vB Martin
09-26-2004, 03:11 PM
I know you people don't know me, therefore have no reason to respect my opinion, but I offer it anyway.
Like many people here, I live boxing. If there's a fight on, I drop everything to watch it. I don't care who it is. I've been watching boxing like this for more years than I care to admit.
Roy was a shadow of his former self in this fight. I've never been a fan of the man, but I have to admit that.
I also have to admit that I thought Johnson was the perfect, hand-picked comeback opponent for Roy after Tarver had him crawling around on the canvas. I will also admit that picture brought joy to my heart.
I think that in this fight Johnson brought in the perfect plan. Roy has never had power. He has always been a finesse fighter who needed a little room to operate. He won his fights by style, not substance.
Johnson refused to give him that room, and totally exposed Jones's lack of power by walking through everything that Jones threw at him, beating him handily in almost every round by simply pressuring and punching.
Jones had never been fought like that before by someone with the determination to continue it throughout the fight. When he faced it, he folded his tent and gave up.
How much of his lack of heart in this fight was due to reliving Tarvers one-punch KO only Roy knows, and he's too much of an egomaniac to ever acknowledge that it might have had an impact. I do know that he looked very hesitant, even facing someone with less pop than he has.
On to the knockout...
In the 5th round, Johnson caught Roy with an almost identical punch and shook him pretty hard. If Johnson hadn't smothered himself, he might have ended it then.
To end the debate over what knocked Jones out, I just ask you to watch the punch again. It wasn't a devastating punch, but it couldn't have landed more perfectly. The flat of the glove landed perfectly on the right ear. The overpressure in the ear, combined with the snap of the head, definitely had Jones out on his feet, more from loss of equilibrium than from the devastating power of the punch.
When he went down, his head smacked the canvas very hard. This was the coup de grace, the icing on the cake.
Jones might have made it up before the count without that, but he probably wouldn't have survived the round. That kind of punch, right on the ear, takes a while to recover from. His legs would have been shaky, and the fight would probably have been called if Johnson jumped right on him.
Of couse that's all speculation.
Like many people here, I live boxing. If there's a fight on, I drop everything to watch it. I don't care who it is. I've been watching boxing like this for more years than I care to admit.
Roy was a shadow of his former self in this fight. I've never been a fan of the man, but I have to admit that.
I also have to admit that I thought Johnson was the perfect, hand-picked comeback opponent for Roy after Tarver had him crawling around on the canvas. I will also admit that picture brought joy to my heart.
I think that in this fight Johnson brought in the perfect plan. Roy has never had power. He has always been a finesse fighter who needed a little room to operate. He won his fights by style, not substance.
Johnson refused to give him that room, and totally exposed Jones's lack of power by walking through everything that Jones threw at him, beating him handily in almost every round by simply pressuring and punching.
Jones had never been fought like that before by someone with the determination to continue it throughout the fight. When he faced it, he folded his tent and gave up.
How much of his lack of heart in this fight was due to reliving Tarvers one-punch KO only Roy knows, and he's too much of an egomaniac to ever acknowledge that it might have had an impact. I do know that he looked very hesitant, even facing someone with less pop than he has.
On to the knockout...
In the 5th round, Johnson caught Roy with an almost identical punch and shook him pretty hard. If Johnson hadn't smothered himself, he might have ended it then.
To end the debate over what knocked Jones out, I just ask you to watch the punch again. It wasn't a devastating punch, but it couldn't have landed more perfectly. The flat of the glove landed perfectly on the right ear. The overpressure in the ear, combined with the snap of the head, definitely had Jones out on his feet, more from loss of equilibrium than from the devastating power of the punch.
When he went down, his head smacked the canvas very hard. This was the coup de grace, the icing on the cake.
Jones might have made it up before the count without that, but he probably wouldn't have survived the round. That kind of punch, right on the ear, takes a while to recover from. His legs would have been shaky, and the fight would probably have been called if Johnson jumped right on him.
Of couse that's all speculation.