Prime Roy Jones beats every LHW in history

[J23]

I don't see any light heavyweight beating him, in his prime. The man was simply untouchable and unbeatable.

With all due respect, Charles, Moore, Tunney, Fitzsimmons, Spinks and Foster wouldn't be able to beat Jones.

[Fighting Marine]

Archie Moore would've knocked him clean out

[mickey malone]

I don't see any light heavyweight beating him, in his prime. The man was simply untouchable and unbeatable.

With all due respect, Charles, Moore, Tunney, Fitzsimmons, Spinks and Foster wouldn't be able to beat Jones.

It's difficult to say, because he simply didn't engage anyone of that calibre throughout either of his 2 spells in the division.. Ok, the 2nd spell shouldn't be included, but it did expose his fragile chin, which i believe was always there, to be tested, but there wern't any Moore's, Foster's etc, to test it out
During his 1st spell, he was great at hitting without being hit, but i believe had he fought anyone good enough to connect, i can't see him being able to recover..

Over 12 rounds, he stands a very good chance against all the above, but over 15, I think he'd get stopped by Moore, Charles, Foster, Spinks and Tunney..
Fitzsimmons, Loughran and Conn, i'd call as 50/50 fights..

Summing up, i'd rank RJJ as a top 10 ATG at LHW, but not quite as highly as you do..

[THE REED]

ugh............

[wmute]

Jones is a tough fight for anyone, but I can't see him beating Charles and Spinks.

[Thread Stealer]

I would make him a slight underdog against both Spinks and Foster.

I'm not really sure how I see him doing against the likes of Conn, Moore, and Charles.

[BattlingNelson]

Jones had all the skills to beat anybody in the history of the division. Unfortunately he didn't possess a chin to complement those skills. This means to me that Jones could not walk through all the lightheavies without taking a loss or two. Jones would be in danger whenever he faced a guys with a sufficient wallop like Spinks, Foster, Charles, Moore etc.

[roxy]

I may not know much about alot of the guy discussed in this section, but I do know alot about Jones. He was very good but there are several great light heavies that possibly could have beat him. I don't think Jones Jr's best weight was light heavy, he was not a big light heavywt. He was better at super middleweight and middleweight if you ask me.
Now I do think at super middleweight he could have beaten every supermiddleweight but even at middleweight there are so many great fighters and that division has a long history.

[bojangles1987]

There are very big ATG light heavyweights who would be able to rough Roy up. Now if we were talking middleweights or super middleweights, there is more of a case.

[JAB5239]

I don't see any light heavyweight beating him, in his prime. The man was simply untouchable and unbeatable.

With all due respect, Charles, Moore, Tunney, Fitzsimmons, Spinks and Foster wouldn't be able to beat Jones.

I'd pick Charles, Tunney, Foster and Spinks over him and give Conn, Fitzsimmons and Moore a good shot at beating him. Im sure there are others I will think of later.