Straight up Roy Jones is faster, the guy was grease lightning, could leap in and throw combinations from freakish angles. Toney couldn't see them coming.
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Floyd has never ripped off the combos that Roy ripped off like vs Tony Thornton, Toney, Paz, etc. Roy is faster, straight up and p4p. That's no knock on Floyd but Roy is just faster.
Most accept that young 19-20 yr old Hector Camacho had the fastest, quickest hand and footspeed ever. Even Ray Leonard admitted as much back when Ray was still the unretired headliner.
Floyd punches with a lot of combos so he might look faster. But roy had amazing reflexes. The dude made a led left hook look like a jab. Remember when he knock out hill with his golves behind his back? No ones faster then roy period.
Ain't no tellin'. As discussed before in another thread
Floyd looks faster, because he is more twitchy with his speed while Jones is more smooth with his.....there's no telling. End of thread.
Have you seen them fight? Put it this way...Floyd looks fast vs Gatti and Castillo...Roy looks inhuman vs Toney and Hopkins.
I would say Jones is faster but to say Mayweather only looks fast against slow fighters is crazy. Jones has the edge in speed but it wouldn't be that big of a margin.
Its definitely Floyd but the power disparity is huge. Different weights of course. They are hard to compare unless you use them compared to their opponents and then they become somewhat similar
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