Who could beat Roy Jones at middleweight and light-heavyweight?

[SCtrojansbaby]

Hagler is far too slow and small anybody who thinks that would even be a competitive fight is delusional.

The Roy that dominated Jorge Castro and Bernard Hopkins is good enough to beat anybody at 160 he was already a polished boxer

[GJC]

Hagler is far too slow and small anybody who thinks that would even be a competitive fight is delusional.

The Roy that dominated Jorge Castro and Bernard Hopkins is good enough to beat anybody at 160 he was already a polished boxer

Castro should be the test of any great fighter. I remember how the fat old Duran struggled against him

[IMDAZED]

Hagler is far too slow and small anybody who thinks that would even be a competitive fight is delusional.

The Roy that dominated Jorge Castro and Bernard Hopkins is good enough to beat anybody at 160 he was already a polished boxer

Hagler would've handled the young 160lb Roy quite nicely.

[RubenSonny]

Nigel Benn? C'mon he only has a punchers chance.

[Steak]

I actually always considered Dwight Qawi as quite a challenge for Jones. I cant help but to think about Jones vs Griffin. I feel theres a good chance that Qawi could march him to the ropes like Griffin did and dig to the body, and then catch Roy with a left hook to the head when Roy started his counter flurries off the ropes. That was the key strategy for Griffin, and it worked really well.

Also I think Qawi's defense is clever enough to avoid a lot of Jones' shots. And that the height differential actually favored Griffin, there was less of a target for Roy's quick shots. Griffin completely nullified any sort of jab that Roy had. Qawi was even shorter than Griffin, and had more power and was overall just plain a better fighter.

Just an interesting matchup to me.

[barfly12]

Here are a few at light heavy

Harold Johnson, Ez Charles, Bob Foster, Archie Moore. Lots more.
At middleweight, too many to mention. But start with Robinson, Hearns, and work your way down. He had amazingly fast reflexes and a glass jaw. For a man with fast hands, Jones had no jab at all. That was a basic flaw the great ones would have exploited.

[paulsinghnl]

roy backsstraight up...

leonard uses lateral movement...

leonard could take a punch like a champ....

roy had a suspect chin....

roy had a suspect chin after moving back down from heavyweight so fast, not before that.

the problem with Roy is he never really had to dig that deep to beat anyone like that, he was always more the showman right? so these fights would show up how far higher he could actually go. and i think some of the ppl in this forum would be surprised.. lol.

but for me Hagler with the constant pressure and his hard head (lol), the fight that i'd really wanna see was Ezzard Charles vs Roy Jones Jr.