Roy Jones is easily the better boxer. People will forever argue about who had the better skills and fought the better opponents but I'll just stick to the facts.
- More of Roy Jones opponents went on to win championships after he beat them (Bernard Hopkins, James Toney, Clinton Woods, Julio Gonzalez, John Ruiz). Floyd's opponents were either way too green or were on the tail-end of their boxing careers
- Roy Jones has yet to show a single sign of ever getting hurt, or close to losing a fight until he was 35 when he barely beat Tarver and got knocked out in the rematch. Jones has a love and respect for the sport. Mayweather retired at 33 after massing up large amounts of cash. Mayweather has also came close to losing against a prime Castillo (a fight I think he clearly lost). Mayweather has also been stunned on several occasions.
- Roy won in a much more impressive and devastating fashion than Floyd and he did it against better opponents. Remember when he mimicked a chicken and knocked James Toney into the ropes? I'd love to see Floyd open up his guard for once and try that on another hall-of-famer. Roy left no doubt who won the fight. Floyd loves to bend the rules by using his forearms, turning away from his opponent, and dipping so low that his opponents accidentally hit him low or in the back of the head.
- Roy fought the better ranked opponents. Go to boxrec.com and you'll see that Mayweather didn't face the best of the welterweights. Zab Judah was a has-been who lost his title to Baldimir. He beat the best Junior Welterweight(Ricky Hatton) at Welterweight.
- Roy was also the first fighter and perhaps only fighter to go through an entire round without getting hit by a punch. So who's defense is better now?
- Roy never got hurt or close to losing a fight during his prime. So who's got the better boxing style after all or was Roy that much more athletic?
- Many observers have also considered Roy Jones to still have faster handspeed than mayweather. Mayweather's speed is mostly in his body.
In the end, Floyd won boring unimpressive fights against lackluster competition. Even against inferior fighters, he showed numerous flaws and got hit with big clean shots. Floyd may have won many fights but he did lose numerous rounds against Castillo, Judah, and De La Hoya where Roy hardly ever loses a clear round (in his prime).
very well put good sir, all of roy's wins have been entertaining ALL of them. If you ordered a Roy Jones Jr ppv you will get your moneys worth. Floyd has robbed us of our money so many times with his no risk take the high road victories especially over baldomir. Take nothing away from Mawyeather, but Jones Jr is an all time great who fought everyone at their best, started his career in may of 1989 at 154 and won a heavyweight title in march of 2003!! a career that will span into 4 decades come january he is a true ATG.
I agree 110% with your analogy. Floyd always has problems with southpaws, even his father knows this. Early in his career it is rumored that Floyd Sr called Roger from jail screaming at him for putting him in a fight with a southpaw. Now don't quote me on that its something I have heard and read before. Google it. Now Judah clearly hurt Mayweather, outclassed him for the first few rounds and then if you follow Judah you will see that it was not the counter punches that got him to stop fighting it was just plain ole Judah. Since when has he ever given 100% of himself other than the first 5 rounds max of a fight. It is very typical so no Floyd does not deserve that credit, to beat Judah simply just weather the storm, maintain your composure and let it happen. When Mayweather fought Corley he was visibly hurt as well and it was a competitive fight but at the same time Corley is not on the skill level of Judah. Both southpaws who faced Mayweather and the only two to ever visibly hurt him but one who didn't posses the talent to pursue and the other didn't posses the passion and desire to pursue. Manny Pacquiao is a relentless warrior who will continue to pursue Floyd even if he is behind all 12 rounds on the cards and will continue to throw with power, speed and a fire that I have not seen in that ring since a young Mike Tyson. Manny Pacquiao is nothing but trouble for Floyd. Styles make fights and even though I believe Floyd will paint him with punches as well, I definitely see Pacquiao coming out the victor, and we will be forced to find out if Floyd has the heart of a great fighter.
I think it was mis quoted, I believe he said something along the lines of "after all the greif she put me through I wish I did rape her" . . . something similar to that . . . thats normal, thats like the guy who gets accused of cheating by his g/f then when they break up he says "man after all that bull**** I shouldve cheated after all" ... lol