Somebody said to me "Curtis Stevens would have beaten Jeff Lacy"

Made me think of just how much people forget how dangerous Lacy was, and while he may have been "hyped", he would still have put Curtis in the hospital in his prime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q3ylLIEnQM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjXfqYRqhlA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0DjVi4Adps

Jim Watt ^^: I'm not sure Calzaghe will want anything to do with this man


take a look at the ferociousness of the combinations he landed against Reid at 2:53 and 7:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZmohDNUYJQ

 

The Vitali Tsypko fight, he was cruising early then his shoulder literally ripped in the second round, he did well to see that fight out, people say Stevens showed heart against Golovkin? That's nothing compared to the pain Lacy must have been in. That was pretty much the end of his career as any sort of a contender at that point though, but Joe detractors like to say "Oh look, he didn't do anything afterwards, so he was never any good"


He was a red hot prospect at that time, how hot?

Remember Broner being on a lot of p4p lists? So was Jeff Lacy

 

Yes, at the time, in hindsight especially after the losses to Taylor and Jones (he had Taylor down but the KD wasn't scored) when his shoulder was ****ed, people said " oh look, he's ****"

well yeah, after suffering a humiliating beating then having your left shoulder permanently damaged when your very nickname is "Left Hook" , you may be ruined

How did Lucian Bute look against Denis Grachev?

 

Emmanuel Stewart, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roy Jones, and James Toney mustn't have seen the Sheika fight though, since they all picked Lacy by KO

FACT

Afterwards, Leonard, Jones and Stewart admitted they had seen greaness unfold before their very eyes, Toney still says Calzaghe is garbage and got lucky

 

The Stevens who fought Brinkley vs the Lacy who fought Reid?

I know who my money is on, and it's not Stevens

In fact, didn't the Reid lost to Lacy fight the Brinkley who beat Stevens?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHurpV5-iHY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag0RkQY4M4Q

damn, there you have it

 

Sure, why not? People like Manny Stewart weren't always averse to picking against an American if they don't think they will win

 

I'm aware of when it was, this of course being the same Sheika who beat prime Glen Johnson

Nobody seemed to pay attention to the weaknesses Lacy showed in that fight at the time, other than Joe Calzaghe himself

I take it you were picking Joe Calzaghe to overwork and pick holes in Lacys footwork and defence gaps and win a shutout at the time yeah?

Struggling with Sheika means he was crap, then what does losing to/ struggling with Darnell Boone mean for Stevenson or Kovalev, I mean, Boone was stopped by Smichet and Periban ffs

See what I;m getting at?

 

Yeah, google "Calzaghe Lacy Predictions" and click the first or second result, it's an interesting read