Roy Jones= Irrelevant to Boxing

What a Beautiful Right Hook Counter when he was going back almost KOed Jones. One of the best punches ive ever seen thrown. Tarver has some of the best hook punching technique in the business is why. when he throws that power left hook it's seamless...

Well, the header of the thread is pretty stupid, but in the current context, yeah, Roy will never win another belt. He finally admits he got beat by Tarver, but says he'll be back. For what? To gut it out against a up and comer who needs his scalp to pad his record? It's a shame Tarver didn't go after him harder and KO him early. Maybe that would have retired him. Roy should go consult with Holy for his career future.

just give tarver a credit.larry! heheehe

i think rjj is already done with the sport but he will not be forgotten that easily

People can say that RJJ is NOW history but IRRELEVANT? :D

RJJ fought for 17 years, moved up to heavyweight, had to lose 25 pounds of muscle...Tarver waited like a lil bitch for RJJ to come back all weak and shit... He still couldn't managed to beat him in the 1st fight. hahahahahaahahahaah I was going to come in here and say that, as much as I disliked him, he was far from irrelevant to boxing, but I can't help but laugh at this statement. Tarver spent YEARS hounding Roy for a fight, but Roy chose to go to HW for the bigger money instead. Only when he realized that he would have to defend his belt against real heavyweights who could punch and walk though his best punches did he decide to come down for the Tarver fight.

Tarver 2, Jones 1 End of story Tarver beat all of their common opponents where Roy never beat Johnson. Tarver is the better man at the end of the day. Roy is FINISHED, and I am enjoying every minute of this night. I don't even want to go to sleep, I'm loving it so much. This night will forever remain one of the greatest nights in boxing history. That is true to an extent...it took Tarver two times before he beat Eric Harding. He lost the first time by UD. Roy beat harding the first time they fought by KO. Roy has only fought Johnson once. Hopefully it will remain that way.

You're throwing out speculative opinions, I'm throwing out facts. READ THIS FUCKING LINE: Tarver 2, Jones 1 End of story. RJJ fought for 17 years, moved up to heavyweight, had to lose 25 pounds of muscle...Tarver waited like a lil bitch for RJJ to come back all weak and shit... He still couldn't managed to beat him in the 1st fight.

Jones has been fight for 17 years... Tarver has been fighting for like 7 years... The Jones before moving up to HW would have KO'd Tarver.. If Tarver couldn't even beat a Jones that fought him in the first fight, he wouldn't stand a chance against him in his prime.. You're retarded... I guess Trevor Berbick is better than Ali? Kevin McBride is better than Tyson? You're throwing out speculative opinions, I'm throwing out facts. READ THIS FUCKING LINE: Tarver 2, Jones 1 End of story.

Tarver 2, Jones 1 End of story Tarver beat all of their common opponents where Roy never beat Johnson. Tarver is the better man at the end of the day. Roy is FINISHED, and I am enjoying every minute of this night. I don't even want to go to sleep, I'm loving it so much. This night will forever remain one of the greatest nights in boxing history. Jones has been fight for 17 years... Tarver has been fighting for like 7 years... The Jones before moving up to HW would have KO'd Tarver.. If Tarver couldn't even beat a Jones that fought him in the first fight, he wouldn't stand a chance against him in his prime.. You're retarded... I guess Trevor Berbick is better than Ali? Kevin McBride is better than Tyson?

Tarver 2, Jones 1 End of story Tarver beat all of their common opponents where Roy never beat Johnson. Tarver is the better man at the end of the day. Roy is FINISHED, and I am enjoying every minute of this night. I don't even want to go to sleep, I'm loving it so much. This night will forever remain one of the greatest nights in boxing history.

Tarver is better than RJJ right now, no question, but Tarver is not great no matter how you put it.

Roy Jones Jr will never fight in another big fight. Antonio Tarver is better than Roy Jones Jr. No matter how any of you want to spin it, you can't deny it.

A huge part of Roy's power came from his quickness: the way he used to be able to pivot to deliver a punch (Serious students of the fight game share the opinion that much of punching power comes all the way from the legs, i.e., stance, feet-planting and pivot). Since he lost a part of that quickness to age, he lost much of the sting in his punches. There was that one that hit Tarver on the side of the face in..was it the 7th? But it didn't bother Antonio. Moreover, I remember vividly a Roy JOnes Jr. who had no trouble hitting a foe from all angles and from every imaginable stance, and some. The Roy that was just seen appeared to have trouble reaching Antonio whenever the latter started backing up. (Isn't it so that the Jones' highlights of the fight involved Jones with his back to the ropes and not in the middle of the ring where most of Roy's previous highlights were?) Much credit has to be given to Tarver's new-found work ethic (he did not slack in the middler rounds as he was prone to in previous outings) that the result was well deserved by Antonio. I take nothing from his victory. It was even astonishing why he backed up after putting Roy in deep trouble in the 11th and even said something to the ref as they clinched and the round came to a close (what was it that he said? was he begging the ref to stop the fight?) Did the Leavander incident hover in the back of his mind? Just wondering...

Tarver is the better man. No excuses. Roy is not in Tarver's league. How could you say Roy is not is Tarver's league. Who was Tarver before he fought RJJ? RJJ's name has been around for the past 15 years and it will go down in history as one of the best. Tarver has been mentioned over the past 3 or 4 years and is not even close to being mentioned as one of the greatest fighters of all time. His name will be like Buster Douglas's name. He'll be known as the man that beat RJJ and it will end there. I just got through watching the fight and I'll have to tell you, Tarver in no way looked like a great fighter. I really dislike RJJ. His cockiness is beyond annoying. He lost this fight hands down. But, there were times throughout this fight that Roy made things look easy. He was just too damn scared to finish it off and the 11th round is the best example of why he was scared. He knew one punch could end it. To sum this up, it is absurd to say that Roy is not in Tarver's league. Tarver has no league. He is simply the man who beat Roy.

I agree. My dad definately needs some respect now. What a Beautiful Right Hook Counter when he was going back almost KOed Jones. One of the best punches ive ever seen thrown.

Your DAD needs to get some respect on this site. People always talk shit about Tarver. He just beat Jones for the second time, in my opinion he won the first fight too. So I have Tarver winning all 3 fights against Jones. I agree. My dad definately needs some respect now.

Your DAD needs to get some respect on this site. People always talk shit about Tarver. He just beat Jones for the second time, in my opinion he won the first fight too. So I have Tarver winning all 3 fights against Jones. its not that i dont respect tarver as a fighter. its just i dont see him as a great fighter just cuz he can beat roy jones . if you fight a long time like roy has you will run into someone you cant beat marciano would have too

If Roy Jones is irrelevant to boxing, what does that make Tarver? Tarver wont even get a footnote in boxing history. agree tarver is not great just cuz he beat jones. so what leon spinks and berbick beat ali. jimmy young beat a prime foreman, mcCall beat lewis, buster beat tyson . so are thay great fighters? no not by a long shot. tarver has beat only one great fighter so far. its just a bad match up for jones. jones should have allways been a supermiddle.let tarver fight james toney or someone bigger than himself as jones has done for the last 9 years . give tarver hopkins or even ruiz if he can beat all them then yes he is great and better then roy jones

this is the undisputable fact of the matter. To anybody still on Roy's nuts, read what JonL said about 100 times and you'll wake up, realizing how retarded you were. I am not a bandwagon jumper, I am a real Roy Jones Jr. fan. And to Tarver Is My Dad, I am disgusted that you say that. Any knowledgable boxing fans knows that Roy Jones is still an all time great. And HE DID MORE FOR BOXING THAN TARVER HAS OR WILL EVER DO!