arran*

Anyhow. Yeah, Calzaghe is accomplished, but at the same time, and at that time.. He was one of those fighters who fought nobody, and really appeared to be a guy who never went out of his way to fight anybody reputable. Lets put it this way, After he fought and defeated Lacy, Lacy was the best opponent he had faced in his career.

I'm not trying to take anything away from Calzaghe. I think he's a great fighter. But seriously, it took him ****ing long enough to bother fighting anybody with a name.

 

If Calzaghe hadn't annihilated Lacy (beating, winning, owning, savaging, brutalising aren't strong enough words for it) then Joe beating Kessler wouldn't be such a big win. Because Americans wouldn't have taken any interest in the Kessler as someone to potentially dethrone Calzaghe and would be now regarded as just a 'euro-level' fighter.

And that fact can be used to explain how Joe's resume is viewed by a lot of Americans. Because they don't know much about the fighters he beat they aren't considered good wins. Just because you only know the shot Robin Reid who got beat up by Lacy doesn't mean Calzaghe beating a prime Reid isn't a great win.

And, lets not forget people, Eubank may have been past his best when Calzaghe won every round against him, but JC was ****ING GREEN at the time!!!

 

Well, it was laughable at the time. Calzaghe had done nothing in recent years that suggested he would beat Lacy the way he did.

With wins over guys like Miguel Angel Jimenez, Tocker Pudwill, Kabary Salem (he was floored in that fight!), Evans Ashira.... you get the drift!?