Some of you guys are absolute clowns. The same handfull of guys who love nothing better than to hate on Roy need to take a step back and find something else to complain about.
Who ever billed that fight as more than it was?
Why the hell would you be watching it, knowing what it was, and then provide the comedy and irony of complaining about it afterwards?
Roy didn't want to go out off those losses, and got back in the ring with a safe top 20 Light Heavyweight to get back in the ring and get his 50th win, because he's a boxer and it's all he's ever know.
What a joke to read the same old insecure haters yapping away.
If you don't like it, ignore it.
Was anyone screaming about Aruthur Williams and Kenny Keene still fighting on the undercard?
Virgil Hill talking about a planned return to the ring?
These guys have been fighters all their lives, and if they want to continue to fight, so be it. No one's obligating you to watch, nevermind dwell on it like it's a fixation.
Again, clowns. :rolleyes:
Roy fought a great fight. Splendid , just a masterful boxer. I take my hat off to him.
Well said!It was good to see some flashes of the old Roy.He fought a good fight.
you know what really burns me up about all these RJJ haters is that if PBF would have been KOed and lost a few times came back and beat a lower ranked fighter everyone would be singing his praises. oh he came out and fought a very good fight after losing. all these PBF cock suckers would be always saying that. nothing has been said when taylor came out and said i fought three stright touogh fights i want a tune up fight. you are a champ act like it. iver agreed with what people said finally a new thread not having floyd in the title. when you know when he does lose and he will people are going to turn on him like they did roy. another thing. let the man be happy. he didnt have to come back and try to win again. alot of people on here said that prince was going to beat roy and they are the same people now saying we all knew roy was going to win. in the first round he really didnt hit roy when he had him on the ropes. if someone is throwing like a kid with downsyndrom i would do the samething. roy knew it was coming. you all have to stop complaining about roy and just look at what he did. he was KOed badbly in 2 of his last 3 loses he could have gone out there with no confidence but he did. its not easy coming back from that. give the man credit bc we all know if this was PBF you all would have his cum all over your faces. roy may not be the 90's roy i didnt think he would he was in his 20's than. but i think his punches are on target and his reflexes were better than the prevouse 3 fights. if doesnt matter what a guy is ranked you still have to land your punches on target like he did to win the fight.
What are you talking about?
He lost to Tarver and Johnson by KO, Griffen by DQ, and Tarver clearly outpointed him in the 3rd fight.
You've got to keep it real. It's stuff like that which fuels the clowns around here.
I kinda went loose there. What I meant bout the tarver fight being a lucky punch was that Tarver had his eyes closed when he caught him. His losses are what you said..
Honestly to me Roy has only lost twice, once by DQ and once by a lucky shot. Though his true record is 50-4-0 (38 kayos.
What are you talking about?
He lost to Tarver and Johnson by KO, Griffen by DQ, and Tarver clearly outpointed him in the 3rd fight.
You've got to keep it real. It's stuff like that which fuels the clowns around here.
Roy was probably the most accurate puncher of all time in my book, but outside of that: He was one of the best finishers that I've ever seen in his younger days.
Or later evidenced by his DQ loss to Griffin, and I don't know what the fuck people are watching. I keep reading "Griffin exposed Roy" "Griffin was winning the fight"
He was getting his ass reamed, he went down to a knee and Roy hit him.
He's set boxrec records that will never be broken. Vinny Paz didn't throw a single punch in one of their rounds during the fight. I dislike how people say Griffin had Jones and all of that other complete shit. Roy kinda got carried away, but it looked like Griffin was getting back up, but went down as soon as Roy took him to the face twice. Honestly to me Roy has only lost twice, once by DQ and once by a lucky shot. Though his true record is 50-4-0 (38 kayos.
Damn RWK that's a bad ass video.
Roy was probably the most accurate puncher of all time in my book, but outside of that: He was one of the best finishers that I've ever seen in his younger days.
Or later evidenced by his DQ loss to Griffin, and I don't know what the fuck people are watching. I keep reading "Griffin exposed Roy" "Griffin was winning the fight"
He was getting his ass reamed, he went down to a knee and Roy hit him.
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Buddy kept saying "Come on man!! STOP HITTING HIM LOW!!!" The ref, some old hic from Idaho took points away and warned him to stop over and over again but would never just DQ the guy.
He should've dqed the guy by the 6th round with all of Badi's Bullshit.
Buddy kept saying "Come on man!! STOP HITTING HIM LOW!!!" The ref, some old hic from Idaho took points away and warned him to stop over and over again but would never just DQ the guy.
I don't think Buddy wanted to be there. There was one round that went by that Buddy never said one word to Prince when he was in the corner.
If Buddy didn't want to be there, he would have been with Stevie Johnston at his fight with Harris.
Buddy's spreading himself around, and was asked by Ajamu to be in his corner. He wanted another crack at being in the winning corner of Roy, only it didn't play out that way.
It was just another notch in a horrid year for Buddy.
I don't think Buddy wanted to be there. There was one round that went by that Buddy never said one word to Prince when he was in the corner.
