Maybe you didn't like seeing Joe do it....but Roy Jones absolutely deserved it. He mocked and taunted overmatched foes throughout his career. That's no different than taunting a great past his best. I know poor Richard Hall didn't need Roy to windmill his right hand before blasting the near-dead man for the 1000th time with it....but Roy did it anyway.
I on the other hand, was elated when Douglas beat the crap out of Tyson. Before that fight I was on me "Pat Malone" in my parts, everybody was saying that Mike was not only invincible, but THE GREATEST FIGHTER OF ALL TIMES. I didn't think so, and I shouted it from the rooftops, I WAS LAUGHED AT !!!!!!!, after the Douglas fight people looked at me in a different way. They couldn't believe that I (of all people) was right !!!VINDICATION !!!!!!
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Maybe you didn't like seeing Joe do it....but Roy Jones absolutely deserved it. He mocked and taunted overmatched foes throughout his career. That's no different than taunting a great past his best. I know poor Richard Hall didn't need Roy to windmill his right hand before blasting the near-dead man for the 1000th time with it....but Roy did it anyway.
If Roy had been humiliated like that by a young up and comer looking to make a name off his reputation I would have enjoyed watching the karmic pay-back.
But Calzaghe, after beating B-Hop had put himself in a position where he could pick and choose his own opponent and have the world watch him. And he chose a washed up RJJ. And, apart from the early knockdown, he dominated and humiliated him in a horribly distasteful farce of a fight. And then he retired. That was his final act, his swansong, his legacy. Is that really how he wanted to go out? Beating on and clowning a broken old man?
If Roy had been humiliated like that by a young up and comer looking to make a name off his reputation I would have enjoyed watching the karmic pay-back.
But Calzaghe, after beating B-Hop had put himself in a position where he could pick and choose his own opponent and have the world watch him. And he chose a washed up RJJ. And, apart from the early knockdown, he dominated and humiliated him in a horribly distasteful farce of a fight. And then he retired. That was his final act, his swansong, his legacy. Is that really how he wanted to go out? Beating on and clowning a broken old man?
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