Roy Jones Jr Or Jake Lamotta?

[Southpaw16BF]

You do not diss Jake Lamotta, when The Great A is around!

[THE REED]

You do not diss Jake Lamotta, when The Great A is around!

You dont diss RJ when The Reed is around

[TheGreatA]

they didn't block with their faces tho did they?

[Southpaw16BF]

You dont diss RJ when The Reed is around

You also don't diss, Carlos Monzon when Joey Giardello is around!

[Toney616]

jake lamotta

What were Lamotto's achievements?

[Snopkins]

Because Hopkins was such a great defensive artist in the early 1990's? He went in face first and slugged, although he was much more cautious against Jones.



LaMotta did certainly have better defense than Jorge Castro who was a human punching bag yet went the distance with Roy Jones.

Hopkins was never a slugger.He wasn't as crafty as he later became,but he was never a brawler.


Hopkins put on one of his greatest ever performances against Mercado in the rematch.Mercado couldn't touch Hopkins but got touched plenty with right hands.



Everyone knows Castro has a great chin.

[AKATheMack]

Because Hopkins was such a great defensive artist in the early 1990's? He went in face first and slugged, although he was much more cautious against Jones.



LaMotta did certainly have better defense than Jorge Castro who was a human punching bag yet went the distance with Roy Jones.

Any of Hopkins fights other than the one with Roy are irrelevant in this discussion. I can understand why you took my post the way you did, but Roy would have more opportunities of landing big shots on LaMotta than he did on BHop. I don't feel Roy could put down LaMotta either instead I see a UD win, I just feel your post would have been better had you omitted BHop from your list of fighters.

[TheGreatA]

Hopkins was never a slugger.He wasn't as crafty as he later became,but he was never a brawler.


Hopkins put on one of his greatest ever performances against Mercado in the rematch.Mercado couldn't touch Hopkins but got touched plenty with right hands.

He was a slugger. I'm not saying that he couldn't box, but he did slug early on in his career. In some fights he would be more cautious, like the Roy Jones fight, but in some fights he was simply a slugger. He was far from the crafty defensive fighter that he later became. I'd say that the first and second Mercado fights were the turning point of his career.

Everyone knows Castro has a great chin.

And everyone knows LaMotta's chin was glass, right? The point is, if Roy didn't deck Castro at middleweight then the chances of him decking a prime LaMotta are slim.

[Joey Giardello]

What were Lamotto's achievements?

He took the unbeaten record of the greatest fighter of all time in ray robinson, was rated the number 1 middleweight for years but couldnt get a title shot, a king without a crown the ring magazine use to call him, even when he was still just past his prime he had enough left to stop french harman and all time great himself marcel cerden to finally become middleweight champion.

[Toney616]

He took the unbeaten record of the greatest fighter of all time in ray robinson, was rated the number 1 middleweight for years but couldnt get a title shot, a king without a crown the ring magazine use to call him, even when he was still just past his prime he had enough left to stop french harman and all time great himself marcel cerden to finally become middleweight champion.

Thanks for replying. I havent seen any of his fights. Which ones would you recommend?