A LHW Prime Michael Spinks vs a LHW Prime Roy Jones Jr (POLL)

once antonio tarver, a good rangy boxer with a ko punch, realized that all he had to do was jab over roy jones underdeveloped jab, fight on the backfoot and make roy jones come to him, it was good night...same thing, when lou del valle, got the knockdown on roy jones, except lou del valle, gave roy jones, too much respect...being that roy jones, is an unorthodox fighter, i'll give him 9 rounds, before the Jinx puts him to sleep...

The Spinks Jinx would put Jones Jnr to sleep before the 6th round, Jones whilst being the better fighter p4p would not be able to keep such a bigger, quick, skilled and powerful fighter off as Spinks. I honestly think it would be totally onesided and Jones would take a brutal beating.

Ya it's tough. Honestly some of these former LHW'S would have raped a lot of the SMW'S fighting today .Ya I know, 175 is naturally bigger lol. But if the likes of Moorer or Spinks was around today and could 're hydrate', I can see them making 168 weight ins and come fight night comfortably around 177ish. Even Matthew Muhammad could probably brutalize Froch. could you imagine what moorer would do today lol ... it would be brutal.

difficult indeed. i'd go with rjj though

I voted for I don't know ... pretty lame huh? But really i couldn't put a solid prediction down for either guy both are fantastic and there are reasons why both could win, I think I favor Spinks but Roy was damn good at his best so ...

12 Round Fight http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=1286&cat=boxer http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=1758&cat=boxer For me i'am edging toward Spinks, In his prime Spinks was unreal ruled the LHW division with an iron fist and then goes up to heavy and goes right to the undisputed champ and beats him twice,but the thing is jones only really struggled at lhw with slippery southpaws something spinks weren't, but still think Spinks would turned Jones over maybe UD/MD decision! They robbed Larry Holmes in his fights with Spinks. :grumpy:

I think any great light heavyweight with power would beat Roy. What allowed Roy to get away with all that shit what his Power. Fighter respected his Power. I'll admit i only seen a couple of Spinks fight, 1 at light heavyweight and other best of fights. And from what i seen Spinks likes to charge forward on his opponet with great pressure and he had great power. Roy likes to allow fighters corner him or take him to the ropes. But against a puncher and pressure fighter like Spinks that equarls danger zone. I got Spinks winning this one. I think at this weight Roy doesn't have the power advantage against big light heavyweights like Spinks. it wasnt roys power that scared other fighters, it was his speed... roys speed = power it was the fact he could hit you, and you wouldnt see it coming.. thats when you get knocked out the fact he could considerably beat you to the punch all night long.. and when you threw your punches, you hit nothing but air, and then got countered again it wasnt the power... it how fast he could hit you, and from angles you couldnt see

come on ppl keep this poll going!

Good luck having Spinks win this poll. People have Jones beating Ali, Marciano, Tua, its crazy. Spinks was an excellent fighter with power that would greatly worry Jones, I see it being a close fight for the first few rounds but Spinks eventually tags Jones' chin and gets him out of there. show me a poll where ppl have him beating ali? and jones would EASILY handle marciano. marciano is really overrated.

prime mw jones, prime smw jones, prime lhw jones are all unbeatable.

Good luck having Spinks win this poll. People have Jones beating Ali, Marciano, Tua, its crazy. Spinks was an excellent fighter with power that would greatly worry Jones, I see it being a close fight for the first few rounds but Spinks eventually tags Jones' chin and gets him out of there.

I think any great light heavyweight with power would beat Roy. What allowed Roy to get away with all that shit what his Power. Fighter respected his Power. I'll admit i only seen a couple of Spinks fight, 1 at light heavyweight and other best of fights. And from what i seen Spinks likes to charge forward on his opponet with great pressure and he had great power. Roy likes to allow fighters corner him or take him to the ropes. But against a puncher and pressure fighter like Spinks that equarls danger zone. I got Spinks winning this one. I think at this weight Roy doesn't have the power advantage against big light heavyweights like Spinks.

it wouldnt be unheard of for either one of them to win....

I voted for Spinks but thinking about it I would have to say Jones' speed would have given him a UD

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39086000/jpg/_39086320_roy_montell.jpg http://www.sloneart.com/gallery/drawings/michaelspinks.jpg

come on keep the votes up!

I got Jones in this one. When its all said and done I just think he was more talented a fighter than Spinks was.

I'm edging towards Spinks as well, he had the awkward style to beat Jones, Spinks by close but clear decision.

if not for Tyson, IMHO Spinks could have done a lot better at HW ...