Roy Jones Jr. knows more about boxing than ANYONE

Just by comparing his commentating on HBO broadcasts to Emanuel Steward's (the next brightest guy), it isn't even close. Roy knows everything about this sport when is watching it unfold before his eyes. As long as he isn't discussing himself, I would talk to him about boxing before anyone else in the history of the sport. Just watch the telecast for Klitschko-Brewster from 2004. It's as if the fight is a movie and Roy has written the script. He gives EVERY FREAKING DETAIL before it happens. He either has a crystal ball when he commentates or he really is the smartest guy out there. If that's not enough, watch Trinidad-Mayorga or even Hopkins-Allen from the same year. He calls all knockdowns before they happen and the punch that will cause them. You might say that's no big deal but until another commentator does it, it is to me. I can't believe HBO stopped having him do the honors.emanuel steward is a great trainer, but when it comes to floyd mayweather jr fights, he calls his fights like he's larry merchant's puppet, and he predicts floyd's fights wrong a lot also. he knows about boxing, no doubt, but a bright commentator isn't a puppet, and steward is one imo. roy is good though.

I never liked Jones a commentataor, he talked about himself to often and played sides in fights. His technical analysise wern't any better or worse than Stewart's or Atlas or any of these guys.

roy is the best, in anything he does....

Lennox Lewis is terrible as a commentator. Manny talks too boring, is biased but has knowledge. Roy was good, and it was always a challenge to understand his dialect :) that was his one drawback as a commentator.

Bullshit about Klit-Brew, that's when he made an utter fool of himself. he was saying Brewster was finished, for one. Wrong. Then he said Klitschko should retire (notice since then he's been one of the best fighters in any division, and by far the best at HW?). Klit got him with a classy pwnage when he said "during the Brewster fight someone questioned my chin but that fighter then got knocked out." Manny Steward > Roy Jones > Lennox Lewis His chin got questioned because his chin is questionable AND he got knocked out. Roy never said his chin wasnt questionable, Roy was simply stating facts. And Brewster was on the brink of being done, he was getting tagged left and right until Wlads shitty conditioning came back to bite him in the ass. Roy is the best HBO has ever had.

Correct me if im wrong, but i think HBO stopped having hime because he started fighting again, and wanted to concentrate soley on his newer career

larry merchant should def. stay.....roy jones jr was good at it too but idk what happened.........the best team was larry, jim and george classic

My dream commentating crew would be Foreman, Jones and Atlas. I think they all know their shit inside and out. Also I laugh my ass off every time Lewis says "absolutely" or "definitely". So if he left I would sorta miss that though.

Roy was largely incomprehensible and seemed to always be on the verge of saying "...but not as powerful|good|fast|tough|good-looking|smooth|technical as me" whenever he commented on a boxer's qualities. Steward is boring and surprisingly devoid of insight. Lennox Lewis has the charisma of a plate of over-cooked brussel sprouts. Teddy Atlas is remarkably insightful and also quite entertaining. He should be doing it more frequently. George Foreman was an awesome commentator and I always enjoyed his insights. Iceman Scully was also an excellent and informed commentator. Not sure why he's still not doing it... perhaps not a big enough "name" I'd actually like to see Tyson as a commentator. His voice is a bit weird but his knowledge of boxing history is pretty amazing and he'd bring some interest to the sport. Of course, it would mean he'd have to not be crazy which seems sadly beyond his ability, but otherwise he'd be great at it...

Wouldnt it be funny to have James Toney and Larry Merchant working side by side? that would be so awesome. I'd miss the fights entirely because I'd be on the floor laughing. no way anybody would ever pick Toney up the way he cusses

Lennox Lewis is terrible as a commentator. Manny talks too boring, is biased but has knowledge. Roy was good, and it was always a challenge to understand his dialect :)

The respectable thing about Atlas is that he genuinely seems concerned about every fighter who enters the ring. I thought it was very respectable how he was screaming into the ring for someone to stop the Quiles/Campbell fight. that was an awful job by everyone involved that night. That's the type of fight that gets people killed.

Sorry, but anybody dumb enough to pick DLH over Mayweather doesn't deserve my attention because they obviously no less about the sport.

He is definitely better than Lennox, absolutely.

I think the most insightful boxing commentator is teddy atlas. I dont know why HBO didnt hire him. He is fun to listen to when he get angry too. I was watching the Agustus vs Burton fight last night. Boy did Teddy flip out when the results where anounced. you can't be serious. Teddy is a terrible commentator. he plays both sides of the fence on absolutely everything. ask him for a prediction NOWADAYS and he says why both guys CAN win, not who will win. and of course, when he actually makes the prediction it's pathetic: DLH and Judah over Mayweather???? and this guy is called an expert? why, I have no idea.

The one thing that I miss that Lennox Lewis doesn't do, but Foreman and Jones both did a little, is when one of the other commentators disagrees with something they say they would poke at the fact that Lampley and Merchant have never been in the ring.

I tell it like it is always. no you do not, but you tell it like you see it at least. good k for this one.

Roy was unwilling to prep with HBO crew Thurs-Sat, only Fri and Sat. So, they got rid of him. Their loss really. Or maybe they got tired of Roy saying how the fight would end 5 rounds before it did. Audiences might start to catch on to that. Then again, it could turn out to be an Ali type of thing where people would tune in just to see if he knocked the guy out when he predicted he would. In that case, HBO has missed out by not keeping Roy.

Roy was unwilling to prep with HBO crew Thurs-Sat, only Fri and Sat. So, they got rid of him. Their loss really.

Why did they end up firing him? I always liked his commentating.