This Saturday Showtime special has portside power punching Joe Calzaghe and Jeff "Left Hook" Lacy in a IBF/WBO unifier - and unlike recent rehashed "names"- this one needs zero window dressing or the usual hype.

Both are unbeaten super-middleweights - both bring the kind of clout that will pack the joint on merit alone - Calzaghe still a young body at age 33, with 31 of his 40 wins coming by knockout - and Lacy, at prime time age 28, has made 21 trips to the well, and taken 17 scalps.

Have never seen a Calzaghe fight - highlight  clip here and there is all - not all that polished or fluid in style  - lacks the proverbial southpaw edge, but does let the leather fly. Taller at 5-11 to Lacy at 5-9 but feel he will be available at some point in time.

Expectations here is the ever improving Lacy should get the job done …  early or late - very convincing body punching did it with a decent Robin Reid - should be a repeat with Calzaghe.

Either way, the fare is palatable - as in pleaser - while hyped upcoming PPV teasers Mayweather-Judah in April, and Hoya-Mayorga in May, has me regurgitating over the very thought.    

GEL

2-28-2006