Heya Doug,
Just gotta put in my rant this week, making your life a little more surreal. HEY KEN B. from Antioch..I'll take that bet.

Lacy - Wants to fight Calzaghe (is it pronounced CAL-ZAG-HE? Or CAL-ZA-GEH?) Anyway, no one wanted to fight the Welshman and I see his record peppered with some pretty good names. I give him credit for wanting that fight, but I doubt Joe will leave the comfort of
Europe, and it would be almost suicide to go there...they should have more fights here in Canada! DAMMIT! Neutral terrain.

So, if lacy pulls this one off, and beats him, should he move up? Get out of the ankle deep division, and then test the water at 175? Unifying then targeting glen Johnson would be a nice. Don't go for tarver yet, he is a big boy. He had a bit of a hurdle making weight, and I think that someone peed in the 168 pool.

And why do we always go to a "water" analogy in boxing?

Heavy-wait division: Monte Barrett, is he just a gatekeeper to the heavyweight contender ranks? I don't know much about him, name rings a bell...but could be just because he beat Guinn, after Guinn beat grant. I like Rahman, I want to see him on top again, I think he is PERFECT to breath life back into a boring division (see, I went with oxygen as opposed to water that time, and any comment on H20 won't work). Rahman is loud and from what I remember of the campaign for the 2nd fight with Lewis, he has a great sense of humor. I'll be cheering for him against Quitschko. Or better yet, RAHMAN/TONY in "battle of the bulge".

- Jody (aka Lowkey77)

I don't know how Calzaghe pronounces his name and I don't care because he's never fought in the United States. I don't care where they have the fight (by the way, if they had it in Canada, I'd probably travel to cover it there, especially if it landed in Toronto), as long as it happens. If Calzaghe comes up with some excuse not to face Lacy, I'm done with him. I won't write another word about the Welshman and will instead turn my attention to hyping a potential match between Lacy and excellent WBA title holder Mikkel Kessler.

If Calzaghe does take the fight (and I think he will) and Lacy beats him I think the Florida native has more options at 168 pounds than he does at 175. There's Kessler like I mentioned, plus Jermain Taylor (who wont' stay at 160 very long) and undefeated prospect Libardo Andrade. Trust me, all three of those fights are fight of the year candidates. F__k the light heavyweights.