Actually i just read the following:
At the close of the Vivian Harris-Stevie Johnston fight on HBO Saturday night, commentator Fran Charles announced that Roy Jones Jr. had won a unanimous decision over Prince Badi Ajamu - a PPV event that was televised at the same time. Seconds before his live update, Charles stated: "Buddy McGirt, who is normally in Stevie Johnston's corner since his comeback, he was training Prince Badi Ajamu - taking on Roy Jones Jr. in Boise, Idaho."
It was that comment which prompted McGirt to contact Fightnews to set the record straight. "I'd like to make a clarification," says McGirt of Charles' implication that the trainer chose to work Badi's corner instead of Johnston. "I did not DUMP one fighter to go and be with another fighter! I would never do something like that! I do NOT train Stevie Johnson and I do NOT train Prince Badi Ajamu. I was in Boise because my fighter William Guthrie fought on the undercard for the IBF International cruiserweight title, and he won. After our bout, Prince and his trainer asked me to work his corner and I said, 'no problem!' How can I dump one fighter to be with another... when I don't train either one of them?!"
Much of the confusion stems from McGirt's previous work with Johnston, and Ajamu training at McGirt's gym in Vero Beach during April and May. Ajamu was there because he was Antonio Tarver's chief sparring partner for Tarver's preparation for Bernard Hopkins in June - well before Ajamu got the word that he would face Jones. Since Tarver is trained by McGirt, and Tarver was the first man to starch the daylights out of Jones, it would seem obvious that Ajamu would try to extract every ounce of knowledge from McGirt as humanly possible. McGirt states: "When Prince got the fight with Jones, he and his trainer (Denny Brown) were already here. They would ask for my advice on Jones, and I told them what I thought. When I saw Prince training, I gave him encouragement. But that doesn't make me his trainer! In fact, Prince took his training camp to Idaho three weeks before the fight, while I stayed in Vero to work with Arturo (Gatti) and William."
Regarding Johnston, McGirt explains: "I used to train Stevie up until three months ago, but his manager decided to take him to another gym in Vero. They hired Henry Hill, who worked his corner Saturday night. Henry is Stevie's trainer. Not me. In fact, I haven't heard from Stevie since he left. I only found out about his fight with Vivian Harris when I was in New Jersey for the press conference for Arturo and Carlos Baldomir. When I heard about it, I thought: 'Damn!... Stevie's only got two weeks?!' I like Stevie. He's a hell of a fighter. But in my opinion, you don't take a fight against a top contender on such short notice, because the most you've got to train is a week, or a week and a half. After that you've got the traveling and the press conferences. I think it was a crazy move to fight Vivian. He was getting ready to fight Arnaoutis, so you KNOW Vivian was in tip top shape! And he was coming off a loss, so you know he's extra hungry too. You just don't do something like that, especially when you've come back from recuperating from a serious car accident, like Stevie did. If he had more time to prepare, I think the outcome would have been different."
As one of the most sought after trainers in the sport, jaws dropped wide open in 2003 when McGirt shockingly declined to train 'Iron' Mike Tyson for his fight with Clifford Etienne - simply because Etienne asked him first. McGirt, a former jr. welterweight and welterweight champ himself, is widely known to never leave his Florida gym where he trains a huge stable of amateur and professional fighters. The famed coach concludes: "I don't want people to think I dumped Stevie to work Ajamu's corner, because it isn't so. I would never do something like that to a fighter, and I just want to set the record straight."
well and even though he's had a bad run with his fighters lately, i don't think Ajamu has Buddy McGirt in his corner for nothing..
I don't think Buddy wanted to be there. There was one round that went by that Buddy never said one word to Prince when he was in the corner.
What I really dislike how people want to claim Jones fought a bum on saturday night when Badi is a top 15 fighter in major boxing governing bodies.
well and even though he's had a bad run with his fighters lately, i don't think Ajamu has Buddy McGirt in his corner for nothing..
bottomline, i didn't expect anything more, anything less than i saw saturday night from Jones.. i was pleased (compared to his previous) with his perfomance in all, that's it
There is no such thing as shitty HW fights, unless it's Ruiz vs Fres O. :D
Yeah, you can have Rahman v.s. Barrett back.
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Doesn't make sense to me.
As a fan, the fact he got win #50 and seemed comfortable back in the ring outweighed the fact the fight wasn't competitive.
I don't see how a fan of his could watch and just come away disgusted with the tone of the fight itself.
Especially a guy who lives to watch shitty meaningless Heavyweight fights week after week after week. ;)
Prince wasn't there to fight, he would rather hit Roy in the balls 20 times. The venue was horrible and some drunk ass whore wouldn't stop screaming through the intros. I have to say I was not happy with the whole main event period. There is no such thing as shitty HW fights, unless it's Ruiz vs Fres O. :D
I think the reason I watched it is because I like Roy Jones Jr and I know his career is coming to an end.
Doesn't make sense to me.
As a fan, the fact he got win #50 and seemed comfortable back in the ring outweighed the fact the fight wasn't competitive.
I don't see how a fan of his could watch and just come away disgusted with the tone of the fight itself.
Especially a guy who lives to watch shitty meaningless Heavyweight fights week after week after week. ;)