Joe Calzaghe Unifies Titles!

[chonabot]

Apologies if this topic has aready been covered.

Did anyone see the fight last night between Joe Calzaghe and Jeff Lacy?

Awesome , the much hyped Yank Lacy (IBF champ Super Mid )was expected to KO the older Calzaghe ( WBO champ) within 5 rounds.

Amercian boxing standards are much higher than in the UK , as the Yanks keep telling us.

Calzaghe wasn't listening. In the best fight I have seen for ten years , the last being when Nigel Benn hammered Gerald MC Clellan into retirement , in a similar clash.

If you get a chance to see this fight , have a look, you won't be disappointed.

Calzaghe is now in the top 10 pound-for-pound fighters and probably the top 3 super-middleweights of all time. I only hope Lacy recovers fully and does not end up the same way Mc Clellan did a decade ago.

Never underestimate your opponent.

Respect to Joe!

[daleyboy]

Yep it was truly one of the best fights i have seen for a long time. Lacy just had no repsonse to 12 rounds of beatings. I think Calzaghe(sp) won every single round with ease. Lacy just couldnt respond to the south paw of Calzaghe. I was very impressed with the way he stood up kept lacy at distance by putting in the jabs, followed up with some impressivley quick hand work.

I feel that Lacy only had one punch and tha was the right hook, and i only saw him land twice in the entire fight, the rest of the time he was missing with 80% of his punches.And the other 20% just werent effective.

Well done Joe what a great fight

Edited March 6, 2006 by daleyboy

[leftcross]

listened to it on the radio - sounded like calzaghe wiped the floor with him.

i'm so pleased, i was always a big fan but a lot of his WBO defences have been <deleted>.

calzaghe has finally shown his class - who's next? RJJ or Tarver at LH or Kessler at SM? Calzaghe wins all of them IMO

[steveromagnino]

listened to it on the radio - sounded like calzaghe wiped the floor with him.

i'm so pleased, i was always a big fan but a lot of his WBO defences have been <deleted>.

calzaghe has finally shown his class - who's next? RJJ or Tarver at LH or Kessler at SM? Calzaghe wins all of them IMO

He said he wanted Tarver and RJJ....

IMagine what it would have been like with RJJ at his peak; what a pity... but for now I'd say Calzaghe would beat them both unless RJJ can somehow find his form from 10 years ago (which I cannot see happening)_.

[leftcross]

yes, you are right. rjj has slipped a lot, in fact there is a case for him never boxing again.

i'd like to see calzaghe fight clinton woods - what a UK showdown that would be...

downloaded and watched the calzaghe fight today, absolutely brilliant stuff! thank god my apartment manager has finally got the broadband sorted out