By Michael Amakor – March 5, 2005
The Left Hook Express train remains unstoppable and still on the tracks as he brutalized an overmatched Rubin Williams signalling a warning to the boxing world that a new King has arrived determined to begin hostilities against all pretenders.
Referee Tony Weeks a veteran of many championship fights had seen enough at the end of the sixth round and halted the contest declaring a jubilant Jeff a Technical Knockout victory.
“I want Joe Calzaghe any time any place and on his own turf,” declared a blood thirsty, knuckle cracking Jeff Lacy immediately after the bout.
The Super Middleweight Division has not had a Unified King in distant memory and the other champions of the division better start stockpiling an arsenal of completed pushups and logged gym time if the want to cling onto their belts for much longer.
Watch Out
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
